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Nikolai alekseyevich voznesensky, chairman of the state planning commission and vice-chairman of the council of people's commissars, january 1938.

Nikolai alekseyevich voznesensky, vice-chairman of the council of ministers and chairman of the state planning committee of the ussr, march 1948.

Nikolai alekseyevich voznesensky, chairman of the state planning commission of the ussr, speaking at the joint session of the supreme soviet of the ussr and the soviet of nationalities, seated behind him on the presidium are (l to r): ch, aslanova and p, levitsky, vice-chairmen of the soviet of nationalities, a, zhdanov, chairman of the soviet of the union, t, lysenko and n, undasynov, vice-chairmen of the soviet of the union.

Grigoriy konstantinovich ordzhonikidze (sergo ordzhonikidze), chairman of the supreme economic council of the ussr, 1920s.

Valerian v, kuybyshev (1888-1935), soviet politician, chairman of supreme council of the national economy (1928-1930).

Walter ulbricht, state council chairman of the gdr, speaking on 'the constitution of the socialist society and its socialist state of the german nation' and gave his report as the chairman of the commission preparing the draft for a socialist constitution to the 7th session of the people's chamber (parliament) held in the congress hall on berlin's alexander square on january 31, 1968.

Chairman s, muromtsev, a member of the constitutional-democratic party, speaking at a sitting of the first state duma (russian parliament) in 1906.

Walter ulbricht, first secretary of the socialist unity party (sed) central committee and gdr state council chairman, dancing with soviet cosmonaut valentina tereshkova during the 'cosmonaut ball' in honor of tereshkova and gagarin, berlin, gdr, october 19, 1963.

Council of women's international democratic federation holds session in moscow, november 1949, eslanda robeson, vice-president of the american women's congress, and people's artist of the uzbek republic temars khanum, during the intermission between sittings of the session.

V, lacis, chairman of the council of ministers of the latvian ssr, speaking during the jubilee session of the supreme soviet of the latvian ssr on the occasion of the 10th anniversary of soviet latvia, july 1950.

S, budenny, s, timoshenko, and k, voroshilov, a group portrait from 1919, at that time, voroshilov was a member of the military council of the first mounted army (cavalry), budenny was the commander of that army, and timoshenko was division commander in the army.

August kirchenstein, chairman of the presidium of the supreme soviet of the latvian ssr receiving visitors on the occasion of the 10th anniversary of soviet latvia, june 1950.

Acedemician trofim lysenko, who was elected vice-chairman of the soviet of the union during the first session of the supreme soviet of the ussr in 1938.

Behind the scenes at the grand opera and ballet theater of the ussr, soviet ballet dancer, g, ulanova, in her dressing room, january 1947.

Council of women's international democratic federation holds session in moscow, november 1949, eslanda robeson, vice-president of the american women's congress, addressing the session.

Walter ulbricht, chairman of the gdr council of state and first secretary of the central committee of the socialist unity party of germany (sed),1961.

Communist leaders from two continents at the bolshoi theater in moscow at a meeting in honor of josef stalin's 70th birthday on december 21, 1949, (left to right: politburo member l,m, kaganovich; chairman mao zedong; armed forces minister marshal n,a, bulganin; stalin; walter ulbricht, deputy premier of the east german government; j, cedenbal; n,s, khrushchev, chief of the ukrainian council of ministers; i, koplenig).

Admiral n,g, kuznetsov, people's commissar of the navy, soviet minister of the navy, 1950s, ussr.

Marshal mikhail n, tukhachevsky, assistant people's commissar for defense of the ussr, 1933.

Tunguska meteorite, the valley of the churgima stream, 4km south of where the meteorite fell in 1908, the hills are covered with fallen and burnt trees and young growth, this picture was taken during professor leonid kulik's 1938 expedition to investigate the event.

Joseph stalin giving a speach at a session of the commission for studying the project of the model constitution of agricultural artels during the second all-union congress of collective farm shock-workers, april 1935.

A statue of joseph stalin in the garden of victory square in the industrial city of stalinsk, the iron and steel plant is in the background, spewing smoke, early 1950s.

Soviet ballet dancer, natalia dudinskaya, as bayadere at the leningrad theater of opera and ballet, 1930s.

