muzhik
- n a Russian peasant (especially prior to 1917)
- Common wisecrack of super-cynical Russian Bolsheviks is: Russki muzhik vsyo zuplatitthe Russian peasant will pay for everything.
- Even collective farms have failed to turn the mulish muzhik into a village Bolshevik.
- This was the muzhik from Kalinovka whom Stalin commanded to dance the gopak, the hayseed at whom Beria sneered years ago as "our beloved chicken statesman," "our potato politician.