The Voice of the People: Annals of Communism, pp. 1-16, Yale University Press, 2013, ISBN 9780300189018, ... Through the separation of some peasants from the commune the foundations of the obshchina were weakened. Enterprising peasant-separators sought to consolidate their allotted land into independent farms known as otrubs and khutors ...
Happy Moscow, Andreĭ Platonovich Platonov, Harvill, 2001, ISBN 9781860466465, ... The word obshchiy (meaning "general," "shared," "mutual" or "common") is accorded exceptional prominence in this novel about community. Occasionally the word passes by almost imperceptibly, in common idioms, or as part of compound words ...