Communist leaders from two continents at the bolshoi theater in moscow at a meeting in honor of josef stalin's 70th birthday on december 21, 1949, (left to right: chairman mao zedong; armed forces minister marshal n,a, bulganin; and stalin).

10th century, a prince and his bodyguard gathering tribute from the people, the prince's servant kept account and recorded the amount of tribute brought in on a tablet.

Leon trotsky, people's commissar for military and naval affairs, at a military parade in red square in honor of the third congress of the communist interantion (third international), moscow, soviet union, 1920.

Walter ulbricht, state council chairman and first secretary of the central committee of the socialist unity party (sed), during his significant speech on the peace policy of the gdr on gdr television and radio on september 15, 1961.

New growth on an old tree 20 km to the east of the blast center that was burnt and damaged in 1908 by the tunguska meteorite, prior to that, it was dense forest, this picture was taken during professor leonid kulik's 1938 expedition to investigate the event.

President of yugoslavia josip broz tito during his closing address to the conference of the league of communists, belgrade, yugoslavia, january 1972.

Behind the scenes at the grand opera and ballet theater of the ussr, ballet dancers at a rehearsal, january 1947.

Lenin's funeral, members of the politburo (joseph stalin, left front) carrying the casket into the crypt near the kremlin wall in red square, moscow, january 1924.

Lenin's funeral, members of the politburo carrying the casket into the crypt near the kremlin wall in red square, moscow, january 1924.

Bulganin's picnic party for foreign diplomats and journalists visiting moscow, us ambassador charles bohlen having a friendly chat with the chairman of the council of ministers of the ussr, n,a, bulganin while walking in the garden, moscow, august 1955.

People listening to a speach of a people's commissar being played on a gramaphone, 1920, propaganda train bringing movies and recordings to to reach and instruct the peasantry.

Prince of kiev, yaroslav the wise (1019 1054), sculpture reconstructed from the skull by m,m, gerasimov, the anthropologist, from the collection of the state historical museum in moscow, 1957.

People's comissariat of home trade of ussr on kirov street in moscow, october 1935.

Walter ulbricht, state council chairman and first secretary of the central committee of the socialist unity party (sed), reading a book in the park of the residence of the state council, june 25, 1963.

A group of school children in gori, georgia in the 1890s, stalin is on the lower right.

Russian theater, dance, and art impresario, sergei diaghilev in the 1920s.

A meeting of the working people of the molotov election district of moscow, held here on the occasion of vyacheslav molotov's consent to stand for elections in this district, ussr, february 1950.

An amateur folk chorus singing in manezh square in moscow on the occasion of j,v, stalin's 70th birthday, december 21, 1949, 'glory to the great stalin' written in lights behind them.

A demonstration / parade of the working people in red square in moscow on november 7, 1950, the sportsmen are carrying soviet flags and an image of stalin.

Baron roman feodorovich ungern-sternberg, white russian commander of anti-bolshevik forces in mongolia and lake baikal region, 1886-1921, captured in irkutsk and executed by the bolsheviks, the mad baron, the bloody baron, russian civil war.

Joseph stalin at a may day celebration with first grade student vera kondakova, may 1, 1952, she stepped out of a column of pioneers and presented the premier with a bouquet of flowers.

Soviet ballerina, r, struchkova, as princess aurora in a new production of tchaikovsky's 'sleeping beauty', april 1952, conducted by y, faier, choreographed by a, messerer and m, gabovich, scenery by m, obolensky.

Joseph stalin (front, left) sits with k,e, voroshilov at a conference of best combine workers and soviet government, left to right, back: a,a, andreyev, l,m, kaganovich, v,j, chubar, ussr, 1930s.

Russian civil war, kalinin and s, budonny (budenny), commander of the first cavalry army, at the vrangel front in october 1920, with cavalry troops.

Nina lobkovskaya in war and peace, like all young girls, nina loves pretty clothes, here she is trying on a dress during a shopping trip, if it were not for her uniform with its decorations hanging nearby, no one would guess that she has been through the war, 1940s.

Russia 1917: session of the workers' and soldiers' deputies council in the state duma building.

Two women looking at coats and hats on display in a window of the central department store in moscow, 1940s.

