Communism Collection (page 4)

Leon Trotsky arriving for peace negotiations with the Germans, Brest-Litovsk, 7 January 1918. Trotsky led the Russian delegation at the negotiations

Mikhail Gorbachev, leader of the Soviet Union, 1985. Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev, (born 1931), was leader of the Soviet Union from 1985 until 1991

Portrait of the Politician Nikita Sergeyevich Khrushchev, 1951. Artist: Ivan Semyonovich Sorokin
Portrait of the Politician Nikita Sergeyevich Khrushchev, 1951. Khrushchev (1894-1971) joined the Communist Party in 1918, rising through the party ranks to become a member of the Politburo in 1939

The Capturing of a Tank near Kakhovka, 1927. Artist: Ivan Vladimirov
The Capturing of a Tank near Kakhovka, 1927. During the Russian Civil War, the area around the port city of Kakhovka on the River Dnieper saw very fierce fighting similar to the trench warfare of

Soviet leader Joseph Stalin and author Maxim Gorky, Moscow, USSR, 1931. Gorky (1868-1936) was one of the pioneers of socialist realism in literature

Meat counter in a Soviet food store, USSR, 1960s. From a private collection

Soviet politician Lavrentiy Beria with Josef Stalins daughter Svetlana Alliluyeva, USSR, 1930s. Beria (1899-1953) was First Secretary of the Georgian Communist Party during the 1930s

Police photograph of Leon Trotsky, Russian revolutionary, 1898. Trotsky (1879-1940) became involved in revolutionary activities in 1896

Russian Bolshevik leader Vladimir Lenin at a radio recording in the Kremlin, Moscow, Russia, 1919. Lenin (1870-1924) became leader of the Bolshevik faction of the Russian Social Democratic

Vladimir Ulyanov (Lenin), Russian Bolshevik revolutionary, Moscow, Russia, February 1900. Lenin (1870-1924) became leader of the Bolshevik faction of the Russian Social Democratic

Vladimir Ulyanov (Lenin) as a student, Samara, Russia, 1890. Lenin (1870-1924) became leader of the Bolshevik faction of the Russian Social Democratic and Labour Party in 1903

Vladimir Ulyanov (Lenin) as a grammar school pupil, Simbirsk, Russia, 1879
Vladimir Ulyanov (Lenin) as grammar school pupil, Simbirsk, Russia, 1887. Lenin (1870-1924) became leader of the Bolshevik faction of the Russian Social Democratic and Labour Party in 1903

Vladimir Ilich Lenin, Russian Bolshevik revolutionary leader, aged 4, with his sister Olga, 1874. Lenin (1870-1924) became leader of the Bolshevik faction of the Russian Social Democratic

Russian Bolshevik leader Vladimir Lenin and his wife, Nadezhda Krupskaya, Russia, 1922. Lenin (1870-1924) and Nadezhda Krupskaya (1869-1939)

Russian Bolshevik leader Vladimir Lenin and Nadezhda Krupskaya, Gorki, USSR, 1922. Lenin (1870-1924) and Nadezhda Krupskaya (1869-1939) married in 1898 when they were both living in exile in Siberia

Anastas Mikoyan, Russian communist statesman, c1920s-c1930s. Born in what is now Armenia, Mikoyan (1895-1978) joined the Bolsheviks in 1915 and participated in the 1917 Russian Revolution

Vladimir Ilich Lenin, Russian Bolshevik revolutionary leader, aged 4, 1874. Lenin (1870-1924) became leader of the Bolshevik faction of the Russian Social Democratic and Labour Party in 1903

Stalin and Lenin, Russian Bolshevik revolutionary leaders, Moscow, Russia, 1919. Stalin (1879-1953) and Lenin (1870-1924) at the VIII Congress of the Russian Communist Party

Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev in New York, USA, September 1960. Khrushchev (1894-1971) on the balcony of the Russian United Nations delegation headquarters

American National Exhibition, Moscow, USSR, 1959. Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev (1894-1971) samples a cup of Pepsi-Cola watched by US Vice-President Ricard Nixon (1913-1994)

Communist collectivization of agriculture, USSR, early 1930s. The collectivization of agriculture was a policy of taking the ownership of farms

Soviet leader Josef Stalin with French writer Romain Rolland, Moscow, USSR, 28 June 1935. Rolland (1866-1944) was a dramatist, novelist and essayist who won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1915

Members of the Central Committee carrying Lenins coffin, 27 January, 1924
Members of the Central Committee carrying Lenins coffin, Moscow, USSR, 27 January, 1924. The Bolshevik leader died on 21 January 1924

Josef Stalin and Mikhail Kalinin, Soviet leaders, 1930s. From a private collection. Born Iosif Vissarionovich Dzhugashvili

