[Beekeeper holding up part of his hive, Aktau, USSR]

[Young girl helping gather wheat on a communal farm, Aktau, USSR]

[Women carring grains after a harvest on a cooperative farm, Aktau, USSR]

[A woman gesturing while describing farm life, Aktau, USSR]

[A woman smiling while describing farm life, Aktau, USSR]

[A woman gesturing while describing farm life, Aktau, USSR]

[Farmer working in a field as her son watches on a communal farm, Aktau, USSR]

[Men preparing logs in order to construct new homes after being destroyed in the war, Aktau, USSR]

[Woman gathering a bundle of hay on a collective farm, Aktau, USSR]

[Portrait of Stalin on a gate leading to a cooperative farm, Aktau, USSR]

[Villiagers standing around a horse drawn supply cart, Aktau, USSR]

[Young boy on a communal farm wearing a hat made of straw, Aktau, USSR]

[Young boy on a communal farm wearing a hat made of straw, Aktau, USSR]

[Young boy on a communal farm wearing a hat made of straw, Aktau, USSR]

[Young boy on a communal farm wearing a hat made of straw, Aktau, USSR]

[Man and woman standing on a partially built house, Akau, USSR]

[Families of a collective farm eating a meal inside their home, Ukranian Soviet Republic, U.S.S.R.]