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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'.

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

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

Berel shereshnevsy, secretary of the communist party of vilna (vilnius) during german occupation, 1940s.

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.

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

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.

Nikita s, khrushchev first secretary of the central committe of the cpsu (communist party of soviet union) speaking at a rally in sofia, bulgaria in may 1962.

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).

International women's day, women (mainly textile workers) demonstrate on petrograd's (st, petersburg) nevsky prospect shortly after the establishment of a provisional government, russia, february 1917, the soldiers' families are demanding increased rations for the troops, the banner reads 'comrade workers and soldiers, support our demands'.

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

Nikita khrushchev and a soviet delegation visiting the people's own domain for seed production at schwaneberg-altenweddingen near magdeburg, gdr on august 11, 1957, left to right are: walter ulbricht; otto strube, director of the domain; khrushchev; alois pisnik, first secretary of the district leadership of magdeburg; and erich muckenburger, candidate of the politbureau of the central committee of the socialist unity party.

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.

World war 2, a,a, dneprovskaya, a famous scout and heroine of the leningrad front, is secretary of the battalion committee of the young communist league.

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.

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.

Bolshevik leader sergei mironovich kirov speaking at the 17th congress of the all-union communist party of bolsheviks in february 1934, ordzhonikidze is behind him on the left.

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.

Harvest time on a collective farm in the ussr, august 1947, trucks from the stalin collective farm in the stavropol territory taking grain to the state elevator, the banner reads 'first bread goes to the state'.

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

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.

Seated left to right - gdr prime minister willi stoph, political bureau member of the socialist unity party of germany (sed) central committee

Walter ulbricht of the gdr and josip broz tito, president of the socialist federal republic of yugoslavia and secretary general of the league of communists signing a joint statement on october 1, 1966, the signing occurred after their talks in which both parties agreed to elevate their diplomatic representations to embassies.

Anti-religious demonstration called the komsomol christmas organized by the young communist league (komsomol), moscow, ussr, 1923.

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).

Joseph stalin receiving a bouquet of flowers from engelsina (gelya) markizova, the 7-year-old daughter of the second secretary of the buryat-mongolian regional party committee in 1936, stalin had him executed the following year, her mother was arrested and exiled to kazakhstan where she died under suspicious circumstances in 1940.

Joseph stalin receiving a bouquet of flowers from engelsina (gelya) markizova, the 7-year-old daughter of the second secretary of the buryat-mongolian regional party committee in 1936, stalin had him executed the following year, her mother was arrested and exiled to kazakhstan where she died under suspicious circumstances in 1940.

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).

Grigoriy konstantinovich ordzhonikidze (sergo ordzhonikidze), leader of the communist party and soviet state, during the civil war.

tsar nicholas ll with his family (son, alexei and daughters, olga, maria, anastasia and tatiana) on the roof of the house in tobolsk where they were held in 1918 before being transferred to yekaterinberg (sverdlovsk) to be shot.

tsar nicholas ll with his family (son, alexei and daughters, olga, maria, anastasia and tatiana) on the roof of the house in tobolsk where they were held in 1918 before being transferred to yekaterinberg (sverdlovsk) to be shot.

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

Rozaliya zemlyachka (seated with glasses) during a purge trial at a co-operative in moscow, 1933, a leading bolshevik party member, she was one of the organizers of the 'red terror' during the civil war, she was responsible for the execution of thousands of white guard officers in the crimea after it was occupied by the red army in 1921.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

Kv-1 (klement voroshilov) tank, a group of civilians and red army men watch a new kv-1 tank that has just left the factory and will soon be on its way to the front, ussr, world war 2.

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.

The young communist league holding an anti-religious ceremony called the komsomol christmas in moscow, 1923.

Ruins of cathedral of christ the savior, blown up by order of stalin in 1933, moscow, ussr.

Left to right, standing: v,i, lenin, nikolai bukharin and grigory zinoviev talking during the 2nd congress of the communist international, 1920, moscow, soviet union.

A delegation of representatives of cultural and public organizations of north korea, headed by writer li gi en, president of the korean society for cultural relations with the ussr, arrived in leningrad on sepember 25, 1946.