Afghan air force mikoyan-gurevich mig-15 fighters and ilyushin il-28 bombers at kabul, afghanistan, during the visit of the u,s, president dwight d, eisenhower, 9-14 december 1959.

Vyacheslav m, molotov on his way to a meeting of the moscow session of the ministers council, march 14, 1947, the car is an armored american packard.

Communist leaders from two continents at the bolshoi theater in moscow at a meeting in honor of josef stalin's 70th birthday on december 21, 1949, (left to right: suslov, mao zedong, bulganin, stalin, vassilevsky, and khrushchev).

Soviet premier nikita khrushchev, gdr state council chairman walter ulbricht, and the minister council chairman of poland jozef cyrankiewicz being welcomed with flowers in the town hall of frankfurt prior to a great demonstration on july 3, 1963.

Moscow, october 7, 1939, chairman of the presidium of the ussr supreme soviet mikhail kalinin awards heroes of the battles on the khalkhin-gol river, from left to right: heroes of the soviet union s, p, denisov, i, n, dushkin, k, n, abramov, n, s, gerasimov, v, i, shevchenko and i, a, lakeyev.

Grigoriy konstantinovich ordzhonikidze (sergo ordzhonikidze), people's commissar of heavy industry with josef stalin welcoming a delegation from the georgian soviet socialist republic to moscow on march 19, 1936.

War time restoration of the krasnodar machine tool manufacturing plant is under way, a vertical boring and turning machine, assembled by a, bershadsky and his crew, is completed 20 days ahead of schedule, ussr 1940s.

Tunguska, tree top shorn off by the force of the blast from the tunguska meteorite that hit in the siberian taiga in 1908, picture is from 1938.

Lt, general viktor borisoglebsky, chairman of the military collegium of the supreme court of the ussr, he played a prominent role at the trial of u2 spy plane pilot francis gary powers, 1960.

The four korotkov brothers who work at the novosibirsk locomotive depot, they come from a family of generations of railway men, vasili and nikolai were awarded the order of lenin, and vladimir and georgi received the red banner of labor, july 1951, (left to right) vasili, georgi, nikolai and vladimir korotkov.

The church of christ the savior in moscow, 1920s.

Walter ulbricht, gdr state council chairman, giving a statement on the assassination of us president john f, kennedy to united press international newsfilms (upi) on december 3, 1963, sitting (left to right) are mr, holdt, director of the press office at the gdr ministry for foreign affairs; w, ulbricht; mr, flemming, director of the west berlin upi office and ambassador kegel.

Scene from 'ivan the terrible' (1944-45), film by sergei eisenstein, nikolai cherkassov (left) as tsar ivan the terrible, ussr.

The entrance hall of the ussr pavillion at the 1939 world's fair in new york.

Illustration of gogol's 'dead souls,' chichikov (left) visits puyushkin (plushkin), woodcut by agin, 1846.

Moscow, late 1930s, a trolley-bus going past the french embassy building.

Street scene with moscow hotel on the right, moscow, 1930s.

The arch of triumph on kutuzovskiy prospect in moscow, 1934.

The arrival of dimitry donskoi to meet with segei radonezhsky before the battle of kulikovo, 16th century.

Panorama (1 of 3) of the l, kaganovich oil fields in baku, azerbaijan ssr, 1930s.

Panorama (2 of 3) of the l, kaganovich oil fields in baku, azerbaijan ssr, 1930s.

Panorama (3 of 3) of the l, kaganovich oil fields in baku, azerbaijan ssr, 1930s.

Alexander kerensky, leader of the provisional government, in his office in the winter palace, petrograd, 1917.

M, marushko, a 66 year-old peasant from the village of dobroshin in the zhukov district of western ukraine, sees a picture of joseph stalin for the first time in his life, october 1939.

Crime and punishment' novel by fyodor dostoyevsky, feodor konstantinov's illustration (woodcut), 1945.

Vladimir nemirovich-danchenko (1858-1943), actor, director, co-founder with stanislavsky of the moscow art theatre.

Vladimir nemirovich-danchenko (1858-1943), actor, director, co-founder with stanislavsky of the moscow art theatre.

A young family passing by the windows of the lyudmila shop in tchkalov street in moscow, 1950s.

