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Stalin’s Rope Roads

Stalin’s Rope Roads

"People who had never been there, and who possibly never could go there, spoke of Georgia with a kind of longing and a great admiration. They spoke of Georgians as supermen, as great drinkers, great dancers, great musicians, great workers and lovers. And they spoke of the country in the Caucasus and around the Black Sea as a kind of second heaven" - John Steinbeck, A Russian Journal ...
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Girl At The May Day Parade – Lviv 1968

Girl At The May Day Parade – Lviv 1968

Who was the girl in this fantastic snapshot from the Soviet Union? ...
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61 Sensational Soviet Space Posters

61 Sensational Soviet Space Posters

In the 1950s and 1960s the Soviet Union assured the great unwashed that ploughing fortunes into the space race was good for them ...
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Finding Dmitry: The Magical Story Of A Russian Boy’s Photos

Finding Dmitry: The Magical Story Of A Russian Boy’s Photos

I found an undeveloped film in an old Soviet camera, got the images developed and found 19 black & white photos of a boy and his first day at school. I decided to find him almost 30 years later... ...
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Soviet Fashion: Style Pages from 1980s U.S.S.R.

Soviet Fashion: Style Pages from 1980s U.S.S.R.

Were Soviet women dressed in drab, utilitarian garb - not according to their fashion magazines. ...
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Is This Tomorrow? A Red Scare Comic Book from 1947

Is This Tomorrow? A Red Scare Comic Book from 1947

In 1947 the Catechetical Guild Educational Society in St. Paul, Minnesota put out this warning ...
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Russian Illustrations For Tolkien’s The Hobbit (1976)

Russian Illustrations For Tolkien’s The Hobbit (1976)

In 1976, Mikhail Belomlinsky (born St Petersburg 1934), a graduate of the revered St. Petersburg ...
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Brutal Soviet Antireligious Propaganda

Brutal Soviet Antireligious Propaganda

  The Soviet Union aimed to eliminate religion. In the 1920s and 1930s, Soviets attacked every ...
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Soviet Style ’86: Russian Fashion from the Year of Chernobyl

Soviet Style ’86: Russian Fashion from the Year of Chernobyl

From the year of the worst nuclear reactor accident in history, the Chernobyl disaster of ...
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The Great Break: The Russian Peasant Becomes The Collective Farmer (1920-1931)

The Great Break: The Russian Peasant Becomes The Collective Farmer (1920-1931)

The Great Break. From the surplus to total collectivization - these photos record the transformation ...
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Children’s World: A Russian Fashion Show From 1958

Children’s World: A Russian Fashion Show From 1958

An unusual series of photos of children behind the Iron Curtain ...
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Absurd Fashions From A 1980s Stasi Disguise Seminar

Absurd Fashions From A 1980s Stasi Disguise Seminar

In 1989, 91,015 comrades worked directly for the Stasi (short for Staatssicherheitsdienst, or State Security ...
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