Obshchina (Russian: общи́на, IPA: [ɐpˈɕːinə], literally "commune") or mir (Russian: мир, literally "society", among other meanings), or selskoye obshchestvo (Russian: сельское общество, "rural community", official term in the 19th and 20th century; Ukrainian: сільське товариство, romanized: sil's'ké tovarystvo), were peasant village communities as opposed to individual farmsteads, or khutors, in Imperial Russia. The term derives from the word obshchiy (Russian: о́бщий, literally "common").