A rally in Moscow in defense of peace (1957.08)

A nighttime fireworks display over Moscow in August 1957, during the 6th World Festival of Youth and Students.

A fountain in Sverdlov Square in Moscow, along with a view of the square and the Bolshoi Theater building.

International guests participating in the festival queue for a hairdresser.

Participants in a nighttime peace rally with anti-war banners and torches (panorama).

A speaker speaks from the podium.

The faces of international guests participating in the rally, a view of the rally.

A procession of rally participants with lit torches.

Flames burst from the windows of a burning house after a Nazi air raid in 1941. A woman stands in the ashes of a burned-out house.

A mother and daughter weep over the body of their father, killed by the German occupiers.

A panorama of part of the burning Stalingrad in the summer of 1942. The faces of refugee children.

A building collapses.

Destroyed buildings in London's suburbs.

A woman and her child flee a devastated village during the Korean War in 1950-1952. People stand beside the bodies of their fallen relatives.

Flames leap from the window of a burning building.

A view of a nighttime peace rally in Moscow in August 1957. The face of an elderly woman participating in the rally.

The faces of foreign guests, young men and women (close-up).

Views of the rally illuminated by spotlights.

A nighttime fireworks display over the Moscow Kremlin.

Participants of the 6th World Festival of Youth and Students watch the fireworks in central Moscow.

A Chinese girl holds a burning sparkler.