Sentence:  As we know , the Soviet peasant today still very largely thrives on being able to sell the produce grown on his private plot ; and it is still very far from certain how valid the party 's claim is that in `` a growing number of kolkhozes '' the peasants are finding it more profitable , to surrender their private plots to the kolkhoz and to <WSD>let</WSD> the latter be turned into something increasingly like a state farm . 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  make it possible through a specific action or lack of action for something to happen