Earth is a 1930 Soviet Ukrainian silent film by Alexander Dovzhenko. The film concerns the process of collectivization and the hostility of kulak landowners under the First Five-Year Plan. It is the t
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A shot from the first montage, showing a woman standing next to a sunflower against the sky
A kulak was a peasant who owned over 3 ha of land in the times near the end of the Russian Empire. In the early Soviet Union, particularly in Soviet Russia and Azerbaijan, kulak referred to property o
Earth (1930 film)
…romanized: Zemlya) is a 1930 Soviet Ukrainian silent film by Alexander Dovzhenko. The film concerns the process of collectivization and the hostility of kulak landowners under the First Five-Year Plan. It is the third film, with Zvenigora and Arsenal, of Dovzhenko's "Ukraine Trilogy". The script was inspired…
The requisition of grain from "wealthy peasants" (kulaks) during state collectivization in Timashyovsky District, Kuban, Soviet Union, 1933
Illustration of the three broad categories of peasants by Soviet magazine Prozhektor published by Nikolai Bukharin, an issue of 31 May 1926. Caption under illustration says: "We received interesting photos from Novokhopersky county, Voronezh Governorate which shows the situation in a modern village."
Propaganda image of 1919, with legend "Bread-Spider." At bottom reads, "Bloodsucking Kulak: What do I care about the hungry?"
Propaganda image with Lenin quote: "Kulaks are the most brutal, the most tough, the most wild exploiters, that more than one time in history of other countries have restored the power of landowners, kings, priests and capitalists."