kolkhoz
UK[ˈkɒlkɒz]US[ˈkoʊlkɑːz]
n
A collective farm in the former Soviet Union.
Etymology
The term 'kolkhoz' entered English as a direct borrowing from Russian советского периода (of the Soviet period). It is a contraction of the Russian phrase "коллективное хозяйство" (kollektivnoye khozyaystvo), meaning "collective farm" or "collective economy." The word encapsulates a specific socio-economic institution central to Soviet agricultural policy from the late 1920s onward. As a loanword, its journey into English reflects the need for a precise term to describe this foreign concept during periods of political and historical discourse, particularly during the Cold War era.
Analysis
This word is a direct loanword from Russian, adopted as a single lexical unit into English. It is not productively segmented using English morphemes.
Examples
After the revolution, the peasant's land was consolidated into a large kolkhoz.
The novel depicts the harsh daily life on a Soviet kolkhoz in the 1930s.
Historians study the kolkhoz system to understand centralized agricultural planning.