People's Republic of China (1950-1967)

The interior of one of the Chinese temples, a statue of a deity.

View of a stone hemisphere in a temple complex.

Views of statues of kneeling monks.

View of one of the towers of the Great Wall of China.

Carved stone decorations in the form of dragons (panorama), a statue of a dragon in one of the city parks.

Painted statues of various gods inside one of the temples.

Views of temples, examples of Chinese architecture.

A peasant from one of the agricultural communes walks along a stone wall, a pig stands in a puddle in rows.

A millstone driven by a bull walking in a circle.

Women with children in their arms.

A peasant in torn clothes.

Girls with a small child in their arms walk along a village street.

People on a village street, a cart pulled by a donkey passes.

People are sitting by trays of fruit near the wall of a house.

A beggar with a child is walking along the street.

A man carries vegetables on a yoke.

Street vendors are sitting along an adobe wall, a young man is passing.

Peasants in a village square.

Vegetable and green vendors sit along the road.

A peasant gives a customer the greens he bought.

Teenagers sitting on the ground eat soup from bowls.

Views of the Great Wall of China (top).

Party meeting in one of the agricultural communes (panorama).

Village activists at a wooden fanza with a red flag above the entrance.

Peasants beat gongs, calling their neighbors.

Young people beat drums and copper cymbals.

Demonstration in support of Mao Zedong's ideas in the USA, portraits of Mao Zedong in the hands of demonstrators.

Mao Zedong's face, panorama of the rally in Beijing (top).

Mao Zedong greets rally participants.

Mao Zedong's face.

Removal of opposition characters from the facade of a building.

Burning of characters, youth applauding while standing by the fire.

Mao Zedong applauding.

A wooden character burning out.

Panorama of the rally, faces of the speakers.

Distribution of agricultural equipment to peasants by activists of the Communist Party of China.

Peasants take home the equipment they have received.

Plowing a plot of land with a primitive wooden plough.

One of the peasants speaks at a rally before the start of field work.

Faces of peasants.

Plowing the land with a wooden plough pulled by a horse.

Panorama of a mass subbotnik to carry out spring field work.

Peasants and townspeople loosen the soil with hoes and shovels.

People break the turf with hoes.

The face of a rural artisan.

Panorama of mass field work.

Distribution of seed grain to peasants, members of the distribution commission at the table.

A teacher conducts a lesson with students.

Young people with quotations in their hands greet Mao Zedong.

Mao Zedong during a rally.

A sparrow on a branch.

A soldier shoots a sparrow with a rifle.

A girl activist speaks to peasants.

A peasant woman demonstrates the art of spinning to city girls.

Children play on the asphalt with pieces of wooden boards, which they use as toys.

Children's faces.

The building of one of the new higher education institutions in China.

Students are recording a lecture, a panoramic view of a part of the auditorium.

A party meeting at one of the enterprises.

Schoolchildren at their desks memorize Mao Zedong's quotes.

Two soldiers are sitting on a bench by the wall and studying Mao Zedong's quotations.

People on the streets and in the courtyards memorize Mao Zedong's quotes out loud.

A view of Tiananmen Square in Beijing, people are standing on the square in neat rows.

A teacher writes hieroglyphs with chalk on a blackboard.

Parents with small children during a literacy lesson.

A teacher at the blackboard explains the meanings of hieroglyphs.

A teacher helps a man write words correctly in a notebook.

A panoramic view of the auditorium during a literacy lesson.

Mothers with small children at their desks.

A teacher writes hieroglyphs on the board.

Women write hieroglyphs while looking at the board.

Peasant women with small children gather in the street to talk to a representative of the communist youth organization.

A young activist talks to peasant women.

A speaker delivers a speech at a party meeting in the yard of an enterprise.

Peasants memorize Mao Zedong quotes out loud in a field.

People donate things during one of the mass events.

Girls with quotation books in their hands.

A panorama of part of the rally, people raise their hands with quotation books clutched in them.

Faces of girls.

A view of a mass rally.

A view of part of Tiananmen Square during a mass event (from above).