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

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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).

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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'.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

Vsevolod meyerhold, russian theater director, 1922-23, soviet union.

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.

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.

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.

Pilot soviet-made semi-automatic textile machines are being assembled at the karl marx factory, leningrad, soviet union, 1924.

Vladimir mayakovsky, soviet poet, playwright and graphic artist (1894-1930) with some of his propaganda posters, this photo was taken two months before his death.

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

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).

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

Museum workers at the hermitage museum in leningrad work to save the priceless art treasures damaged by nazi shelling of the building, seige of leningrad, world war 2.

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.

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

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.

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.

Women factory workers, soviet union, 1930s.

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.

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

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.

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

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).

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

Nina shmeleva, the first woman working as a railshoe-brakeman at the leningrad railroad yards, ussr, 1940.

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.

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

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

St, isaac's cathedral in leningrad, july 1931.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

Soviet health resorts, workers undergoing quartz and sun-ray treatment in the light therapy room of the skala sanatorium at kislovodsk, may 1951.

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.

The book palace, nevsky prospect, leningrad, ussr, august 1947.

Nevsky prospect and sadovaya street in leningrad, july 1947.

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

A post-war meeting of workers at the kirov factory discussing plans for production necessary to complete the five-year-plan in four, this factory has been decorated three times, leningrad, ussr, 1946.

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.

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

Vladimir mayakovsky (1893-1930), soviet poet, playwright and propagandist.

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

Sergei mikhalkov, soviet poet and playwright, co-author with stalin of the soviet national anthem, 1950.

Russian civilians brought to nazi germany as slave laborers returning to the soviet union after the end of the european phase of world war 2, magdenburg, germany, may 1945.

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

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

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

Cabbages growing in a kitchen garden in front of st, isaac's cathedral in leningrad during the siege of the city, world war 2, ussr.

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

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

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

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

Soviet film director, dziga vertov (1896 - 1954).

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

Sergei mikhalkov, soviet poet and playwright, co-author with stalin of the soviet national anthem, photo: 1946.

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

Soviet writer and satirist, mikhail zoshchenko in the early 1950s.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

All of the accused, soviet and british, which included allan monkhouse, leslie thornton, gregory, william macdonald, cushing and nordwall, the woman among them is anna kutuzova, metro-vickers show trials, april 12 - 19, 1933.

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.

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.

Sergei eisenstein (1898-1948), russian (soviet) film director.

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

Sergei mironovich kirov, kirov's apartment in leningrad (view from the dining room, through the library,towards the study), 1939.

A steel worker of the kuznetsk iron and steel works, ussr, 1930s.

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.

Technicians in protective suits lift empty case of chemical air bomb out of a discharge chamber after the chemical agent was drained, soviet military base of shikhany, saratov region, ussr, october 4th 1987, diplomats and military experts from 45 countries witnessed a mass decommiss-ioning of chemical weapons.

Automobiles (1929 ford type) leaving the assembly line of the molotov auto plant in gorky, ussr, 1930s.

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.

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

Soviet space probe mars 1 which was launched on november 1, 1962.

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

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.

L, kaganovich oil fields in baku, azerbaijan ssr, late 1930s.

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.

Sergei mironovich kirov, kirov's study at the smolny in leningrad, ussr, 1939.

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

The house in gori, soviet georgia where joseph stalin was born - now a museum, 1948.

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

Funeral of soviet politician mikhail ivanovich kalinin, 1946, pallbearers, from left: malenkov, beria, molotov, stalin.

Vladimir mayakovsky (1893-1930), soviet poet, playwright and propagandist, mayakovsky as a young man in 1910.

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

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

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.

Military identification card (front and back) of francis gary powers, pilot of the u2 spy plane shot down over soviet territory in may, 1960.

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

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.

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.

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.

Soviet sailors swimming with floats with portraits of stalin in celebration of ussr navy day, sevastopol, ussr, july, 1950.

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.

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.

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.

Grigoriy konstantinovich ordzhonikidze (sergo ordzhonikidze) speaking and giving details of the program for developement of basic industries under the new five-year-plan at the congress of the russian communist party.

Soviet composer, dmitri shostakovich, on the train on his way home to moscow after the first performance of his 12th symphony 'the year 1917' by the leningrad philharmonic.

Soviet people who were held in captivity in germany and forced to work as civilian slaves returning to russia after their liberation, world war 2.

Russian singer fyodor shalyapin in the 1930s.

Soviet composer, dmitri shostakovich, working at his piano, 1950, he won the stalin prize for his oratorio 'song of the woods' and the music to the film 'the fall of berlin'.

Alexei Ivanovich Rykov (1881 1938) Russian Bolshevik revolutionary and a Soviet politician most prominent as Premier of Russia and the Soviet Union from 1924 to 1929 and 1924 to 1930 respectively

Soviet sailors paying their respects at the monument to russian soldiers killed during the defense of the russian fortress at port arthur in 1904 during the russo-japanese war, the picture was taken in 1945, just following the japanese surrender of port arthur.

Soviet socialist realism, painting of heroic women workers shoveling coal in a rail yard, ussr, 1950s.

Visitors examining the painting 'in the name of peace' by soviet artists v, vikhtinsky, b, zhukov, e, levin, l, chernov, and l, shmatkov at the exhibition of ukrainian fine arts in the tretyakov gallery in moscow, july 1951.

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.

Soviet health spa, miners of the sophia colliery in the stalino region of the ukraine receiving inhalation treatment at a new facility, the network of medical and prophylactic institutions is growing steadily, new dispensaries and polyclinics with the latest equipment have been opened in mining districts, august 1952.

Leon trotsky (lev davidovich bronstein), 1879-1940, soviet revolutionary, as a young man before the russian revolution.

William c, bullitt (in the back seat), the first united states ambassador to the soviet union, in front of the hotel leningrad in moscow, 1934.

Soviet composer, dmitri shostakovich, backstage listening to the first performance of his 12th symphony 'the year 1917' being played by the leningrad philharmonic.

Ekaterina dzhugashvili, joseph stalin's mother.

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

Banquet hall of the catherine palace (ekaterina palace), tsarskoe selo, leningrad region, ussr, destroyed by nazis, german army, world war 2.

The bath house' by vladimir mayakovsky, a scene from act 6, produced by v, meyerhold at the meyerhold state theatre, moscow, ussr, 1930.

The bed bug' by vladimir mayakovsky, act 1, 1929 production by v, meyerhold at the meyerhold gostheatr (state theater), moscow, ussr.

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

Soviet health spa, the dancing pavillion at the ivanovo textile workers' rest home, september 1949.

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

Oil fields of baku, azerbaijan ssr, 1920s.

Hero of the soviet union, lieutenant colonel fyodor kotanov of the red navy.

Tsar ivan lli (ivan the great).

Black sea fleet, a soviet sailor on watch at the battleship paris commune, march 1943.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

Soviet women being taught to read and write during a literacy drive in the early 1930s, ussr.

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.

The site of the tunguska meteorite fall of 1908 in siberia as it looked in 1929.