ABSTRACT
Memories of old Polish aristocracy in Ukraine; I visit a landed estate near front against Austria; life in Ukrainian village before Revolution; end of Polish régime; reasons for collectivization and the second agrarian revolution; I visit collective farm after Second World War; I visit same farm fourteen years later; I see big changes; talk with farm manager; surplus labour and machinery; standard of farming efficiency; financial results and standard of living of peasants; farming methods and livestock rearing; yields per acre and output per cow; visit to peasant’s house and supper with family; private holdings of peasants; divided loyalties; future of collective farming; expansion of the Eastern Slavs; the Pripet Marshes; we leave Russia.
