In the Soviet Union, artists were hired by the government to create content that emphasized communist principles. This genre of art came to be known as socialist realism. Krikhatsky was an early socialist realist painter, before the genre became highly stylized.
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Document 1: The First Tractor by Vladimir Krikhatsky
Guiding Questions:
Guiding Questions:
1. What do you notice about the image: people, objects, activities going on?
2. How are the peasants reacting to their new tractor?
3. From your previous observations, what do you think the painter, Krikhatsky, was trying to say about collectivization? What message did he, and the Soviet government he worked for, want people to get from this image about collectivization?
Source:
Source:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Collectivization_in_the_Soviet_Union#/media/
File:Wladimir_Gawriilowitsch_Krikhatzkij_-_The_First_Tractor.jpg
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