Also known as “peasant commune”, “kin community”, “territorial commune”, “village commune”, abbreviated as “village”, in Russian “община”. In a wider sense, it is a general term for different types of communes such as agricultural communes, nomadic communes and hunting communes; in a narrower sense, it refers to agricultural communes. It was a social organization formed during the dissolution of the primitive society and characterized by locality and the dualism of the property in the means of production…
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