In this report you will find pictures taken by international photographers who visited Moscow from 1920 till 1929.
The photograph above pictures a demonstration held in Moscow in 1920.
Moscow University, 1923.
Dancing workers who were to popularize communism and revolution, 1923.
Clara Zetkin making her speech on Red Square, 1924.
A military parade on Red Square, 1924.
Another meeting of the Communist Party in the Kremlin, 1924.
Lenin’s successor Alexey Rykov in the Kremlin’s library, 1924.
Russian ballet. Golesovsky and his students.1924.
French Ambassador Jean Herbett arrives at Moscow, 1925.
Sports festival in Moscow, 1925.
Mikhail Frunze’s funeral, 1925.
Ballerina Lyudmila Sperantseva, 1926.
Russian diplomat Petr Voykov’s funeral, 1927 (Voykov was killed by a student in Poland).
A group of international defense attaches during celebration of the 10th anniversary of the October Revolution, 1927.
“Lenin”.
A communist demonstration, 1927.
Celebrating International Workers’ Day, May 1st, 1927 .
Construction of the central post office in Moscow, 1927.
“Labor unions are the school of Communism”.
Celebrating the 10th anniversary of the October Revolution, 1927.
Celebrating the 10th anniversary of the October Revolution, 1927.
Celebrating the 10th anniversary of the October Revolution, 1927.
Selling china and other belongings of the former tsar, 1927.
Delegates from Mongolia and Kazakhstan at a communist women’s meeting, 1928.
Tatarstan’s delegate.
This lady was the one presiding at the meeting.
Delegates from Turkmenistan, Germany and the Leningrad Region.
M. Gorky (the one with a mustache and a hat) attending a book fair in Moscow, 1929.
Russian actresses acting as salesladies at the book fair in Moscow in 1929.
Location: Moscow
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“Dancing workers” – priceless!
Wonder how many of those people survived the purges and WWII.
The nearest moment of a truly rational, scientific, egalitarian, just society humanity will ever know. The fact is, it was ruined from above (the government after 1929) and not by the people. Look closely at a glimpse of near-Utopia; it’s doubtful it will be repeated.
Now that I have seen the photo of the dancing workers, I suddenly feel the urge to become a Communist and get a job in a steel factory!
I think the dancing worked!
Many of those photos appear to have been altered, as was so common. Veroshilov appears in a few, and is that Zinoviev at Frunze’s funeral?
You’re right. The criminal Stalinist Voroshilov is in several pics. And that is Comrade Zinoviev as well as Comrade Rykov at the funeral. You know your Russian history. As for altered photos, since the dawn of photography to the present day Governments, businesses, and entertainment have conspired to mold reality to their point of views. Nothing new there.
nice pictures, to bad it was never ment to be a beautiful place were people would live a an easy and happy life .
Maybe the nazi, maybe the british and americans or maybe the top of the cccp governement ruined it
Shurely it was ruined by Stalin in the first place.
with his mass genocides by the red army and the holodomor in eastern europe. and last but not least. Stalins support for shitler 1930-1940
“A group of international defense attaches during celebration of the 10th anniversary of the October Revolution, 1927.” Happy faces
Like: WTF am I doing here? I could have been sitting in my cozy warm office in Warsaw or Tokio.
the woman in the 4th picture from the bottom scares the c**p out of me, and I use the term woman losely here