A crowd gathered for the unvailing of a new monument to joseph stalin erected in front of the baltic railway station in leningrad, november 1949.

Walter ulbricht, socialist unity party deputy premier of the german democratic republic, 1948.

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

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.

The party-government delegation from the gdr arrive in moscow, 1959, walter ulbricht making a speech at vnukovo airfield as khrushchev looks on.

Bulgarian communist revolutionary george dimitrov, general secretary of the communist international.

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.

Show trials, workers of the dynamo factory voting for the condemnation of participants in the trotsky-zinoviev plot, 1936, the banner reads: 'wipe the trotsky-zinovievist band of murderers off the face of the earth - thats the judgement of the working people!'.

Anna kutuzova, a secretary at metropolitan vickers and a co-defendant, metro-vickers show trials, april 12 - 19, 1933.

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

Nikita Khrushchev (1894-1971), Russian Politician, First Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, Portrait, circa 1963

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

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

Workers of the krasny oktyabr iron and steel works back at work at the restored plant in stalingrad, ussr, 1940s.

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.

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.

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.

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

A kulak (so called rich peasant) being arrested while trying to hide grain requisitioned by the state, the red ludorvay collective farm, viatsky province, soviet union, 1930.

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

Nikita khrushchev meeting with mao zedong during the chinese people's republic delegation's visit to moscow in 1957.

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.

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.

Walter ulbricht speaking at an international press conference in east berlin, january 19, 1970, he underlined the attitude of the gdr to the cause of safeguarding peace by concluding a treaty on the establishment of relations between the gdr and frg (east and west germany).

The delegation from the chinese people's republic, headed by mao zedong, arriving at vnukovo airport in moscow and being greeted by nikita khrushchev, november 2, 1957, they have come to participate in the celebrations of the 40th anniversary of the great october socialist revolution.

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.

Walter ulbricht speaking at an international press conference in east berlin, january 19, 1970, he underlined the attitude of the gdr to the cause of safeguarding peace by concluding a treaty on the establishment of relations between the gdr and frg (east and west germany).

Walter ulbricht speaking at an international press conference in east berlin, january 19, 1970, he underlined the attitude of the gdr to the cause of safeguarding peace by concluding a treaty on the establishment of relations between the gdr and frg (east and west germany).

World war 2, a russian partisan in the leningrad region kissing his mother good-bye before leaving with his detachment.

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

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.

The north korean government delegation passing the honor guard at yaraslavl station upon their arrival in moscow, 1949(?), (left to right: kim il sung, a,i, mikoyan, a,a, gromyko, pak heun yung (pak hen yen).

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

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.

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.

A,y, vishinsky signing the treaty of friendship, alliance, and mutual assistance between the soviet union and the chinese people's republic in 1950, (left to right: a,a, gromyko, n,a, bulganin, n,v, roshchin, chou enlai, a,i, mikoyan, n, khrushchev, k, voroshilov, v,m, molotov, stalin, mao zedong, b,v, podtserop, n,t, fedorenko, wang cha hsiang, g,m, malenkov, cheng po ta, l,p, beria, mr, azizov, and l,m, kaganovich).

World war 2, signs put up by the germans in the public places of warsaw, sign on the left reads: entrance to poles forbidden, sign on the right reads: playground for german children only, august 1941.

Red army soldier guarding a factory in the 1920s.

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.

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 Italian Communist Party headquarters in Rosarno

Mao zedong, n,s, khrushchev, n,a, bulganin, a,i, mikoyan, m,a, suslov, kim il sung, v, siroki (czechoslovakia), and enver hoxha (albania) on the tribune of the lenin-stalin mausoleum during the november 7th parade, 1957.

A young boy at the sambo-70 sports school lifting weights as he trains to be a sambo wrestler, russia, 1991.

In the name of peace' a painting by soviet artists v, vikhtinsky, b, zhukov, e, levin, l, chernov, and l, shmatkov

A rally of thousands of russian soldiers and civilians in front of the winter palace in petrograd ( st, petersburg ), protected by the red guard who are shown in the foreground, they were composed of civilians who siezed guns wherever they could be found and rushed to the support of the bolsheviks.

