artel
Americannoun
noun
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(in the former Soviet Union) a cooperative union or organization, esp of producers, such as peasants
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(in prerevolutionary Russia) a quasi-cooperative association of people engaged in the same activity
Etymology
Origin of artel
1880–85; < Russian artél ', perhaps ultimately < a derivative of Turkic ort- middle (compare Turkish ortak partner, ortaklιk association), though identity of suffixed element(s) unclear
Example Sentences
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Even lower was the number of herders interested in joining an artel or a kolkhoz.
From The New Yorker • Aug. 15, 2019
Each artel would become a kolkhoz, or collective farm, where workers owned their means of production, and eventually a sovkhoz, the state farm, with centralized ownership and quotas.
From The New Yorker • Aug. 15, 2019
Much more common is the artel, a modified collective farm existing in several types which have in common the principle that certain property is not shared.
From Time Magazine Archive
Today in Russia the commune is vanishing as peasants continue to demand and get more and more capitalistic types of artel.
From Time Magazine Archive
The "artel" requires it, and, in case of disobedience, woe to the offender!
From The House of the Dead or Prison Life in Siberia with an introduction by Julius Bramont by Dostoyevsky, Fyodor
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