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Bolsheviks Seize Power
Kronstadt Uprising
Death of Lenin
Collectivization
Soviet Champagne
Year of the Stakhanovite
Great Fergana Canal
Orthodox Patriarch Appointed
End of Rationing
Virgin Lands Campaign
Khrushchev's Secret Speech
First Cosmonaut
Crisis in Czechoslovakia
Seventeen Moments in Spring
Moscow Doesn't Believe in Tears
Meltdown in Chernobyl
End of the Soviet Union
1917:
Music box (1917)
Events
February Revolution
Formation of the Soviets
April Crisis
Revolution in the Army
July Days
Kornilov Affair
Bolsheviks Seize Power
First Bolshevik Decrees
Constituent Assembly
Treaty of Brest Litovsk
Four kinds of states
Communist Party Building
Economic Apparatus
Building the Soviets
Red Guard into Army
State Security
Disintegration of the old society
Depopulation of the Cities
Food Supply
Conflict with the Church
Death of the Old Culture
Destruction of the Left
The Empire Falls
Creation of a new society
New Letters and Dates
Culture and Revolution
The New Woman
Workers Organization
Peasant Revolution
Organs of the Press
Raising Socialist Youth
1921:
Music box (1921)
Comintern
Confiscating Church Gold
Death of a Poet
Electrification Campaign
Famine of 1921-22
Homeless Children
Kronstadt Uprising
Militarization of Labor
The Muslim East
The New Economic Policy
The Antonov Rebellion
ROSTA Windows Close
Tenth Party Congress
Trade Pacts with the West
Transcaucasia
Workers' Opposition
1924:
Music box (1924)
Antireligious Propaganda
Chervontsy
Death of Lenin
Industrialization Debate
Lenin Enrollment
Lenin's Succession
Living Church
Nepmen
Scissors Crisis
Socialist Cinema
Socialist Legality
Union Treaty
Workers' Clubs
Young Communists
1929:
Music box (1929)
Chinese Railway Incident
Churches Closed
Collectivization
Magnetic Mountain
Maiakovskii's Bathhouse
Making Central Asia Soviet
New Way of Life
Proletarian Writers
Shock Workers
Year of Great Change
1934:
Music box (1934)
All Stalin's Men
Birobidzhan
The Kirov Affair
The Moscow Metro
Pavlik Morozov
Physical Culture
Popular Film Industry
Seventeenth Party Congress
Socialist Realism
Soviet Champagne
Writers' Congress
1936:
Music box (1936)
Childhood under Stalin
Creation of the Ethnic Republics
Abolition of Legal Abortion
The Great Terror
Pilots and Explorers
Popular Front
Rebuilding of Moscow
Rehabilitation of Cossack Divisions
Second Kolkhoz Charter
Stalin Constitution
Upheaval in the Opera
Year of the Stakhanovite
1939:
Music box (1939)
Aleksandr Gerasimov
All-Union Agricultural Exhibition
Cult of Personality
Great Fergana Canal
Labor Discipline
The Lost Census
The New Patriotism
Soviet Territorial Annexations
Tractor Drivers
1943:
Music box (1943)
900 Days
Battle of Kursk
The Cult of Leadership
Deportation of Minorities
End of the Comintern
Epaulettes Back on Uniforms
Holocaust
Katyn Forest Massacre
Love and Romance in War
Orthodox Patriarch Appointed
The Nazi Tide Stops
New National Anthem
Partisans in the Forest
The Strange Alliance
The Vlasov Movement
Wartime Evacuation
Women in War Films
1947:
Music box (1947)
Cars for Comrades
Cold War
Cominform and the Soviet Bloc
Eight-Hundred Years of Moscow
End of Rationing
Estonia Sings
Famine of 1946-1947
Triumph of T. D. Lysenko
The New Curriculum
Ukraine after the War
Veterans Return
Xenophobia
Year of Laktionov
Zhdanov
1954:
Music box (1954)
The Gift of Crimea
Hydrogen Bomb
Prisoners Return
Stilyaga
Succession to Stalin
The Thaw
Virgin Lands Campaign
What's a Woman to Think?
