Единоличник

[olydiagron.livejournal.com]

Hello!
When the word единоличник/единоличница is used in the meaning "individualist", is it pejorative, or can it be neutral or positive as well?

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[olydiagron.livejournal.com]

Actually, my praprapradedusha on the maternal side was a rich farmer, it is his daughter that got married an moved to town. So my vosmiyurodnye brothers and sisters actually still live on that farm, but it is some kind of recreational centre now, not a farm.... :-).
So you see - I feel insulted that edinolichnik is a negative word, it insults my family!:)

[konstkaras.livejournal.com]

The direct meaning is used now just in historical context, individual farmer is called now фермер.
The collectivization was formally voluntary, and, as far as I know, was not even completed in some regions, where all farmers lived in isolated homesteads. Actually, remaining individual farmers suffered heavy suppression, but even in 1940 there were still 640500 individual farms (http://you1917-91.narod.ru/vylcan.html).

now we have only big farms left, I guess, only Kulaki:)

I guess, you actually have some kind of Kolkhozy too, grown by other, economical means. Rapid urbanisation in XX century made farmers increase productivity and hence cooperate, both in Socialist and Capitalist countries.

[olydiagron.livejournal.com]

Oh, i didn't know there were so many individual farms then!
But you are guessing wrong about the farms in Sweden:). The successful farmers simply bought up the land of the less successful. The others became farm laborers och moved in to town. Urbanization was fast, now only 2% of the population live on the country side.