Commander of the black sea fleet, rear-admiral oktyabrsky (center) on board the cruiser krasny krim, april 1942.

A basic literacy class given at the club of the krasny bogatyr works (factory) in moscow, 1932.

Order-bearers captain polina osipenko (co-pilot and commander of the plane), deputy to the supreme soviet of the ussr valentina grizodubova (navigator), and senior lieutenant marina raskova right before their historic flight, they set a world record for non-stop direct flight by women when they flew a tupolev db2/ant37 aircraft named rodina 6,000 kilometres (3,700 miles) from moscow to komsomolsk-on-amur, on the south-eastern tip of siberia, september 24, 1938.

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.

A religious ceremony in the jewish synagogue in the warsaw ghetto before the warsaw uprising, world war 2, poland.

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.

A monument to sergei mironovich kirov in leningrad, 1939.

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

Walter duranty (front row, center), public prosecutor vyshinski is standing and a,j cummings, news chronicle is to his right, metro-vickers show trials, april 12 - 19, 1933.

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.

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

Leonid Ilich Brezhnev (1906-82), Russian Politician, General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (1964-82), Portrait, circa 1965

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.

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

Mao zedong, chairman of the central committee of the communist party of china, standing on a beach by the ocean.

Workers of the turbine shop of the kirov plant in leningrad listen to a verbatim report of the trial of the trotskyist-zinovievist terrorist center,1936.

The gird-x rocket, the ussr's first liquid-propellant rocket, prior to it's launch on november 25, 1933

Spanish Civil Guards questioning a Communist.

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.

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.

World war 2, men of a soviet garrison in germany marching to the drill grounds, july 1945, sign reads: 'approach learning the same way as one would approach going to battle,'.

General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union

Harvest time on a collective farm in the ussr, august 1947, workers of the vakhitov collective farm taking grain to an elevator in the tatar autonomous soviet socialist republic, the banner reads 'bread from the first harvest goes to the state'.

Mao zedong (tse tung) and zhu de (chu te) in yenan communist mountain stronghold about 1937, after the long march, sino-japanese war.

A monument to josef stalin, designed by sculptor sergei merkurov, standing at the entrance to the moskva-volga canal.

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

Nevsky prospect and sadovaya street in leningrad, july 1947.

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

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

world war ll, composer dmitri shostakovich (right), member of the volunteer fire fighting squad of the leningrad conservatory, during a drill in which he and the other teachers learn to handle incendiary bombs.

World war 2, battle of stalingrad, red army soldiers fighting in the ruins of the krasny oktyabr (red october) factory in stalingrad, january 1943.

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

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

All-slav committee gives reception to leaders of the polish republic, colonel-general m, rola-zymierski, commander-in-chief of the polish army, speaks of the friendship between the soviet union and the polish peoples and the fellowship in arms of the polish and soviet armies, h, minc is on the right.

German soldiers taken prisoner in the area of narva on the leningrad front, world war 2, march 1944.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

Soviet red army soldiers with us-made jeeps on the way to the front, world war 2, american aid, lend lease program.

Soviet red army anti tank unit in us-made jeeps on the way to the front, world war 2, american aid, lend lease program.

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.

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.

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.

Nevsky prospect, leningrad, ussr, 1952.

The crowd acclaiming the Italian Communist Party leaders

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.

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.

The seagull' by anton chekhov, moscow art theatre production, left to right: luzhsky as dorn; v, meyerhold as treplev; roksanova as nina.

Deported peasants and political prisoners used as slave labor to build the white sea - baltic canal (belomarkanal) in northern european russia, ussr, 1932.

Evacuated factory machinery arriving at the kirov plant in the urals from the western front, before the war, the plant built railway cars, now, it will be producing tanks, 1941 or 1942.

V,i, lenin (left, standing) addresses the 3rd congress of the communist interantional, (conintern) andreevsky hall, kremlin, mosscow, soviet union, june-july 1921.

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.

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.

