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artel

[ ahr-tel ]

noun

  1. (in Russia or the Soviet Union) a peasants' or workers' cooperative; an association of workers or peasants for collective effort.


artel

/ É‘Ëˈ³ÙÉ›±ô /

noun

  1. (in the former Soviet Union) a cooperative union or organization, esp of producers, such as peasants
  2. (in prerevolutionary Russia) a quasi-cooperative association of people engaged in the same activity
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˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins

Origin of artel1

1880–85; < Russian ²¹°ù³Ùé±ô ', perhaps ultimately < a derivative of Turkic ort- middle (compare Turkish ortak partner, ´Ç°ù³Ù²¹°ì±ôι°ì association), though identity of suffixed element(s) unclear
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˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins

Origin of artel1

from Russian artel', from Italian artieri artisans, from arte work, from Latin ars art 1
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Each artel would become a kolkhoz, or collective farm, where workers owned their means of production, and eventually a sovkhoz, the state farm, with centralized ownership and quotas.

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The "artel" requires it, and, in case of disobedience, woe to the offender!

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This original form of artel still survives among the fishermen of Archangel.

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When ten or twenty peasants come from some locality to a big town, to work as weavers, carpenters, masons, boat-builders, and so on, they always constitute an artel.

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And, similarly, the younger members of the artel liked well enough to listen to his tales, but declined to take him seriously, and, in some cases, regarded him with ill-concealed, or openly expressed, distrust.

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