kulak

1. (historical) A prosperous peasant in the Russian Empire or the Soviet Union, who owned land and could hire workers.Examples: "The “internal organs,” as the CHEKA and the GPU and the KGB used to style themselves, were asked to police the mind for heresy as much as to torture kulaks to relinquish the food they withheld from the cities."; "We are the “upper middle class”, the new kulaks whose antisocial self-interest and lack of submission to the aims of the revolutionary vanguard must be extinguished."Synonyms: kurkulhistorical