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kolkhoz: see collective farm collective farm, an agricultural production unit including a number of farm households or villages working together under state control. The description of the collective farm has varied with time and place. ..... Click the link for more information. . |
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Their kolkhoz eventually joined with another, known as Vanguard. I don't share the author's discreet enthusiasm for the Kolkhoz pastorales of Arkadi Plastov, and I wish that he'd told us more about the weirdly expressionist Vasili Svarog, but it is satisfying to learn that two other SR mannerists, Aleksandr Deineka and Yuri Pimenov, had both been "formalist realists" in the 1920s - inspired by machines, mass-production, and industrial architecture to develop an aesthetic language of simplified geometric forms in a stylized fiat space. Peasant strategies included passive resistance, through foot-dragging and pilfering; passive accommodation, through "acceptance, however grudging, of the new rules of the game associated with the kolkhoz, and an effort to use them to one's own best advantage" (p. |
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