sentences:  Committees of Poor Peasants
  
  In Soviet-ruled Russia the Bolshevik authorities established Committees of Poor Peasants (, "komitety bednoty" or , "kombedy", commonly rendered in English as kombeds) during the second half of 1918 as local institutions bringing together impoverished peasants to advance government policy.The committees had as their primary task grain requisitioning on behalf of the Soviet state; they also distributed manufactured goods in rural areas.