otkhod
English
editEtymology
editBorrowed from Russian отход (otxod, “withdrawal, departure, break”).
Noun
editotkhod (uncountable)
- (historical) The exodus of Russian men from rural to industrial areas to find work outside the agricultural season.
- 2011, Matthew J. Payne, Stalin's Railroad: Turksib and the Building of Socialism, page 246:
- Thanks to the widespread otkhod from peasant villages, especially in construction, and Soviet managers' propensity to "storm," industrial life was not an entirely alien world to the Soviet Union's peasants.