Construction of socialism in the USSR (1989)

Newsreel from 1918: V. I. Lenin taking a walk in the Kremlin courtyard on October 16, 1918, after recovering from his injury, headlines from Lenin's last works.

Lenin speaking at a meeting of the 2nd Congress of the Comintern on July 19, 1920, in the Tauride Palace in Petrograd.

View of one of the streets of Moscow in the 1920s-1930s (top).

Cooperative stores in Moscow, a tram passes by.

People walking in the park.

Sokolnikov G. Ya. during a meeting at the People's Commissariat of Finance.

A lesson at a literacy course.

Faces of residents of one of the Central Asian republics.

Counting money in a bank.

Unloading sacks of coins.

Signboard of the Mosselprom trust.

A cabby drives down the street.

Signboard of a cooperative bank on one of the buildings in Moscow.

Bukharin N. I. Petrovsky G.I., Zinoviev G.E. in the presidium of the meeting of the 4th Congress of the Comintern in the Column Hall of the House of Unions in 1922. Molotov V.M., Stalin I.V., Kalinin M.I., Voroshilov K.E., Kaganovich L.M. during the work of the 16th Congress of the All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks) in Moscow, a photograph of Trotsky at a rally.

Kamenev L.B. speaking at a rally.

View of the construction of the Dnieper Hydroelectric Station in 1928-1929. New cars rolling off the assembly line in 1932-1933. Laying the first furrow with a tractor.

Production processes in the workshops of industrial enterprises of the USSR, faces of workers.

Angelina P.N. behind the wheel of a tractor.

Construction of a railway track, laying the next section.

The face of Vyshinsky A.Ya., speaking at one of the trials of the early 1930s.

The accused in the dock.

View of a part of the courtroom (top).

Prisoners working in logging and earthworks, loading earth into mine carts.

Removing soil in hand carts and mine carts.

Fragment of a poster calling for joining collective farms.

Peasants signing up for a collective farm in 1929-1930. Handing over cattle to the collective farm herd.

A poster calling for the fight against the kulak.

Loading grain into the hold of a ship.

A convoy of "dekulakized" settlers moves along a village street.

Faces of speakers Krylenko N.V., Rykov A.I., photograph of Tomsky M.P. Stalin during a rally.

Andreyev A.A., Voroshilov, Stalin Molotov in the Kremlin during another meeting in 1936-1937. A worker's faculty student at his desk, the worker's feet shod in bast shoes.

A grammar lesson in a village school.

The face of a girl at his desk.

Classes at the literacy courses.

Peasants in the reading hut.

A banner with the name of the Bukharin Workers' Faculty at the 2nd Moscow State University above the entrance.

Scientists conducting experiments.

Posters of the Meyerhold Theatre.

The face of the repressed academician S.I. Vavilov.

Portraits of repressed figures of science and art, Mandelstam and Meyerhold.

A speaker speaks at a rally.

The SS parade in Berlin in 1935-1936. A. Hitler greets the passing troops. V.M. Molotov meets the German Foreign Minister Ribbentrop in the Kremlin in 1939. Stalin during the signing of the Non-Aggression Pact between the USSR and Germany.

Molotov signs a copy of the Treaty, A.I. Mikoyan and Vyshinsky stand nearby.

Ribbentrop signs a copy of the Treaty.

A BT series tank drives along Red Square during the May Day parade.

An airplane flies by.

Tukhachevsky M.N. speaks from the rostrum in the Kremlin during a session of the 17th Congress of the All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks) in February 1934, behind him in the presidium are Ordzhonikidze G.K., Petrovsky G.I. Stalin delivers a speech into a microphone.

Molotov, Stalin, Voroshilov during a meeting in the Kremlin in 1936. An orator speaks at a rally.

A panorama of a part of the rally, slogans demanding the destruction of the "enemies of the people".

Khrushchev N.S. speaks from the rostrum at a session of the 20th Congress of the CPSU in 1956. Congress delegates in the meeting hall.

View of the presidium of the congress, Khrushchev on the rostrum.

Texts of articles on the rehabilitation of the illegally repressed, published in newspapers and party publications.

View of an industrial enterprise.

Newsreel footage from the 1930s: workers' faces, production processes in industrial workshops.

A cross falling from a church dome.

The explosion of the Cathedral of Christ the Savior in 1931. A column of girls at a physical education parade on Red Square.

Participants in a rally with a red banner.

A view of Gorky Street in Moscow, leaflets flying down.