



Snowstorm over field and forest.
Snow-covered village.
snow, weather, winter in the village, village




A printing press in operation.
A 1947 copy of the Pravda newspaper with a report on the Plenum of the Central Committee of the All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks).
A plaque on a wooden wall.
government, decree, solution, food




A meeting in the village of Koltsovka (synchronously).
The meeting is chaired by collective farm chairman Sergei Korotkov.
An elderly collective farmer speaks.
Chairman Korotkov speaks.
Young and old collective farmers listen to the chairman.
struggle for bread, village, solution, resolution
Snow retention work.
People in the fields with shovels are piling snow and branches into piles.
The snow melts at the forest edge and in the fields.
collective farm, village, work, thaw, weather
Life in the village of Koltsovka in early spring.
Residents harness their horses.
Collective farmers sort grain by hand for sowing.
struggle for bread, village, manual labor, weather




Collective farmers plow the land with a plow.
A tractor pulls a seeder.
weather, village, village, battle for bread, sowing




People are sitting around a fire.
A woman is stirring a brew in a pot.
village, food, battle for bread, family




The village of Koltsovka.
Women cover the furrows of a sown field with hay.
Chairman Korotkov and elderly men inspect the land.
battle for bread, village, collective farm, sowing, work




It's raining in the village.
Men are discussing something in the rain.
A car pulls up to the collective farm office.
weather, village, work