To find out the real situation of the collective farmers in the Soviet Union before the 1970s, you don't need to read Solzhenitsyn, you just need to ask the old people who are still alive who worked on the collective farm or their children and it's a shame that you can't create a modern analogue of a collective farm for such "knowers": ban layoffs, take passports, force them to work for "sticks" of working days without days off (at least from almost the beginning of spring until the winter), to distribute the "profit" in the form of several hundred kilograms of grain in each school year in the city, not to release the children to work at the institute or to study in a year, or to study. At the end of their lives they end up with a pension four to five times lower than the municipal pension (11-18 rubles, then only in the 70s).

To find out the real situation of the collective farmers in the Soviet Union before the 1970s, you don't need to read Solzhenitsyn, you just need to ask the old people who are still alive who worked on the collective farm or their children and it's a shame that you can't create a modern analogue of a collective farm for such "knowers": ban layoffs, take passports, force them to work for "sticks" of working days without days off (at least from almost the beginning of spring until the winter), to distribute the "profit" in the form of several hundred kilograms of grain in each school year in the city, not to release the children to work at the institute or to study in a year, or to study. At the end of their lives they end up with a pension four to five times lower than the municipal pension (11-18 rubles, then only in the 70s).