1956:
Music box (1956)
Akademgorodok
The Anti-Party Group
Dachas
Hungarian Crisis
International Youth Festival
Khrushchev's Secret Speech
Labor Reforms
Launch of Sputnik
Literary Life at a Crossroads
The Palace of Sport
Repealing the Ban on Abortion
War Films
1961:
Music box (1961)
Anti-Parasite Law
Fight Against Superstition
Bratsk
Bulat Okudzhava
Corn Campaign
First Cosmonaut
Khrushchev on the Arts
The Khrushchev Slums
Moral Code of the Builder of Communism
Novocherkassk Massacre
Thaw Poets
1968:
Music box (1968)
The Chinese Border
Crisis in Czechoslovakia
The Double Burden
Generation Gap
Exiled Peoples Return
The Limits of Expression
The Responsive Economy
The Russian Village
Strugatsky Brothers
Third World Friendships
Tol'iatti
1973:
Music box (1973)
The Dissident Movement
The Pessimistic Citizen
Rock Goes Russian
Seventeen Moments in Spring
Shakeup in the Republics
Snowball-Berry Red
Soviet Consumerism
1980:
Music box (1980)
BAM
Our Little Father
Cleaning up Baikal
Vladimir Vysotsky
Drawing Together
The Dying Russian Village
Il'ia Glazunov
Invasion of Afghanistan
Moscow Doesn't Believe in Tears
Moscow Olympics
Sakharov Exiled
Sixth All-Union Census
Solidarity in Poland
Underground Economy
1985:
Music box (1985)
The Afghans
Anti-Alcohol Campaign
Cooperatives
Desiccation of the Aral Sea
Female Sexuality
Gorbachev and Nationalism
The Guys from Liubers
The Leningrad Rock Scene
The Lost Movies
Meltdown in Chernobyl
Perestroika and Glasnost
Turbulent Youth
1991:
Music box (1991)
Warsaw Pact Dissolves
Baltic Independence
Eltsin and Russian Sovereignty
500 Days
Shevarnadze Resigns
Miners' Strike of 1991
March Referendum
Nine Plus One Agreement
The August Coup
End of the Soviet Union
1917:
Music box (1917)
Events
February Revolution
Formation of the Soviets
April Crisis
Revolution in the Army
July Days
Kornilov Affair
Bolsheviks Seize Power
First Bolshevik Decrees
Constituent Assembly
Treaty of Brest Litovsk
Four kinds of states
Communist Party Building
Economic Apparatus
Building the Soviets
Red Guard into Army
State Security
Disintegration of the old society
Depopulation of the Cities
Food Supply
Conflict with the Church
Death of the Old Culture
Destruction of the Left
The Empire Falls
Creation of a new society
New Letters and Dates
Culture and Revolution
The New Woman
Workers Organization
Peasant Revolution
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Military
Nationalities
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Propaganda
Religion
Science & Nature
Workers
Youth
Depopulation of the Cities
Formation of the Soviets
Peasant Revolution
Economic Apparatus
Socialist Cinema
Death of the Old Culture
The New Woman
Treaty of Brest Litovsk
State Security
Death of a Poet
Red Guard into Army
The Empire Falls
Destruction of the Left
Organs of the Press
New Letters and Dates
Electrification Campaign
Workers Organization
Raising Socialist Youth
Cities:
1917: Depopulation of the Cities
1917: Food Supply
1924: Nepmen
1929: New Way of Life
1934: The Moscow Metro
1936: Rebuilding of Moscow
1943: 900 Days
1943: The Nazi Tide Stops
1947: Eight-Hundred Years of Moscow
1956: Akademgorodok
1961: The Khrushchev Slums
1968: Tol'iatti
1973: The Pessimistic Citizen
1980: Moscow Olympics
1985: The Guys from Liubers
Communist Party:
1917: Formation of the Soviets
1917: Communist Party Building
1921: Tenth Party Congress
1924: Lenin Enrollment
1924: Lenin's Succession
1934: Seventeenth Party Congress
1934: All Stalin's Men
1936: The Great Terror
1939: Cult of Personality
1943: End of the Comintern
1947: Zhdanov
1954: Succession to Stalin
1956: Khrushchev's Secret Speech
1980: Our Little Father
1985: Perestroika and Glasnost
1991: The August Coup
Countryside:
1917: Peasant Revolution
1921: Famine of 1921-22
1921: The Antonov Rebellion
1924: Scissors Crisis
1929: Collectivization
1936: Second Kolkhoz Charter
1939: All-Union Agricultural Exhibition
1943: Partisans in the Forest
1947: Famine of 1946-1947
1954: Virgin Lands Campaign
1956: Dachas
1961: Corn Campaign
1968: The Russian Village
1980: The Dying Russian Village
Economics:
1917: Economic Apparatus
1921: The New Economic Policy
1924: Chervontsy
1929: Year of Great Change
1934: Soviet Champagne
1943: Wartime Evacuation
1947: End of Rationing
1961: Bratsk
1968: The Responsive Economy
1973: Soviet Consumerism
1980: Underground Economy
1985: Cooperatives
1991: 500 Days
Film:
1924: Socialist Cinema
1934: Popular Film Industry
1939: Tractor Drivers
1943: Women in War Films
1956: War Films
1968: The Limits of Expression
1973: Seventeen Moments in Spring
1973: Snowball-Berry Red
1980: Moscow Doesn't Believe in Tears
1985: The Lost Movies
Fine Arts:
1917: Death of the Old Culture
1921: ROSTA Windows Close
1929: Maiakovskii's Bathhouse
1934: Socialist Realism
1936: Upheaval in the Opera
1939: Aleksandr Gerasimov
1943: New National Anthem
1947: Year of Laktionov
1961: Khrushchev on the Arts
1973: Rock Goes Russian
1980: Il'ia Glazunov
1985: The Leningrad Rock Scene
Gender:
1917: The New Woman
1936: Abolition of Legal Abortion
1943: Love and Romance in War
1954: What's a Woman to Think?
