Obshchina

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An obshchina (, lit. 'commune'; Russian: община, IPA: [ɐpˈɕːinə]) or mir (, lit. 'world'; Russian: мир, IPA: [mʲir]), also officially termed as a rural community (Russian: сельское общество; Ukrainian: сільське товариство) between the 19th and 20th centuries, was a peasant village community (as opposed to an individual farmstead), or a khutor, in Imperial Russia.

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