The book offered to the reader by candidate of economic sciences A. Bazarov is an interesting and successful attempt to rethink one of the most important moments of Russian history - the collectivization of agriculture. Widely using archival materials and new approaches, the author, through the drama of the Ural village, reveals the formation of collective farm coercion against the background of the political and moral degradation of party and state power. This process is considered not in the traditional plan of party decisions and their implementation, but from the point of view of the suffering side - the peasantry.