About the book: 2010 / Monographs by French researcher Dominique Durand on agricultural communes in Soviet Russia and their presentation in the Soviet press analyzes the evolution of official discourse and its components components throughout the 1920s and very early 1930s. The book shows which aspects of production, new life, and cultural construction became the subject of discussion, controversy, pride, or condemnation. And how did it happen that at some point this discourse became purely virtual, creating its own imaginary reality, very indirectly connected with the life of peasants.