Soviet-American relations (1920-1933)

American police shooting at bottles of liquor, smashing bottles against a stone wall during Prohibition in the United States.

View of an abandoned Russian hut.

A convoy of starving peasants leaving a village in 1921. Faces of starving children.

Children from starving provinces at a railway station.

Corpses of people who died of hunger.

A child with a piece of bread in her hands.

A mother with a child in her arms.

Shipment of food aid to the USA for the starving in Soviet Russia.

People in Russia receiving American grain, unloading grain from sacks.

Doctors vaccinating the starving, children who have lost their parents are taken out of the carriage to be sent to orphanages.

Children, medical workers and educators near a passenger carriage at one of the railway stations.

Children in the carriage receiving bread.

Photos of the starving in Russia receiving American food aid, published in an American magazine.

Faces of American engineering specialists who worked in the USSR in 1932. General view of the Dnieper Hydroelectric Station dam and the rally dedicated to the launch of the power plant on October 10, 1932. Kalinin M.I. and Ordzhonikidze G.K., who arrived for the rally, workers applaud them.

View of part of the rally, Kalinin speaking from the rostrum (synchronously), reporters taking down his speech in shorthand, rally participants listening to Kalinin's speech.

Kalinin lists the names of foreign specialists awarded USSR awards for their contribution to the construction of the Dnieper Hydroelectric Station (synchronously).

Rally in the USA in 1932 in honor of Roosevelt's victory F. Roosevelt speaking from the rostrum (synchronously, in English, translation into Russian is heard).

Residents of American cities greet Roosevelt driving through the streets in a car, Roosevelt responds to greetings.

Roosevelt's face.

The American flag flutters, general view of the Capitol.

TASS report in the Pravda newspaper about the exchange of messages between Roosevelt and Kalinin in 1933. Demonstrations and rallies on the streets of US cities demanding improved Soviet-American relations, speakers, posters with Stalin's portrait.

A demonstration of workers comes to Red Square on November 7, 1933. General view of Red Square (top), columns of demonstrators march, Stalin I.V. on the tribune of the mausoleum, demonstrators carry slogans and posters, greet the leaders of the USSR. A passenger liner leaves the port of New York.

Arrival of Litvinov M.M. in the USA in November 1933, text of the telegram about Litvinov's arrival.

Americans greet Litvinov at the port and at the railway station.

Litvinov's motorcade with a motorcyclist escort passes by.

Report on the establishment of diplomatic relations between the USSR and the USA in the Izvestia newspaper.

Litvinov and US Secretary of State Hull K. shake hands as they leave the building.

Arrival of US Ambassador W. Bullitt in Moscow, Bullitt answers journalists' questions, approaches his car.

Bullitt gives a speech in Russian on Moscow radio (synchronously).

Bridge over the Moscow River.

US Ambassador's car drives up to the Grand Kremlin Palace, Bullitt's face.

Bullitt enters the Grand Kremlin Palace, undresses in the cloakroom, diplomats' and military hats are on the cloakroom shelf.

Kalinin and Litvinov greet Bullitt, who presents his credentials, Kalinin's face.

Newspaper announcement of Troyanovsky's appointment as Ambassador to the USA. Troyanovsky A.A. delivers a speech at a banquet in Washington (synchronously).

Clouds in the sky.

German eagle with swastika, views of Nazi rallies.

Night parade of stormtroopers with torches, Hitler A. on the platform.

Lenin V.I. in the Kremlin during a conversation with the American journalist Eyre L. in February 1920. Panorama of the American commercial port.

Loading containers with equipment, machine tools and tractors for shipment to the USSR. A train with tractors transported from Crimea to other regions of the USSR passes.

American tractors plowing in the USSR. Street sign "Wall Street".

Panic on the New York Stock Exchange in 1929.