Dovzhenko's landmark 'film poem' style brings to life the collective experience of life for the Ukranian workers, examining natural cycles through his epic montage. He explores life, death, violence, sex and other issues as they relate to the collective farms. An idealistic vision of the possibilities of communism made just before Stalinism set in and the Kulack class was liquidated, Earth was viewed negatively by many soviets because of its portrayal of death and other dark issues that come with revolution.