Union Of Soviet Socialist Republics Collection

Lenin, (c1930), (1939). Creator: Aleksandr Gerasimov
Lenin, (c1930), (1939). Portrait of Russian communist revolutionary Vladimir Ilich Lenin (1870-1924). Lenin was the first Soviet head of state, prime minister of the USSR

Vladimir Ilich Lenin, Russian Bolshevik leader, in the Kremlin, Moscow, Russia, October 1918. Lenin (1870-1924) became leader of the Bolshevik faction of the Russian Social Democratic

Worker and Kolkhoz Woman, sculpture by Vera Mukhina, Moscow (b / w photo)
7200710 Worker and Kolkhoz Woman, sculpture by Vera Mukhina, Moscow (b/w photo) by Russian Photographer, (20th century); Private Collection; (add.info.: Worker and Kolkhoz Woman)

Vladimir Vysotsky, Russian singer, poet, and actor, 1979. Vysotsky (1938-1980), in the television mini-series The Meeting Place Cannot Be Changed

Woman with a Rake, 1928-1932. Artist: Kazimir Malevich
Woman with a Rake, 1928-1932. Found in the collection of the State Russian Museum, St Petersburg

Sergei Prokofiev, Dmitri Shostakovich and Aram Khachaturian, Russian composers, 1945. Prokofiev (1891-1953), Shostakovich (1906-1975) and Khachaturian (1903-1978)

Mass Demonstration in Moscow in 1917, 1917 (oil on canvas)
BAL174030 Mass Demonstration in Moscow in 1917, 1917 (oil on canvas) by Meshkov, Wassily (1867-1946); 55x55 cm; Art Museum of Ryasan

Classroom of a Soviet school, Moscow, 1946 (b / w photo)
7200757 Classroom of a Soviet school, Moscow, 1946 (b/w photo) by Russian Photographer, (20th century); Private Collection; (add.info.: Classroom in School no 70, Sverdlov District, Moscow, USSR)

Affiche du film Fragment d'Empire - Movie poster Fragment of an Empire by Friedrich Ermler , Anonymous
FIA5409749 Affiche du film Fragment d'Empire - Movie poster Fragment of an Empire by Friedrich Ermler , Anonymous, 1930 (lithograph); Russian State Library, Moscow

Russian delegation to the Anglo-Russian Conference, 1925 (b/w photo)
8673335 Russian delegation to the Anglo-Russian Conference, 1925 (b/w photo) by English Photographer, (20th century); Private Collection; (add.info)

Battle between Emperors Constantine I, (272-337) and Maxence (regne 306 to 312), 1840 (engraving)
PCT4268689 Battle between Emperors Constantine I, (272-337) and Maxence (regne 306 to 312), 1840 (engraving); (add.info.: Battle between Emperors Constantine I)

A fight between the Red and White Guard at a railway station, from Histoire des Soviets, pub. 1922 (colour litho)
3657951 A fight between the Red and White Guard at a railway station, from Histoire des Soviets, pub. 1922 (colour litho) by Carrey

Witch, Hungary 1909 (postcard)
1996169 Witch, Hungary 1909 (postcard); Photo © CCI.

A B Swales and Tomsky, British and Soviet Russian trade unionists (b/w photo)
8673320 A B Swales and Tomsky, British and Soviet Russian trade unionists (b/w photo) by English Photographer, (20th century); Private Collection; (add.info.: A B Swales and Mikhail Tomsky)

British tanks for Russia, 1942 (b/w photo)
8672636 British tanks for Russia, 1942 (b/w photo) by English Photographer, (20th century); Private Collection; (add.info.: British tanks being shipped to Russia, World War II, 1942)

Soviet Budenovka Winter Army Cap, 1920s-1930s (object)
7177609 Soviet Budenovka Winter Army Cap, 1920s-1930s (object); Private Collection; (add.info.: Famous style of Cap worn by the Red Army during the Russian Civil War and later); © Don Troiani

Storming the Winter Palace in Petrograd on 25th October, 1917, , 1927 (film still)
7167305 Storming the Winter Palace in Petrograd on 25th October, 1917, , 1927 (film still); Institute for the History of Material Culture, St

