dekulakize

Etymology

Calque of Russian раскула́чить (raskuláčitʹ), from кула́к (kulák, “wealthy peasant”). Morphologically de- +‎ kulak +‎ -ize.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /dɪˈkuːlakaɪz/

Verb

dekulakize (third-person singular simple present dekulakizes, present participle dekulakizing, simple past and past participle dekulakized)

1. (historical) To collectivize the property of a kulak (a wealthy peasant) (usually applied to peasants and farmers in the Soviet Union and communistic Eastern Europe) [since 20th c.]
   • 1999, Viola Lynne, Peasant Rebels Under Stalin‎, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 86:

     More than one million peasant families—five million people, at least— were dekulakized during collectivization.