Formation and development of the collective farm system in the USSR (1926-1930)

Buyers at a collective farm market at a tent selling goods only to collective farmers who sold their products at the market.

A man walks away from the tent counter with galoshes he has bought in his hands.

Buyers examine clothes hanging on hangers.

Trade at a collective farm market, buyers paying sellers.

Chicken eggs, laid with straw, in a box on the counter.

A buyer counts money.

A banner above a tent selling consumer goods at a collective farm market.

Buyers select goods.

A woman examines an enamel basin she bought at the tent.

A sign for a teahouse and snack bar.

Visitors at the entrance to the teahouse.

A collective farm convoy with goods and products enters the bazaar.

A collective farm agitator reads a newspaper to his fellow villagers during a village meeting.

Faces of collective farmers.

The text of an article about benefits for collective farms in the newspaper is in the hands of the agitator.

The face of one of the collective farmers.

The agitator continues reading.

The collective farmers listen to the agitator.

The agitator explains to the collective farmers the main points of the article he has read.

Tractors, transferred from Crimea after plowing, on railway platforms during their return to the Central Black Earth Region.

Mechanics service the tractors on the platforms (panorama).

Inscription on the red cloth of the banner.

A train with tractors and agricultural equipment passes by the Latnaya station.

Tractors on platforms.

A wheeled tractor on a railway platform.

Mechanics service tractors transferred from Crimea to the Central Black Earth Region, standing on railway platforms.

A tractor is leaving the platform.

A red flag with a slogan is fluttering.

Tractors are installed in a row, tractor drivers are finishing their maintenance.

Faces of tractor drivers who arrived from Crimea.

View of an industrial enterprise.

Peasants of Primorye preparing a rice paddy before sowing.

A peasant sorts rice grains before sowing.

Sowing rice in water, cultivating a rice paddy.

Views of a rice field at a state farm in the Cherkessk-Adyghe Autonomous Region.

Ripening rice ears.

Harvesting rice using a trailed combine.

Equipment for harvesting rice.

Women tying sheaves.

Removing straw from a field, loading straw into a trailer of a tractor moving along the edge of a field.

A stack of straw in a field, laying straw into a stack.