A steam locomotive on the trans-siberian railroad in the krasnoyarsk region of russia in the 1890s, the first train in krasnoyarsk.

Alexander kerensky's last speech at the pre-parliament on november 6, 1917, the day before the break-out of the socialist revolution.

The most popular business suit this season is worn with a warm vest of harmonizing color,' moscow, ussr, late 1950s or early 1960s.

Josef stalin (right) with felix dzherzhinsky, founder of the cheka (first soviet secret police), late 1920s? .

Boris pasternak (1890-1960), russian poet and novelist, author of 'doctor zhivago'.

Propaganda photo of josef stalin as benevolent father figure with eleven year old mamlakat nakhangova, a schoolgirl from the lakhuti collective farm, stalinabad region, tajikistan soviet republic, kremlin palace, moscow, ussr, december 1935.

Five leaders of decembrist uprising of 1825, left to right: p,i, pestel, k, f, rileyev, m,p, bestuzhev-riumin, s,i, muravyev-apostol, p,g, kakhovsky, all five were executed by order of tsar nicholas the first, russia.

Scene from 'ivan the terrible' (1944-45), film by sergei eisenstein, nikolai cherkassov (left) as tsar ivan the terrible, ludmilla tselikovskaya as the tsarina, ussr.

Workers studying diagrams indicating the output accomplished at the blast furnace shop of the magnitogorsk iron and steel works.

Professor leonid kulik who, in 1938, led a scientific expedition into the siberian taiga to investigate the site of the tunguska meteorite, here, he's seen crossing the khushmo river on horse back 7km from where the meteorite fell in 1908.

Corner of 25th october prospect (nevsky prospect) and july 3rd street (sadovaya street) in leningrad, early 1930s.

The first soviet steam-and-internal combustion locomotive with it's inventor and chief builders, november 1939, (left to right) d, lvov, l, maizel (inventor), and p, soroka.

Comrade solovyov, the secretary of the communist party branch at the krasny putilovets plant, undergoing questioning duing the campaign to cleanse the cp of hostile elements, leningrad, 1933, the banner reads: 'a communist is obliged to be truthful and honest before the party'.

50 meter high monument to josef stalin erected in the armenian capital of yerevan, 1951, the monument was built by sculptor and people's artist of the ussr, s, merkurov and architect, r, izraelian who were both awarded the stalin prize for their efforts.

Malnourished croatian and bosnian muslim prisoners of war in manjaca, the largest serbian concentration camp, serbia, 1992.

With the eyes of glasnost' sign reads: 'glasnost' cartoon from krokodil magazine p, kulichin and g, sochi.

Ceremony at the bolshoi theater celebrating joseph stalin's 70th birthday, seated, from left to right, are togliatti, budenni, kaganovich, suslov, mao tse-tung (zedong), bulganin, stalin, vassilevsky, khrushchev, ibarruri, georgiu-dej,shvernik, and malenkov, december 1949.

Women clients in the waiting room of the moscow institute of cosmetology and hygiene, opened in january by 'glavperfume', an abbreviated name for the chief administration of the state perfume and cosmetics industry, february 1937.

Soviet leader nikita khrushchev (left) and u,s, vice-president richard nixon at the opening of the u,s, trade and technology exhibition in moscow, ussr, 1959, the famous kitchen debate, leonid brezhnev, second from right, front.

Top - a view of gori, the town in georgia where joseph stalin was born, december 21, 1879, bottom - the house in which stalin was born and spent his childhood, right - a group of gori school children, stalin is on the lower right.

Mao tse-tung (zedong), chairman of the people's republic of china, speaking at the jubilee session of the ussr supreme soviet dedicated to the 40th anniversary of the october revolution, moscow, 1957.

Nikolai shvernik reading the sentence handed down by the supreme court at a trial of menshevik counter-revolutionaries in moscow, 1931.

Unemployed day laborers in front of an employment agency in moscow in the 1890s.

Walter ulbricht, gdr state council chairman, and other representatives of the gdr voting for the candidates of the national front in berlin during local elections on september 17, 1961.

Rear admiral ivan pananin, chief administrator of the northern sea route, 1944, world war 2, ussr, famous leader of 1930s soviet polar expeditions.

