"The Heart of Our Great Country", by V.F. Stranikh, 1977.

A group of Kazakh women at literacy classes in the Red Yurt in 1931

"Guardians of the Peaceful Sky." - Painting by M.A. Ananyev, 1977

Mobile library on a field camp on the collective farm named after Karl Marx, Issyk-Kul region of the Kirghiz SSR in 1979

Presidium of the People's Assembly of Western Ukraine, Lviv, 1939

Lenin with Georgy Pyatakov, a future leader of the Left Opposition, in Gorky. 24 September 1922

Soviet servicemen beneath a giant portrait of Stalin in Königsberg/Kaliningrad, probably 1945–46.

Execution of traitors to the Motherland in liberated Smolensk. USSR, 1943. Photo by Mark Redkin.

Academician Abram Ioffe in the Semiconductor Thermal Devices Laboratory. USSR, Leningrad, 1960. Photo by Viktor Fedotov.

"Meeting in the Forest." - Painting by G.K. Savitsky, 1937

A priest supporting the partisans speaks at a rally in a village. Ukrainian SSR, Rivne Oblast, 1943-1944.

Soviet poster "Towards communism along Lenin's course!", 1963.

"Conscripts", 1970s. Artist: G.V. Loiko.

"At the Soviet Cosmodrome" "- Belka and Strelka have arrived... The next one, prepare to board...", Soviet cartoon, 1960

Conductor Jamal Alimukhamedov of the "Uzbekistan" train, 1982. Photo by V. Dubrovsky

Red Army soldiers of the 225th International (Chinese) Regiment of the Red Army. Civil war in Russia.

"Long live the united cooperative front of workers of the entire world against international capital. Workers of the world, unite! In unity there is strength!", Soviet Poster, 1924

Fyodor Fyodorovich Raskolnikov, Sergei Mironovich Kirov, and Grigory Konstantinovich Ordzhonikidze. Russian Civil War. Southeastern Front. 1920

At a picnic. Marshal Khorloogiin Choibalsan and Ivanov Ivan Alekseevich, who served as Soviet ambassador to Mongolia from September 19, 1939 to October 9, 1947. Mongolian People's Republic, 1941

L.E. Kerbel and an assistant at work on the monument to V.I. Lenin. Smolensk, USSR, 1967.