Sentence examples for wealthy peasant from inspiring English sources

One example is the story of Ferondo, a wealthy peasant.

The family were kulaks, relatively wealthy peasant farmers who were persecuted as class enemies under the Bolsheviks and again under Stalin.

In Nazi Germany and Stalin's Soviet Union, whole classes of people, such as the Jews and the kulaks (wealthy peasant farmers) respectively, were singled out for persecution and extinction.

In wealthy peasant and landowner households and in urban middle-class families, the practice of keeping women in seclusion (purdah) is still common; on the rare occasions on which women set foot outside their houses, they must be veiled.

He was expelled, however, probably because his widowed mother was a kulak, or member of the wealthy peasant class who were treated as enemies of the state by the communist government.

His great-grandfather was a Kazakh kulak ("wealthy peasant"), exiled four different times.

With their social organization shattered during the Mfecane, the Mfengu were receptive from an early date to Christianity and Western education, and in the 19th century many became wealthy peasant-farmers, providing some of the first Western-type political leaders among Cape Africans.

Think 'peasant salad with duck' at £8 a plate (wealthy peasants).

In 1928 the regime introduced special measures against the kulaks (arbitrarily defined "wealthy" peasants).

Victims were from all levels of society including leading Bolsheviks, party officials, army officers, "dangerous ethnic elements" and wealthy peasants.

As Joseph Stalin consolidated his power and directed the modernization of the Soviet Union, the OGPU implemented the forced collectivization of agriculture and the deportation of the kulaks (wealthy peasants) and staged show trials of "enemies of the people".