



Grain growers evaluate grain among the ears.
Collective farmers ride mowers into the fields.
battle for the harvest, recovery, revival, USSR




A combine harvester is at work, pouring grain into a cart driving nearby.
An abandoned artillery piece sits in a grain field with a poster.
recovery, revival, battle for the harvest, collective farm, technique




Mowers are working in the field.
Collective farmers are stacking sheaves behind the mowers.
recovery, struggle for the harvest, bread, USSR




Shock worker P. Angelina at work on a combine harvester at the Starobeshevo collective farm.
revival, battle for the harvest, bread, shock worker
Ukrainian SSR




Strong wind and rain in the field.
Collective farmers leave the strawberry field.
The road is washed out.
Collective farmers save mown wheat in the rain.
They stack sheaves.
People take shelter from the downpour.
Agricultural machinery in the rain.
recovery, battle for the harvest, USSR, rush job




Collective farmers reap soggy ears of grain with sickles.
They stack wheat in a flooded field.
Children gather fallen ears of grain.
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Laughing collective farmers.
Dancing at the village club.
revival, struggle for the harvest, holiday




Combine harvesters are harvesting wheat.
A truck with a full load of wheat pulls away from the combine.
revival, struggle for the harvest, bread, technique




A meeting of townspeople who have come to help the collective farms.
A convoy of trucks bearing portraits of Stalin and workers in the back sets off for the fields.
Girls carry sheaves of grain.
Musical instruments lie on the hay.
Dance troupes emerge from the trucks.
The performers work on the threshing floor.
The troupe performs a lezginka for the collective farmers in the fields.
battle for the harvest, revival, bread, USSR, cooperation




Combine harvesters in the field at night.
People work on the threshing floor at night.
suffering, revival, battle for the harvest, bread, USSR, technique