In recent years, research work in the field of studying the history of the Soviet peasantry and collective farm construction in the USSR has noticeably intensified. This was largely due to preparations for the centenary of the birth of V. I. Lenin. Groups of scientists and individual researchers, preparing for the significant date, created a number of works devoted to the Lenin cooperative plan, its development and implementation in the USSR 1, in the union and autonomous republics, territories and regions of the RSFSR 2 . Materials of the sessions of agricultural historians dedicated to the Lenin jubilee 3 were published . Works covering certain problems and periods of the agrarian history of Soviet society have also been published .4 For the most part, this literature has not yet been considered historiographically. A review of literature on the history of Soviet society was prepared for the XIII International Congress of Historical Sciences, held in Moscow in 1970. But the works of 1970 and a number of works published in 19695 remained outside its framework . This review attempts to briefly review works on the history of the Soviet peasantry published in 1968-1970, usually in connection with preparations for the 100th anniversary of Lenin's birth. The literature on national republics, which needs special analysis, is characterized mainly in terms of identifying common features and some features of the process of socialist transformation of agriculture in the localities. 1 M. V. Gamayunov. Big changes. Lenin's Cooperative Plan and its Implementation in the USSR, Moscow, 1968; "Lenin's Cooperative Plan and the Party's Struggle for its Implementation," Moscow, 1969; " Soviet Peasantry. A brief outline of History (1917-1969)", Moscow, 1970; L. E. Fine. Istoriya razrabotki V. I. Lenin kooperativnogo plana [History of V. I. Lenin's development of a cooperative plan]. Moscow, 1970; G. V. Sharapov. Lenin's Cooperative Plan and its International Significance, Moscow, 1970 ... Читать далее