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Print
That's the Way to Till, Comrade Tractor!
Mikhail Mikhailovich Cheremnykh, (Tomsk, Russia, 1890 - 1962, Moscow, USSR)
Cheremnykh, Mikhail Mikhailovich
Russia
1890 - 1962
Male
14 7/8 x 10 5/8 in. (37.8 x 27 cm)
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Printer's ink
Printer's ink
1932
1932
1932
1900-2000, 20th century, lithographs, politics in art
Print
From a portfolio of 27 prints.
In the Russian countryside, the <em>kulak</em>, or wealthy landowner, the village priest, and elderly peasant women who persisted in their religious beliefs were considered the three holdouts to both the Soviet anti-religious campaign and the move toward collective farming and industrialization. Here, despite the three characters' attempts at restraining the tiller, the tractor going around the circumference of the circle clears the <em>kulak</em>'s land of individual plots, replacing them with a single one filled with golden wheat. The word "collectivization" is written on the tiller.
2001.20.17
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Memorial Art Gallery
7/9/2003
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2001.20.17DI#2
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7/14/2008
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