RUSSIA 1923 : AN AGRICULTURAL GHOST TRAVELS EUROPE
The agricultural world caught the attention during the twenties of the last century. In an eminently agrarian world, the peasants were a relevant issue for the revolutions: and the Russian Revolution was a focus of attention for the Mexican Revolution. President Álvaro Obregón sent two young agronomists to investigate and propose an adjustment to the chaos left by the armed movement in Mexico. And for that, they traveled through dozens of cities for more than eighteen months. Before arriving in Moscow, they passed through Cuba and the eastern United States, although their main interest was in the country that, months after their visit, would become the USSR. The visit of Gonzalo Robles and Juan Ballesteros to the 1923 Moscow Agricultural Exhibition was immersed in a common dialogue : how revolutions should integrate peasants into modernization.