The End of the Provisional Government; Lenin's Red Guard on the streets of Petrograd, 1917 (b/w photo)
3331003 The End of the Provisional Government; Lenin's Red Guard on the streets of Petrograd, 1917 (b/w photo); (add.info.: Photograph of members of the Red Guards)

Like your job and you'll have a better future, Sovietic Revolution, c.1920 (poster)
1988886 Like your job and you'll have a better future, Sovietic Revolution, c.1920 (poster); (add.info.: History. Like your job and you'll have a better future)

Rally by unemployed workers in Hyde Park, London, 1931 (b/w photo)
8635309 Rally by unemployed workers in Hyde Park, London, 1931 (b/w photo) by English Photographer, (20th century); Private Collection; (add.info)

The Land of Freedom (litho)
8663502 The Land of Freedom (litho) by Poy (Percy Hutton Fearon) (1874-1945); Private Collection; (add.info.: The Land of Freedom)

Collectivization of breeding in USSR, ca 1930 (poster)
7422855 Collectivization of breeding in USSR, ca 1930 (poster); (add.info.: Agriculture. Collectivization of breeding in USSR. Poster, USSR, ca 1930.); © Archives Charmet.

The Truth about Russia (litho)
8673314 The Truth about Russia (litho) by Batho, Harold Outram (1888-1932); Private Collection; (add.info.: The Truth about Russia)

The defeat of Emperor Maxence who died on 28 October 312, during the Battle of the Milvius Bridge
ELD4963509 The defeat of Emperor Maxence who died on 28 October 312, during the Battle of the Milvius Bridge, 19th century (engraving); Private Collection; (add.info)

Soldier of the Red Army, c.1920 (poster)
8698336 Soldier of the Red Army, c.1920 (poster) by Spassky, Vassili (1873-1924); (add.info.: History. Russia (USSR). "Comrade, watch the bridges." Soldier of the Red Army before a bridge

Portrait of young Stalin, circa 1917 (b/w photo)
LSE4102097 Portrait of young Stalin, circa 1917 (b/w photo); Private Collection; Photo © Leonard de Selva.

Rally of unemployed workers in Hyde Park, London, 1931 (b/w photo)
8635299 Rally of unemployed workers in Hyde Park, London, 1931 (b/w photo) by English Photographer, (20th century); Private Collection; (add.info.: Rally of unemployed workers in Hyde Park, London)

Mikhail Tomsky, Soviet Russian trade unionist (b/w photo)
8673334 Mikhail Tomsky, Soviet Russian trade unionist (b/w photo) by English Photographer, (20th century); Private Collection; (add.info.: Mikhail Tomsky (1880-1936)

Soviet Budenovka Winter Army Cap, 1920s-1930s (object)
7177608 Soviet Budenovka Winter Army Cap, 1920s-1930s (object); Private Collection; (add.info.: Famous style of Cap worn by the Red Army during the Russian Civil War and later); © Don Troiani

Lenin addresses the units that go to the front to fight the white Poles, Sverdlov Square, Moscow, May 5
5304556 Lenin addresses the units that go to the front to fight the white Poles, Sverdlov Square, Moscow, May 5, 1920 (b/w photo); (add.info.: Vladimir Lenin addressing Red Army soldiers in Moscow)

Worker and Kolkhoz Woman, 1937 World's Fair in Paris (photo)
2636263 Worker and Kolkhoz Woman, 1937 World's Fair in Paris (photo) by Mukhina, Vera (1889-1953); Private Collection; (add.info.: Art. Architecture)

Russian Civil War (1919), 1922-23 (photo)
2525608 Russian Civil War (1919), 1922-23 (photo); (add.info.: History. Russia (USSR). Russian Civil War. Retreat of the White Army of Admiral Alexander Kolchak from Siberia, 1919

Wars of religion in France between protestants and catholics, 16th century (engraving)
1744805 Wars of religion in France between protestants and catholics, 16th century (engraving); (add.info.: Wars of religion in France between protestants)

The Monument to the Third International (Tatlin's Tower), 1920 (b/w photo)
3904356 The Monument to the Third International (Tatlin's Tower), 1920 (b/w photo) by Tatlin, Vladimir Evgrafovich (1885-1953); (add.info)

The Monument to the Third International (Tatlin's Tower), 1920 (b/w photo)
3904358 The Monument to the Third International (Tatlin's Tower), 1920 (b/w photo) by Tatlin, Vladimir Evgrafovich (1885-1953); (add.info)

