Collective farm construction in the USSR (1929-1937)

Three peasants at a table in a hut.

The face of one of the peasants.

View of a peasant hut.

Windows of the hut.

Part of a leaning wall of a poor man's hut.

View of a poor peasant's house.

Broken window.

View of a middle peasant's hut, geese in the yard.

A peasant leads a horse across the yard.

View of a village kulak's house.

Glazed windows.

A peasant in a field.

The face of a peasant, rare ears of barley.

A peasant walks through a field, rare stalks of barley stick out of the ground.

A peasant adjusts a scythe before harvesting.

View of a market square with peasant carts.

Trading at the market.

Peasants negotiate the sale of grain.

The face of a peasant in profile.

Peasants buy fabric.

Faces of men and women, the hands of the seller roll the fabric into a roll.

View and panorama of part of the market square, a peasant rides by in a cart.

People look at the window of a clothing store.

People at the entrance to a rubber goods store.

People reading leaflets calling for a boycott of private trade, pasted on the glass of a shop window.

Faces of customers.

Collective farmers transferring draft animals and agricultural implements for public use.

Collective farmers issuing certificates.

The face of an elderly peasant.

Collective farmers riding in a cart along the road between fields.

Arrival of a collective farm convoy at the grain delivery point.

Wind instruments in the hands of musicians.

Collective farmers waiting in line to deliver grain.

Collective farmers mowing wheat.

View of part of a field with mown swaths, mowers in the field.

Mowers sharpening their scythes, standing in a row.

Parade of athletes on Red Square in 1937. Voroshilov KE, Stalin IV, Molotov VM on the tribune of the mausoleum.

Views of Red Square during the athletic parade (top).

A column of athletes carries a portrait of Stalin, decorated with flowers.

Voroshilov KE, Stalin IV, Molotov VM on the mausoleum tribune.

Participants in the physical culture parade carry a rotating model of a giant ball bearing with a man inside across Red Square.

Voroshilov, Stalin, Kaganovich LM greet the parade participants from the mausoleum tribune.

A model of a steam locomotive on Red Square (top).

Stalin, Bulganin NA, Molotov, Mikoyan AI among the delegates of the Congress of Female Collective Farm Shock Workers of Beet Fields in the Kremlin on November 10, 1935. Stalin talks with shock worker M. Demchenko.

Collective farmers during a political briefing.

Cultivation of a plowed field (top).

View of part of the field during spring sowing.

Planting legumes by hand.

Collective farmers reading a newspaper.

Full ears of wheat of the new harvest.

Panorama of collective farm fields (top).

Meeting of the leaders of the party and state in the Kremlin with delegates of the Congress of collective farm women shock workers of sugar beet fields in the Kremlin on November 10, 1935. Face of M. Demchenko.

Kalinin M. I. presents awards to advanced collective farmers in the Kremlin.

Kalinin congratulates a collective farmer from Central Asia on his award.

Postyshev P. P. applauds.

Mamlakat Nakhangova in the Kremlin accepts congratulations on being awarded the Order of Lenin in 1935. Faces of the awarded collective farmers.

View of part of the collective farm meeting.

The speaker from the rostrum demonstrates to the collective farmers a copy of the Act of Eternal Ownership of Land.

The collective farmers applaud.

View of part of the collective farm meeting.

A collective farm convoy with grain from the new harvest moves along the road.

A collective farmer sits on sacks of grain.

Collective farmers at the delivery point.

The twenty-five thousanders sent to work in the village to organize collective farms are getting off the train car.

Activists from the city with their belongings are walking along the train car.

A child is sitting in a sleigh and waving.

The faces of the collective farmers greeting the activists.

A sleigh with the twenty-five thousanders who have arrived is passing by.

The sleigh train is moving across virgin snow to the village of Koshki in the Samara province.

A view of part of the village of Koshki in winter.

A view of one of the village streets.

The movement of an agitation train with city patrons across a square in one of the cities (above).

An agitation train with banners on its sleighs is moving along a city street.

Views of the moving agitation sleigh train (above), the train is passing through an arch.