The First Tractor is the name of several Socialist realist

Socialist realism

Socialist realism is a style of realistic art which was developed in the Soviet Union and became a dominant style in other communist countries. Socialist realism is a teleologically-oriented style having its purpose the furtherance of the goals of socialism and communism...

 painting

Painting

Painting is the practice of applying paint, pigment, color or other medium to a surface . The application of the medium is commonly applied to the base with a brush but other objects can be used. In art, the term painting describes both the act and the result of the action. However, painting is...

s and other works of art that portray the beginning of collectivisation in the USSR

Collectivisation in the USSR

Collectivization in the Soviet Union was a policy pursued under Stalin between 1928 and 1940. The goal of this policy was to consolidate individual land and labour into collective farms...

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The subject of the work of art is typically a Fordson tractor

Fordson tractor

Fordson was a brand name used on a range of mass produced general-purpose tractors manufactured by Henry Ford & Son, Inc, from 1917 until 1920 when it was merged into the Ford Motor Company, which used the name until 1964...

, the first agricultural tractor

Tractor

A tractor is a vehicle specifically designed to deliver a high tractive effort at slow speeds, for the purposes of hauling a trailer or machinery used in agriculture or construction...

 imported and then manufactured in the Soviet Union

Soviet Union

The Soviet Union , officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics , was a constitutionally socialist state that existed in Eurasia between 1922 and 1991....

. The depicted tractor acted as a symbol of the advantages of agricultural

Agriculture

Agriculture is the cultivation of animals, plants, fungi and other life forms for food, fiber, and other products used to sustain life. Agriculture was the key implement in the rise of sedentary human civilization, whereby farming of domesticated species created food surpluses that nurtured the...

 mechanisation and collectivisation

Collectivisation in the USSR

Collectivization in the Soviet Union was a policy pursued under Stalin between 1928 and 1940. The goal of this policy was to consolidate individual land and labour into collective farms...

. Because tractorisation was state policy in the Soviet Union, the paintings had an agitation

Agitation

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 function.

The followng authors produced works under the title, The First Tractor.

• Vladimir Krikhatsky (Владимир Гаврилович Крихатский (Крыхацкий)), painting
• Ivan Mikhailin (Иван Алексеевич Михайлин), painting
• Vladimir Yelchaninov (Владимир Васильевич Ельчанинов), painting
• Boris Goller (Борис Голлер), play
• Lyudmila Kostina (Людмила Николаевна Костина), painting
• Victor Tsigal
  Victor Tsigal
  Victor Efimovich Tsigal was born into a Jewish family in Odessa in 1916.He became a noted painter and produced a large body of work in the socialist realist style.Tsigal was commissioned to design the new Soviet Rouble bank note which was issued in 1961...
  
   (Виктор Ефимович Цигаль), painting
• Valentin Chekmasov (Валентин Чекмасов), painting
• Maksim Pavlov (Максим Максимович Павлов), bone carving
  Bone carving
  Bone carving is the act of creating art forms by carving into animal bones and often includes the carving of antlers and horns. It can result in the ornamentation of a bone, or the creation of a figure. It has been practiced by a variety of world cultures, sometimes as a cheaper substitute for...
  
  
• Tamara Abakeliya (Тамара Григорьевна Абакелия), painting

Related to The First Tractor depictions was the fashion of inventing new names for newborns by means of abbreviations, such as "Vladlen" for Vladimir Lenin

Vladimir Lenin

Vladimir Ilyich Lenin was a Russian Marxist revolutionary and communist politician who led the October Revolution of 1917. As leader of the Bolsheviks, he headed the Soviet state during its initial years , as it fought to establish control of Russia in the Russian Civil War and worked to create a...

, "Vilor" for Vladimir Ilyich Lenin — Organizer of Revolution. In this way, the following name was created (whether seriously or not): "Dazdrapertrak", Даздрапертрак (Да здравствует первый трактор!, Long live the First Tractor!).