Russia's First Five Year Plan

Russia's First Five Year Plan R8 of 9 Agriculture mechanization; railroad flatcars loaded w/ tractors & bulldozers past camera. Dozer runover (nearly). Ethnic peasants work on equipment. Collective workers march to work w/ banners & hoes; people watch tractors pass & plowing. 10:01:26 Peasants w/ scythes marching past; large group riding wagons w/ water tanks & banners. Hand gathering grain sheaves & bundles & piling. 10:03:51 Threshing w/ belt driven threshers. Irrigation dams and concrete canals. Turkmania's revitalized canal system. People watching. CU water running; men shoveling. Tractors across grain stubble pulling wagons & buildings on trailers on largest state farm in northern Caucus of USSR. Houses constructed. Men working on equipment. Building farm wagons, repairing & mounting wheels. Overhauling threshing machines. 10:06:31 Plowing; seeding & planting grain. Tractors w/ headlights at night. 10:07:33 Ripe grain; McCormick-Deering combines at work. 10:08:46 CU Barley. Threshing w/ belt drive, forking grain onto conveyor, CU machine parts working, blowing straw onto pile. Concrete grain elevator under construction. Train past completed elevator. 10:10:26 Women & men washing up. CU Men shaving by tents. Traveling post office on farm & people reading, writing & posting letters. Eating at large communal table. Communism; Collectivization; Collectives; Soviet Communes; Farm Workers; Idealism;