For the book selected essays on the Soviet village. The author talks about post-war construction on collective farms, about the electrification of agriculture, about innovation in agriculture, about people creating a socialist novelty. The heroes of the essays are ordinary collective farmers and collective farmers, collective farm chairmen, agronomists, party workers, thirty thousandths. Materials for essays by the author were collected during trips to Moscow, Yaroslavl, Kalinin" Novgorod, Tambov villages and villages...