Collectivization in the USSR (1930-1931)

Peasants submitting applications for admission to a collective farm.

A file of applications for joining the Oktyabr collective farm, starting from May 2, 1930, a hand leafing through the applications.

Peasants' faces.

Handing over agricultural equipment for collective use.

Collective farmers with hoes on their shoulders walk along a village street.

A tractor goes to spring plowing, followed by collective farmers.

A banner with a slogan on a stretcher.

Tractors drive out to the field.

Tractors plowing the land, plowshares turning over layers of earth.

Faces of collective farmers watching the plowing.

The collective farm party organizer conducts political information.

Faces of collective farmers.

The text of the Resolution of the Central Committee of the All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks) on measures of state assistance to collective farm construction, published in the newspaper.

At a collective farm meeting, the party organizer reads the text of the appeal of the governing bodies of the All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks) to the collective farmers.

Faces of collective farmers.

Communists sent to strengthen collective farms get off the train.

People wave their hands in greeting.

A sleigh train passes by.

The face of an elderly peasant.

A meeting of the "twenty-five thousanders" in a village.

Collective farmers dig up equipment from under the snow.

Preparing agricultural equipment for spring field work, repairing plows.

A burning wheat field set on fire by the kulaks.

Piles of seed grain are burning.

Sacks of grain after the fire.

View of a burnt stone barn.

View of a funeral procession during the funeral of collective farm activists killed by the kulaks (above).

Views of a collective farm meeting.

A speaker speaks at a meeting.

Faces of peasants.

One of the collective farm activists speaks at a meeting.

List of those who joined the collective farm.

Voting at a collective farm meeting.

Collective farmers welcome a new tractor, throw flowers to the tractor driver.

The face of an elderly collective farmer.

MTS tractors with a banner on a stretcher pass by.

The earth under the ploughshares, the tractor driver at the wheel of the tractor.

An instructor of the political department of the MTS, who arrived at one of the collective farms, greets the collective farm activists in the field.

The badge of the quality inspector on the quilted jacket of one of the collective farmers.

The faces of the instructor and the collective farmers talking.

The ploughshares turn over the layers of earth.

The instructor discusses the issues of seed germination with the collective farmers.

The car is parked on the road.

The instructor and the collective farmers discuss the issues of seed germination.

The instructor gets into the car with one of the collective farmers.

The faces of the participants of the collective farm meeting in one of the union republics of Central Asia.