Khutor
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A khutor or khutir is a type of rural locality in some countries of Eastern Europe; in the past the term mostly referred to a single-homestead settlement. The term can be translated as "hamlet".
Konstantin Kryzhitsky. A Khutir in Little Russia, 1884
Obshchina
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An obshchina or mir, also officially termed as a rural community between the 19th and 20th centuries, was a peasant village community, or a khutor, in Imperial Russia. The term derives from the word o
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…these regions. During the Stolypin reforms in the Russian empire, Peter Stolypin envisaged rich peasants "privatising" their share of the community (obshchina (Russian: община) or tovarystvo (Ukrainian: товариство)) lands, leaving the obshchinas, and settling in khutors on their now individually owned land…
At a Mir Assembly by Sergei Korovin