Order bearer p, kultyshev, a signalman of the soviet pacific fleet, is one of the first in military and political studies, april 1938.

M, i, kalinin, president of the central executive committee of the ussr, awarding the order of the red banner of labor to grigoriy konstantinovich ordzhonikidze (sergo ordzhonikidze), the people's commissar of heavy industry, for over-fulfilling the production plan of 1935.

Participants in the annual physiacal culture parade standing under a portrait of joseph stalin near red square in moscow, ussr, 1930s.

An aerial view of the opera house and surrounding streets, odessa, ukrainian ssr, late 1940s.

The novolipetsk iron and steel mills under construction near the kursk magnetic anomaly, the plant will be the major metal supplier for the central and southern regions of the european part of the country, late 1940s.

The boiko's tank unit receives new js-122 (joseph stalin 122) heavy tanks, 1942, tank commander, junior lieutenant alexandra boiko and her husband, driver/mechanic ivan boiko.

Nikita khrushchev, chairman of the ussr council of ministers, making an appearance on american television during his visit to the united states at the invitation of president eisenhower in september 1959.

Members of the diplomatic corps with friends and family in red square, watching a demonstration, mrs, joseph davies, wife of the american ambassador to the ussr, is in the center (w/ light hat & cape), 1930s.

A crew of young women workers, headed by mari volkova (right), have just finished their shift and are reading the results of the high output competition, volkova and her girlfriends are in second place, the heading of the 'exhibition board' reads 'fulfillment quota for oil output from, ,,', 1940s.

People's artist of the republic, raphael adelheim, ussr, march 1938.

Petrograd, russsia 1917: first members of the provisional government in the state council chamber, alexander kerensky standing second from right (of faces not in shadow) .

Joseph stalin with two young women collective farm workers from tadjikistan soviet republic at a conference of cotton farm workers, january 1936, ussr.

Major-general of artllery, dmitri vorobyov, people's assessor of the supreme court of the ussr, he played a prominent role at the trial of u2 spy plane pilot francis gary powers, 1960.

Monument to joseph stalin in front of the mechanization pavillion of the all-union agricultural exhibit in moscow, 1941, people's commissar of agriculture of the ussr, i, benediktov, spoke at the meeting during the inauguration which had an attendance of in excess of 50,000 people.

State prosecutor, andrei vyshinsky reading the charges at a purge trial in the late 1930's.

Siberian taiga forest that was flattened by the blast from the tunguska meteorite near where the meteorite fell in 1908, this picture was taken during professor leonid kulik's 1938 expedition to investigate the event.

People's assessor of the supreme court of the ussr, major-general alexander zakharov, he played a prominent role in trial of u2 spy plane pilot francis gary powers, ussr, 1960.

Inside the studio of materials, volume, and construction (the former academy of arts) in petrograd, 1920s.

Ekaterina dzhugashvili, joseph stalin's mother.

The monument to the third international (tatlin's tower) by vladimir tatlin, the model of the proposed tower in the studio of materials, volume, and construction (the former academy of arts) in petrograd, 1920.

The monument to the third international (tatlin's tower) by vladimir tatlin, the model of the proposed tower in the studio of materials, volume, and construction (the former academy of arts) in petrograd, 1920.

The monument to the third international (tatlin's tower) by vladimir tatlin, the model of the proposed tower in the studio of materials, volume, and construction (the former academy of arts) in petrograd, 1920.

Maxim gorky, vyacheslav molotov, k, voroshilov, joseph stalin,, mikhail kalinin and nikolai bulganin (left to right) on the platform of the lenin mausoleum during a sports parade in red square, moscow, july 24, 1934.

Former american ambassador, joseph e, davies with his wife at the byeloruskiy railway terminal in moscow as they were leaving for america, june 1938, on the left is the iranian ambassador and next to him is the french ambassador.

A meeting of representatives of jewish people held in moscow on august 24, 1941, (l to r) poet perets markish, novelist david bergelson, people's artist of the ussr professor solomon mikhoels, and writer ilya ehrenburg.

Coat of arms of the moscow government at the time of ivan lli (ivan the great).

Oil fields of baku, azerbaijan ssr, 1920s.

Kirghiz red army cavalrymen bringing soviet power to central asia, 1930s.

