SMITH, Vern.: In A Collective Farm Village. , London: Friends of the Soviet Union, 1936."Down in the Ukraine, one of the principal agricultural regions of the Union of Socialist Soviet Republics, I came one day in the spring of 1935 to a collective farm called "Lenin's Way." ..There were about 200 families on this farm, and they were cultivating 2,500 acres...The peasants now live under a different system, something altogether new in world history. It is a system of modern machine civilization, but without capitalists or landlords, and with collective farms, based on national ownership of the land". Pp.229, owner's details(John Atkins, Khartoum March 1959) to front free endpaper. Orange limp cloth, a little soiled. G+. (Book ref. 37710) £20.00 The payment methods accepted by the seller, Beckham Books Ltd , are shown in the right-hand column. |
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