Definitions for "Kulaks"
well-to-do peasant proprietors in Russia who employed wage labor; targeted as representing capitalism in a communist society.
better-off peasants who were stripped under Stalin of land and livestock. They were generally not permitted to join the collective farms and many of them starved or were deported to force-labor camps for "re-education." (p. 960)
the relatively prosperous segment of peasants in the Russian Empire disenfranchised by Soviet authorities.