Pavel ivanovich chichikov, a character in gogol's 'dead souls', illustration by a, leptev, 1952.

Song festival in riga, sport performance of the pupils of the training institutions of the administration of labor reserves of the latvian ssr on the occasion of the 10th anniversary of soviet latvia, july 1950.

Tsar ivan lli (ivan the great).

The voting in of k,p, orlovsky as the head of the 'rasvyet' kolkhoz, 1944.

Soviet premier, nikita khrushchev, showing photographs of objects found in the u2 spy plane that was shot down over soviet territory on may 1st, 1960, joint session of council of the union and council of nationalities, kremlin, moscow, may 7th, 1960.

Workers laying track for the 400-mile abakan-taishet railroad through the sayan mountains in siberia, 1960.

Workers laying track for the 400-mile abakan-taishet railroad through the sayan mountains in siberia, 1960.

Workers laying track for the 400-mile abakan-taishet railroad through the sayan mountains in siberia, 1960.

Commander of the pacific fleet of the ussr, vice-admiral yumashev (left) and chief of staff of the pacific fleet, rear-admiral boguenko, on the bridge of the torpedo boat, stalin.

Battleship potemkin' (1925), film by director sergei eisenstein, the famous scene where tsarist soldiers fire on demonstrators on the odessa steps (1905).

Joseph stalin getting out of his car (an american 1937 v-12 packard), late 1940s.

News reel of joseph stalin watching a may day parade in red square, moscow, 1949.

A portrait of tsar nicholas ll with his son alexei wearing military uniforms in 1915.

Famine, soviet union, a child dying of hunger, volga region, 1921-22.

Women drying grain on a kolkhoz (collective farm) in the soviet union, 1930s.

Cheap meals being distributed among moscow workers in the early 1920s.

Leon trotsky speaking at the tomb of victims of an explosion at the head quarters of the moscow city committee of the russian communist party of bolsheviks, leontyevsky lane, moscow, soviet union.

The house in the village of kurejka (1939) in the turukhansk district of the krasnoyarsk territory, where joseph stalin lived during the years of his exile by the tsarist government 1913 - 1917.

Zeljko raznjatovic, nicknamed arkan, leader of serbian volunteer force fighting croatian forces in krajina (kraina) region, 1993, yugoslavia.

Soviet ballet dancer, marina kondryateva, in the title role in laurencia, alexander krein's ballet based on a play by lope de vega, 1950s (?).

Baku oil fields, azerbaijan, end of the 19th century.

Yaroslav the wise, prince of kiev, 11th century.

The entrance to the national hotel in moscow, february 1947, the moscow hotel is on the other side of the street.

Capture of two swedish ships by russian navy of peter the great, 1703.

Painting 'the knight at the crossroad' by v,m, vaznetsov, ilya of murom, according to legend, in service of vladimir of kiev, 1953.

V,i, lenin, m,i, kalinin, i,v, stalin in a group of delegates of the 8th meeting of the bolshevik communist party in moscow, march 1919.

A general view of kurejka (1939) in the turukhansk district of the krasnoyarsk territory, where joseph stalin was exiled by the tsarist government 1913 - 1917.

Moscow on the eve of may day, a couple placing an order for the holidays at the home delivery department of 'gastronom' food shop no, 2, april 1952.

Soviet cosmonaut yuri gagarin with khrushchev on the rostrum on lenin's tomb in red square, moscow, ussr, 1961.

Joseph stalin standing on lenin's tomb in red square, reviewing the may day parade in 1952.

Lev landau, scientist, participants at scientific conference on high energy particles, left to right: prof, jack steinberger, columbia university (usa); prof, l, riddiford (uk); lev landau of ussr, moscow, may 1956.

Private farmers discussing the decision of the communist party to grant preferential treatment to collective farmers, 1930.

A party meeting at the 'paris commune' plant in moscow during the campaign to cleanse the communist party of hostile elements, september 1933.

A view of gori, the town in georgia where joseph stalin was born, december 21, 1879.

A woman trying on shoes in the footware department of a moscow department store, december 1947.

Prince of kiev, yaroslav the wise, on his deathbed, 11th century.

Moscow residents lining up at a canteen of the moscow public catering committee in 1921.

