Word: peasant
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Moscow a similar order was issued not long ago by Commissar of War Klimentiy Voroshilov. He was curious to know what the families of 715,000 Red Army men think of Dictator Josef Stalin's program of "liquidating" (exterminating) the kulak or "rich peasant" class and herding poor peasants into Communist "collective farms" (TIME...
...greater name than Stalin's own) was bundled out of Moscow on a few hours notice, exiled to Turkestan for a year, then banished (TIME, Jan. 30, 1928). In decisions of state Stalin is equally abrupt. One (day he orders wholesale "liquidation" (extermination) of the kulak or "rich peasant" class, and the grim campaign begins (TIME, Jan. 13, et seq.). A week, six months or two years later the Dictator may change his mind. As in the case of the anti-Religion campaign, he may modify or relax his whole program, reserving if not the Right then the Power...
Five-Year Plan. Quoting official Soviet statistics, Comrade Bron shows in his book that the Five-Year Plan, now in its second year, has more than attained its industrial objectives, has fallen somewhat short in persuading the stubborn Russian peasant to plant as much seed as the Government wishes, to sell it at the price fixed by the Government, and to espouse with proper enthusiasm the Government's program of "collective farms" (TIME. Oct. 21, et seq.). Nevertheless 10,530,000 acres are now under collective cultivation...
Majestic--"All Quiet on the Western Front". Mud, love, and the Russian peasant in wartime...
Through the generosity of Muneyohsi Yanags, N. Miura and P. Yamamoto, there is being held at the Fogg Art Museum a loan exhibition of Otsne, a type of Japanese folk painting made at the village of Otsn near Kyete. This early peasant painting is rare even in Japan...