About the book: 1989 / The Great Jame - written in the late 1980s, this book reveals the fate of the peasantry and villages during the years of Soviet power, the tragic consequences of collectivization and dispossession. The author briefly describes the history of the peasantry and land use in Russia, starting from the times of Kievan Rus, and examines in detail enslavement and liberation, Stolypin’s activities in terms of land reforms. Life, joys, moral principles, how organically all this was connected with peasant labor and how it was broken in the most hideous way.