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volost
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volost [ˈvəʊlɒst]
n
1. (Historical Terms) (Government, Politics & Diplomacy) (in the former Soviet Union) a rural soviet
2. (Historical Terms) (Social Science / Human Geography) (in tsarist Russia) a peasant community consisting of several villages or hamlets
[from Russian]
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Ianin claimed that the trouble began when the secretary of the Pitelinskii district party committee was replaced by one Fediaev "who was considered a talentless worker even in the volost' (district).
A PEASANT REBELLION IN STALIN'S RUSSIA: THE PITELINSKII UPRISING, ... by McDonald, Tracy / Journal of Social History
[2] This is hard to reconcile with the author's statement that volost' county clerks "were often the only literate figures within township administrations (especially before the 1890's)" (p.
Crime, Cultural Conflict, and Justice in Rural Russia, 1856-1914 by Brooks, Jeffrey / Journal of Social History
For state peasants, the volost' (subdistrict), consisting of a group of villages, was the basic unit.
Household economies and communal conflicts on a Russian serf estate, ... by Melton, Edgar / Journal of Social History
 
 
 
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