Transformation
Directed by Aleksandr Sidelnikov
The theme of the film is: the peasant question in Russia in the 20th century. Stolypin's reforms, the activities of food detachments, the New Economic Policy and the rise of agriculture. Collectivization and its stages. Arrests of "kulaks", famine of the early 30s. The repressions against Chayanov, Kondratiev, and Markov, Soviet economists, representatives of the "Russian School of Economics" who advocated cooperation. Mass repression. Reflections on the future of the village, on farm (farmer) agriculture. Eyewitness accounts of those events.
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