desiatina

plural desiatinas · plural desiatiny

1. alternativeAlternative spelling of dessiatina.

   The area of the isolated farm was 25,060 desiatiny of garden, hayfield and plowland, with the latter category being almost 70% of the total area.

   1982, A[leksandr] I[l’ich] Klibanov, translated by Ethel Dunn, “Economic Development and Social Contradictions in Molokan Settlements”, in Stephen P[orter] Dunn, editor, History of Religious Sectarianism in Russia (1860s–1917), Oxford, Oxfordshire: Pergamon Press, →ISBN, part 1 (Trends of Pre-Reform Sectarianism and Their Evolution), chapter 4 (The Molokan Sect), page 186

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   At the beginning of 1917 there were about 4,011,000 peasant households in Eastern Ukraine. Of these, 633,000 (15.8 per cent) had no land under cultivation; 802,000 (20.0 per cent) owned from 0.1 to 3.0 desiatiny per farm and were very poor; 2,230,000 (55.6 per cent) owned from 3.1 to 10.0 desiatiny, and were considered lower and middle class; the rest, 346,000 (8.6 per cent) owned more than 10.0 desiatiny each and were designated as rich peasants.

   1982, Vsevolod Holubnychy, “The 1917 Agrarian Revolution in Ukraine”, in Iwan S. Koropeckyj, editor, Soviet Regional Economics: Selected Works of Vsevolod Holubnychy (The Canadian Library in Ukrainian Studies), Edmonton, Alta.: Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies, University of Alberta, →ISBN, part I (Studies on Ukrainian Social and Political History), page 4

   In the non-black-earth zone the maximum size of allotments ranged from three to seven desiatiny per soul, while in the more fertile black-earth zone the range was 2.75 to six desiatiny; […]

   2024, Peter Kolchin, “Emancipation Launched: Preparation, Process, Terms”, in Emancipation: The Abolition and Aftermath of American Slavery and Russian Serfdom, New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, →ISBN, part I (Process), page 60