Ozimye + ssudy

[Alina Israeli]

There are apparently two types of озимые, those planted in the fall  
and those planted in the spring: http://bse.sci-lib.com/ 
article083839.html

Ssuda could refer to grain, I suppose. Ssudit' (chem–to) could refer  
to any type of loan. For example: Он ссужал хлебом попавших в беду  
мужиков, но только непьющих (http://www.istina.religare.ru/ 
article254.html).


>
>
> It appears that, even though ALL their stock of grain was  
> confiscated in the
> summer, they were able to sow their ozimye.  Is it conceivable that  
> the
> ozimye were sown early in the summer, before their grain was  
> confiscated?
> That is the only way I can make sense of all this.
>
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>
> I’m also puzzled by ‘ssudy’ in the next paragraph.  Bread could not be
> bought anywhere, and the peasants were not allowed to leave their  
> villages.
> What use would money have been?  Is it possible that ‘ssudy’ could  
> mean a
> loan of seed rather than of money?

Alina Israeli
LFS, American University
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