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

German death factory near lublin, in majdanek hitlerites built a concentration camp, in which they tortured to death hundreds of thousands of civilians, war prisoners and political prisoners -- poles, russians, czechs, frenchmen, jews, greeks and representatives of other nationalities, photo shows: 'road of death' along which prisoners went on their last journey to the furnaces, in which germans burnt them, august 1944.

Second all-slav meeting in moscow, signing a message to the slavic peoples: at the table, stelia blagoeva, bulgarian leader (left), also pictured (l, to r,) are polish writer wanda wasilewska, composer dmitri shostakovich, croat leader duro salaj, byelorussian poet yakub kolas, yugoslav poet radule stijenski, leningrad writer nikolai tikhonov, warsaw writer alexandr ioczis, and others.

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

Repairs to the outside of the hermitaage museum in leningrad, damaged by nazi shelling during the leningrad seige, world war 2, 1945.

Some Italian Communist Party militants at the Festa dell'Unita

Communist militia force enters Madrid to fight for the city.

World war 2, harbin, japanese soldiers stacking ammunition to be turned over to the red army, 1945.

World war 2, miners fixing a 15 ton winch to be able to resume work at the donbass mines, ukraine.

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

Black sea fleet, soviet battleship krasny kavkaz during exercises, june 1939.

Journalists william strang (?) and a,j, cummings at the metro-vickers show trials, april 12 - 19, 1933.

Leningrad blockade during world war ll, poster reads: 'death to the child murderers!'.

Such was the inglorious end of the nazi campaign against the soviet union, shown here are columns of war prisoners marching despondently through the streets of moscow, 1945.

Hero of the soviet union, sargeant major mikhail korotov, atank driver and mechanic who was one of the first red army men to enter berlin, may 1945, before the war he was a tractor driver.

Red army troops advancing on the leningrad front, october 1942.

World war 2, russian partisan scouts in the leningrad region.

World war 2, russian partisans in the leningrad region.

General secretary of the union of soviet writers, a,a, fedeyev, speaking at the funeral of solomon mikhoels in january 1948.

Saxaul seeds delivered by camel caravan to the airport to be loaded onto an aeroflot polikarpov po-2 (u-2), the plane will sow the seeds by air to propagate a forest of the shrub-like tree in the desert, turkmenistan, ussr, 1963.

Stalingrad, september 1942, the crossing of the akhtuba river, volga’s left branch, world war two.

Red army soldiers fighting in ruins of krasny oktyabr (red october) works (factory), stalingrad, ussr, january 1943, world war 2.

World war 2, leningrad region, partisans marching towards leningrad to meet up with red army troops, march 1944.

Instruments placed in the noseof sputnik 2 for the measurement of solar radiation in the hard spectrum, there were three photo-electric telescopes set at 120 degrees to each other so that one would be pointed at the sun at any given time, each telescope was covered with filters of thin metallic and organic materials making it possible to single out the different bands of the ultra short wave spectrum and particularly the ultraviolet and x-ray bands, 1957.

An Italian Communist Party rally

Signing of stratetic arms limitation talks treaty (salt 1) in the kremlin, moscow, ussr, on may 26th, 1972, principle signatories: richard nixon, president of the united states and leonid brezhnev, general secretary of cpsu.

A medical team (barefoot doctors) led by communist party member ma yi is active in the wuchih mountains area, serving the peasants of the li nationality, china, 1968, cultural revolution.

Monument to joseph stalin at the entrance to the nevinnomisk canal, 1950.

Monument to joseph stalin erected at the entrance to the lenin volga-don shipping canal, 1952.

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

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

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

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

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

Yugoslav army reservists resting before entering bosnian town of visegrad, 170 km south of belgrade, war, 1992, yugoslavia.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

Tsar ivan lli (ivan the great).

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.

Dismantled factory machinery ready for shipment to the urals, 1941.

The north korean government delegation attending the fifth session of the supreme soviet of the ussr - a joint sitting of the soviet of the union and the soviet of nationalities, march 1949, sitting in the balcony are pak heun yung (pak hen yen) (in glasses), and kim il sung.

The novorossisk port demolished by the german fascist barbarians, krasnodar region, northern caucasus, 1943.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.