dekulakization means the communist repression of the kulaks (prosperous peasants and farmers) in the Soviet Union and communistic Eastern Europe. Lexicurio rates it Rare gem — a strength score of 84 out of 100.
Why “dekulakization” is a great word
DEKULAKIZATION — [Noun] The Soviet campaign to eliminate the kulak class through expropriation, deportation, and execution during the forced collectivization of agriculture. From the English prefix de- (indicating removal or reversal) + Russian kulak (literally "fist," used to denote a prosperous peasant) + the suffix -ization (denoting a process). Unlike "collectivization," which names the structural goal of consolidating farms, or "purge," a broad term for political cleansing, dekulakization was the specific, brutal machinery of class annihilation. It is the predawn inventory of a single cow, the frost-etched slats of a cattle car moving east, and the bureaucratic checkmark beside a name on a list—the systematic unfisting of a million hands to make way for an abstraction.
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- The communist repression of the kulaks (prosperous peasants and farmers) in the Soviet Union and communistic Eastern Europe.