collective farm
noun
: a farm especially in a Communist country formed from many small holdings collected into a single unit for joint operation under governmental supervision
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During Soviet times, the standard uniform for women working in factories and on collective farms included a headscarf to adhere to health and safety requirements.
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Rosemary Feitelberg, Footwear News, 4 June 2026
When Ratmansky was the director of the Bolshoi Ballet in the early 2000s, the company toured to New York with his 2003 ballet The Bright Stream, a comic work set on a collective farm in Russia in the 1930s with a score by Shostakovich.
—Lauren Kane, The New York Review of Books, 7 Mar. 2026
Before the evacuation, the village was part of the collective farm Uskhod (East).
—Franziska Exeler, The Dial, 18 Feb. 2025
Lukashenko, a 70-year-old former Soviet collective farm boss, survived the scare in 2020 in part thanks to his longtime ally Russian President Vladimir Putin, whose support has become existential for the Belarusian regime.
—Christian Edwards, CNN, 26 Jan. 2025
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Rosemary Feitelberg, Footwear News, 4 June 2026
When Ratmansky was the director of the Bolshoi Ballet in the early 2000s, the company toured to New York with his 2003 ballet The Bright Stream, a comic work set on a collective farm in Russia in the 1930s with a score by Shostakovich.
—Lauren Kane, The New York Review of Books, 7 Mar. 2026
Before the evacuation, the village was part of the collective farm Uskhod (East).
—Franziska Exeler, The Dial, 18 Feb. 2025
Lukashenko, a 70-year-old former Soviet collective farm boss, survived the scare in 2020 in part thanks to his longtime ally Russian President Vladimir Putin, whose support has become existential for the Belarusian regime.
—Christian Edwards, CNN, 26 Jan. 2025
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