Portrait of the Marshal of the Soviet Union and Poland, Konstantin Rokossovsky (1896-1968), 1944 (oil on canvas)
BAL266173 Portrait of the Marshal of the Soviet Union and Poland, Konstantin Rokossovsky (1896-1968), 1944 (oil on canvas) by Yakovlev

Certificate of completion of the first Soviet infantry command courses, issued to..., 1919. Creator: Unknown
Certificate of completion of the first Soviet infantry command courses, issued to Orbet Oscar Karlovich (1890-1961), 1919

The Japanese Army occupied Vragaeschensk, 1919. Creator: Unknown
The Japanese Army occupied Vragaeschensk, 1919. The Japanese army marching through Blagoveshchensk, Russia, with airplanes overhead.

A Postcard to Zh.Baiskich, 1918. Creator: Unknown
A Postcard to Zh.Baiskich, 1918. To recruit volunteers to work in Siberia, a "Kuzbass Bureau" was opened in the middle of New York City

The Japanese army occupied Habalofsk [i.e.Khabarovsk], Amur Fleet surrendered, c1919. Creator: Unknown
The Japanese army occupied Habalofsk [i.e.Khabarovsk], Amur Fleet surrendered, c1919.

Fighting between the cavalry and the war ships - The latter surrendered, 1919. Creator: Unknown
Fighting between the cavalry and the war ships - The latter surrendered, 1919. Japanese cavalry fighting Russian warships.

The Japanese cavalry advanced furiously in storm, c1919. Creator: Unknown
The Japanese cavalry advanced furiously in storm, c1919.

Removal of royal symbols from the building of the Triangle partnership, 1917. Creator: Unknown
Removal of royal symbols from the building of the Triangle partnership, 1917. From a collection of unique documentary photographs relating to the Russian Civil War in Siberia

The Japanese cavalry taken possession of Khabarovsk pursuing and attacking the enemies, c1919. Creator: Unknown
The Japanese cavalry taken possession of Khabarovsk pursuing and attacking the enemies, c1919.

Review of White Guard troops in Tomsk on September 22, 1918. Creator: Unknown
Review of White Guard troops in Tomsk on September 22, 1918. From a collection of unique documentary photographs relating to the Russian Civil War in Siberia

The brilliant exploit of the Noshido(?) Infantry Company destroyed rail road, going..., c1919. Creator: Unknown
The brilliant exploit of the Noshido(?) Infantry Company destroyed rail road, going around the back of the ememy, c1919.

The march of the Japanese army at Vladivostok city, c1919. Creator: Unknown
The march of the Japanese army at Vladivostok city, c1919.

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"The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics: A Revolutionary Journey" Step back in time to October 1918, where Vladimir Ilich Lenin, the Russian Bolshevik leader, stood tall in the Kremlin of Moscow. His vision for a new society was taking shape, and it would soon become known as the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. In this black and white photo by Vera Mukhina, we see her iconic sculpture "Worker and Kolkhoz Woman. " This powerful symbol represents the unity between workers and peasants that formed the backbone of the USSR. Lenin's influence continued to grow throughout the years. In Aleksandr Gerasimov's portrait from 1930, we witness his unwavering determination. By 1939, he had become an indelible figure in history. The spirit of revolution permeated every aspect of life in the USSR. In a captivating oil painting from 1917, we witness a mass demonstration engulfing Moscow. The people were united in their pursuit of change. Artists like Kazimir Malevich captured this revolutionary fervor through their work. "Woman with a Rake" embodies both strength and resilience – qualities that defined Soviet society during its early years. Music also played a significant role in shaping Soviet culture. Composers Sergei Prokofiev, Dmitri Shostakovich, and Aram Khachaturian created symphonies that echoed across borders while proudly representing their homeland. But it wasn't just art and music; everyday citizens contributed to building this new nation too. In an awe-inspiring photograph from 1932, workers stand together at Magnitogorsk – a testament to their collective efforts towards industrialization. Sports became another way for Soviets to showcase their strength on an international stage. The Moscow Spartakiada collage from 1928 captures moments filled with passion and camaraderie among athletes who embodied socialist ideals. However, challenges lay ahead. The Berlin blockade of 1948 tested the resolve of the USSR.