Soviet leader Josef Stalin with his second wife Nadezhda Alliluyeva, late 1920s. Nadezhda Alliluyeva (1901-1932) married Stalin (1879-1953) in 1919

The first Proletcult theatre, Moscow, USSR, 1920s. Proletcult was a Soviet cultural movement established after the Russian Revolution

The auditorium, the Polytechnical Museum, Moscow, USSR, 1925. Founded in 1872, the Polytechnical Museum is a science museum in Moscow

Smolensk Market, Moscow, USSR, 1920s. Found in the collection of the Russian State Film and Photo Archive, Krasnogorsk

Anatoly Lunacharsky, Soviet politician, c1917-c1929(?). Artist: Nikolay Kupreyanov
Anatoly Lunacharsky, Soviet politician, c1917-c1929(?). Lunacharsky (1875-1933) was appointed Soviet Peoples Commissar of Enlightenment responsible for culture

Illustration from the book Lenins Life, 1936. Artist: Piotr Nicholaevich Staronosov
Illustration from the book Lenins Life, 1936. Found in the colletion of the State Museum of Revolution, Moscow

The victory of socialism in the USSR is guaranteed, poster, 1932. Artist: Gustav Klutsis
The victory of socialism in the USSR is guaranteed, poster, 1932. Found in the collection of the Russian State Library, Moscow

Design for the Palace of the Soviets in Moscow, USSR, c1931-c1933. Artist: Alexander Karra
Design for the Palace of the Soviets in Moscow, USSR, c1931-c1933. The Palace of the Soviets was intended to be an administrative complex and conference hall

February 27th, 1917, 1917. Artist: Boris Mikhajlovich Kustodiev
February 27th, 1917, 1917. Scene depicting the Russian February Revolution, which overthrew the regime of Tsar Nicholas II. Found in the collection of the State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow

October 1917 - October 1920. Long Live the Worldwide Red October!, poster, 1920. Artist: Dmitriy Stakhievich Moor
October 1917 - October 1920. Long Live the Worldwide Red October!, poster, 1920. Found in the collection of the Russian State Library, Moscow

Let Us Fulfill the Plan of the Great Projects, poster, 1930. Artist: Gustav Klutsis
Let Us Fulfill the Plan of the Great Projects, poster, 1930. Found in the collection of the Russian State Library, Moscow

Stand Up for Petrograd!, poster, 1919. Artist: Alexander Apsit
Stand Up for Petrograd!, poster, 1919. Propaganda poster exhorting workers and soldiers to defend the city of Petrograd (St Petersburg)

Red Moscow Heart of World Revolution, poster, 1921. Found in the collection of the Russian State Library, Moscow

Soviet leader Joseph Stalin escorted by GRU secret agents, late 1920s
Soviet leader Joseph Stalin (1879-1953) escorted by GRU secret agents, late 1920s. Founded in1918, the GRU is the Russian military foreign intelligence service

Nadezhda Krupskaya, Lenins wife, with a friend, 1936. Nadezhda Krupskaya (1869-1939) and Lenin married in 1898 when they were both living in exile in Siberia

Soviet leaders Joseph Stalin and Sergei Kirov, Moscow, USSR, 1928. Stalin (1879-1953) and Kirov (1886-1934) at the Leningradsky Rail Terminal

May Day meeting, Russia, 1920. Among those present are Bolshevik leader Grigory Zinoviev (1883-1936), writer Maxim Gorky (1868-1936) and opera singer Feodor Chaliapin (1873-1938)

The Council of the Peoples Commissars, Russia, c1917-c1918. The Council of the Peoples Commissars (Sovnarkom) was the government of Russia established after the Bolsheviks seized power in the October

Senior Soviet figures on the tribune of Lenins mausoleum, Red Square, Moscow, USSR, 1931. Author Maxim Gorky (1868-1936) with politicians Lazar Kaganovich (1893-1991)

The Trial of the Twenty-One, Moscow, USSR, 1938
The Trial of the Twenty-One, Moscow, USSR 1938. The Trial of the Twenty-One was the last of a series of show trials of prominent Bolsheviks during Stalins Great Purge

Leon Trotsky and his family, Alma Ata, USSR, 1928. Trotsky (1879-1940) with his wife, Natalia Sedova (1882-1962), and son, Lev Sedov (1906-1938)

Police file of the political criminal Nadezhda Krupskaya, Lenins wife, before 1916. Nadezhda Krupskaya (1869-1939) and Lenin married in 1898 when they were both living in exile in Siberia

League of Struggle for the Emancipation of the Working Class, c1895
Members of the League of Struggle for the Emancipation of the Working Class, Russia, c1895. The League of Struggle for the Emancipation of the Working Class was a left-wing political group founded in

Soviet politician Sergei Kirov, 17th Congress of the Communist Party, Moscow, USSR, 1934. Kirov (1886-1934) rose through the Bolshevik ranks after the Russian Revolution to become head of

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