1956: Repealing the Ban on Abortion
1961: Moral Code of the Builder of Communism
1968: The Double Burden
1980: Moscow Doesn't Believe in Tears
1985: Female Sexuality
International:
1917: Treaty of Brest Litovsk
1921: Comintern
1921: Trade Pacts with the West
1936: Popular Front
1939: Soviet Territorial Annexations
1943: The Strange Alliance
1947: Cold War
1947: Cominform and the Soviet Bloc
1956: Hungarian Crisis
1968: Crisis in Czechoslovakia
1968: Third World Friendships
1980: Solidarity in Poland
1991: Warsaw Pact Dissolves
Law & Society:
1917: State Security
1924: Socialist Legality
1936: Stalin Constitution
1939: Labor Discipline
1954: Prisoners Return
1961: Anti-Parasite Law
Literature:
1921: Death of a Poet
1929: Proletarian Writers
1934: Writers' Congress
1954: The Thaw
1956: Literary Life at a Crossroads
1961: Thaw Poets
1968: Strugatsky Brothers
1980: Vladimir Vysotsky
Military:
1917: Red Guard into Army
1917: Revolution in the Army
1921: Kronstadt Uprising
1929: Chinese Railway Incident
1936: Rehabilitation of Cossack Divisions
1943: Battle of Kursk
1943: Epaulettes Back on Uniforms
1947: Veterans Return
1954: Hydrogen Bomb
1968: The Chinese Border
1980: Invasion of Afghanistan
1985: The Afghans
Nationalities:
1917: The Empire Falls
1921: The Muslim East
1921: Transcaucasia
1924: Union Treaty
1929: Making Central Asia Soviet
1934: Birobidzhan
1936: Creation of the Ethnic Republics
1939: Great Fergana Canal
1943: Deportation of Minorities
1943: Holocaust
1947: Estonia Sings
1954: The Gift of Crimea
1968: Exiled Peoples Return
1973: Shakeup in the Republics
1980: Drawing Together
1985: Gorbachev and Nationalism
1991: Baltic Independence
1991: March Referendum
1991: Nine Plus One Agreement
1991: Eltsin and Russian Sovereignty
Opposition:
1917: Destruction of the Left
1921: Kronstadt Uprising
1921: Workers' Opposition
1934: The Kirov Affair
1936: The Great Terror
1943: The Vlasov Movement
1947: Ukraine after the War
1956: The Anti-Party Group
1961: Bulat Okudzhava
1973: The Dissident Movement
1980: Sakharov Exiled
1991: The August Coup
Propaganda:
1917: Organs of the Press
1917: Culture and Revolution
1924: Death of Lenin
1929: Shock Workers
1934: Pavlik Morozov
1939: The New Patriotism
1943: The Cult of Leadership
1947: Xenophobia
1956: The Palace of Sport
1961: First Cosmonaut
1980: BAM
1985: Anti-Alcohol Campaign
Religion:
1917: New Letters and Dates
1917: Conflict with the Church
1921: Confiscating Church Gold
1921: The Muslim East
1924: Antireligious Propaganda
1924: Living Church
1929: Churches Closed
1934: Birobidzhan
1939: The Lost Census
1943: Orthodox Patriarch Appointed
1961: Fight Against Superstition
Science & Nature:
1921: Electrification Campaign
1929: Magnetic Mountain
1936: Pilots and Explorers
1947: Triumph of T. D. Lysenko
1954: Hydrogen Bomb
1956: Launch of Sputnik
1961: First Cosmonaut
1980: Cleaning up Baikal
1985: Desiccation of the Aral Sea
1985: Meltdown in Chernobyl
Workers:
1917: Workers Organization
1921: Militarization of Labor
1924: Industrialization Debate
1929: Magnetic Mountain
1936: Year of the Stakhanovite
1939: Labor Discipline
1947: Cars for Comrades
1956: Labor Reforms
1961: Novocherkassk Massacre
1991: Miners' Strike of 1991
Youth:
1917: Raising Socialist Youth
1921: Homeless Children
1924: Workers' Clubs
1924: Young Communists
1934: Physical Culture
1936: Childhood under Stalin
1947: The New Curriculum
1954: Stilyaga
1956: International Youth Festival
1961: Thaw Poets
1968: Generation Gap
1973: Rock Goes Russian
1985: Turbulent Youth
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A Peasant Interlude
Photos of the Russian Countryside in 1918
Start with First Image: Peasant Revolution (1918)
