View of the Rostov plant of agricultural machinery, workers for the manufacture of parts on machine tools; verification of the fulfillment of socialist competition; the territory of the plant, littered with rubbish, a meeting to increase labor productivity; a Komsomol shock brigade is working in the shop. The publication of the newspaper "The Way to Socialism" by the "Pravda" field edition in one of the collective farms of the Middle Volga region. Workers of one of the Leningrad factories are working at the machines, are engaged in training courses in technical colleges. The building of the Leningrad Institute of Technology, students in practical training. Chronicle footage of the speech of the poet V. Mayakovsky at a meeting of the State Publishing House in 1929, V. Mayakovsky on his deathbed. Anti-religious evening in the club of the factory "Krasny Tekstilshchik" in Moscow, the performance of the mobile theater "Godless". Readers in the library of the Podolsk club "Metalist". Moscow pioneers making mannequins for the May Day demonstration.