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Early years of Soviet collective farms in state-sanctioned PHOTOS Renowned Soviet photographers often had to bend reality to capture the ideal facade of complicated rural life in Soviet Russia. In the late 1920s, the new Soviet government ruled that all private rural estates be united into what became known as collective farms. Collective farms, as opposed to private rural estates, were thought to be a necessary tool in fostering industrialization in what, at that time, was still a mostly agrarian state with a predominantly rural population. The collectivization was implemente...