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kulak

ku·lak [ koo lk, koo lák ] (plural ku·laks)


noun 
Definition:
 
Russian landowning peasant: a wealthy landowning peasant in Russia during the time between the emancipation of the serfs and the Stalinist era

[Late 19th century. Via Russian, "fist, tight-fisted person" < Turkic ḳol "hand"]
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