Economy of the USA and the USSR (1920-1933)

A street sign saying "Wall Street".

A view of a section of Wall Street.

Entrance to the New York Stock Exchange building.

An interior view of the stock exchange floor during trading.

Brokers offer shares for sale.

Stock clerks and brokers at work, trading on the stock exchange.

Views of railway junctions and oil refineries in the United States in the 1920s and 1930s (top).

Car traffic on the street of one of the US cities, pedestrians walk, people ride bicycles.

Street views of American cities (top), streams of people walk along the streets.

Workers go to the plant.

A view of a section of the machine room of a power plant (top).

The operator at the control panel.

The hand turns on the switch.

Streams of water pass through the dam of the hydroelectric power station.

Panorama of the construction of the dam of the power plant (top).

Mechanized concrete work during the construction of the dam.

Delivery of concrete mortar using a crane.

Panorama of the construction of the Volkhov Hydroelectric Power Station in 1924-1925. Manual work at the construction of a hydroelectric power station, transporting mortar in wheelbarrows.

Emptying wheelbarrows with mortar.

Concreters compacting a layer of mortar with their feet, the feet of workers tamping down concrete.

View of one of the skyscrapers under construction in the USA. An excavator in a quarry.

Manual excavation work at a quarry in Soviet Russia.

Breaking stones with sledgehammers.

Loading scrap metal onto a railway platform in the USA using an electromagnetic crane.

Transporting scrap metal using an electromagnetic crane and an overhead road.

Manually carrying construction materials at one of the construction sites of the first five-year plans in the USSR. Manually laying a pipeline.

The production process in one of the workshops of the Ford plants, the operation of stamping equipment.

Conveyor system in the workshops of the Ford plants.

Conveyor assembly of automobile engines.

Laying automobile tires on a conveyor belt.

Ford chassis drive out of the gates of the workshop.

Automobile traffic in a square of one of the cities in the USA (above).

Front view of the first Soviet automobile "Prombron".

Manual assembly of the "Prombron" automobile in 1922. Gearbox assembly.

Manual assembly of the chassis differential.

Manually assembled front axle.