40th anniversary of the gorky academic art theater of the ussr in moscow, people's artist of the ussr, leonid leonidov, at work on his production of maxim gorky's play 'dostigayev and others', october 1938.

Delegates to 11th young communist league (komsomol) congress at the kremlin palace of congresses, moscow, ussr, 1949.

A soviet propaganda poster featuring joseph stalin published by the iskusstvo publishing house, 1950 (?), 'the great stalin - the hope for peace', published during the collection of signatures under the appeal of the world peace council in the soviet union for a peace pact between the great powers.

A,i, mikoyan with walter ulbricht, first deputy prime minister of the gdr, during his visit to east germany in april 1958.

Berlin, east germany, gdr, 1979, the new palace hotel with restaurant and shopping complex nears completion.

The house in which joseph stalin was born and spent his childhood in gori, georgia.

Professor leonid kulik who, in 1938, led a scientific expedition into the siberian taiga to investigate the site of the tunguska meteorite.

Famous arcade passage way of gum, state department store on red square, moscow, ussr, 1935, a photograph by visiting american photographer and journalist julien bryan.

Latvian peasant, j, karklin receiving a deed entitling him to free and permanent holdings of land, july 1945.

The ussr pavillion at the 1939 world's fair in new york at night.

The ussr pavillion at the 1939 world's fair in new york.

Stalin addressing the 8th congress of soviets on the draft of the new soviet constitution, nov 25, 1936.

The title page of the document folder with the 'barbarossa' plan, i,e, of the attack on the soviet union on june 22, 1941.

Sargeant andrei lavenkov training new sharpshooters during the battle with finland, 1940s (late?).

Surface of the moon as seen from luna 16, 1970.

Sergei mironovich kirov at the construction site of the stalin white sea - baltic canal, june 1932.

The all-union agricultural exhibition in moscow, august 1939, visitors to the exhibition examining specimens of a couch-grass / wheat hybrid (developed by member of the academy of sciences, tsitsin) at the demonstration field of the grain pavillion, in the background is a newly erected statue of stalin.

A family strolling under the benificent gaze of a sculpture of josef stalin, 'the great continuer of lenin's cause' on one of the central thoroughfares of stalinogorsk, in the moscow coal basin, ussr, 1950.

Sergei mironovich kirov, the study of kirov's apartment in leningrad, ussr, 1939.

Soviet space probe venera 5 or 6 launched in january 1969, this is a still from the film 'the storming of venus', produced by e, kuzis at the tsentrnauchfilm central scientific film studio, released on may 17, 1969.

Bolshevik leader sergei mironovich kirov speaking at the 17th congress of the all-union communist party of bolsheviks in february 1934.

A drawing showing dimitri ivanovich mendeleev making a balloon flight in 1887 to study the upper strata of the atmosphere.

Admiral arseni grigoryevich golovko, commander of the northern fleet, soviet navy, world war 2.

Aleksandr nikolayevich shelepin, cpsu central committee secretary, head of the kgb from 1958-1961, he was one of four officials promoted to the rank of deputy premier by khrushchev in 1962.

Spasso house, the residence of the us ambassador to the soviet union, walter b, smith, in moscow, ussr, late 1940s.

Moscow residents listening to a radio report by molotov announcing the invasion of the soviet union by germany, june 22, 1941.

The gorky machine tool works is functioning again in kiev, complex automatic multi-spindle machine tools are assembled in this shop of the gorky works, october 1947.

Grigoriy konstantinovich ordzhonikidze (sergo ordzhonikidze) when he was a student of the bolshevik party school in longjumeau, 1911.

Cathedral of christ the savior, moscow, ussr, early 1930s, shell of the cathedral blown up as part of anti-religion campaign, later site of moskva municipal swimming pool.

Portrait of russian revolutionary writer and philosopher, alexander radishchev (1749 - 1802), by a, laktionov.

Soviet military commanders klement voroshilov (left) and semyon budonny (budenny) in 1919, they led the first cavalry army in the civil war period.

Tank commander, junior lieutenant alexandra boiko, speaking to attendees of the fourth soviet women's anti-fascist meeting on august 20, 1944 at the tchaikovsky concert hall in moscow.