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On the morning of the twenty-second of June, even as the Count was looking through his pockets for Mishka's letter, Nina Kulikova and her three confederates were boarding a train headed east for Ivanovo full of energy, excitement, and a clear sense of purpose.
Since the launch of the First Five-Year Plan in 1928, tens of thousands of their comrades in the urban centers had been working tirelessly to build power stations, steel mills, and manufacturing plants for heavy machinery. As this historic effort unfolded, it would be essential for the country's grain-producing regions to do their part-by meeting the increased demand for bread in the cities with leaps in agricultural production.