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Kiev (vicinity), Ukraine, USSR (Union of Soviet Socialist Republics). ...

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Nursery school children playing with a tub of water in the USSR (Union...

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Tashkent (vicinity), Uzbekistan, USSR (Union of Soviet Socialist Repub...

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Krasnodar (vicinity), USSR (Union of Soviet Socialist Republics). Woma...

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Unveil tablet to memory of founder of Mt. Vernon Seminary. Washington,...

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A group of men standing next to each other. Office of War Information ...

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An American locomotive with an American soldier crew hauling freight t...

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Chicago, Illinois. Mr. Charles Sawer, gateman at Union Station for two...

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Pitcairn, Pennsylvania. Mrs. Anna Matecko, a Lithuanian, mother of fou...

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Mountainous route of trains carrying supplies to Russia. An American e...

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Cincinnati, Ohio. Preparing canned pork (Russian: "svinaia tushonka") ...

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Somewhere in the Persian corridor. A United States Army truck convoy c...

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Colonel Paul Yount, commanding officer of the American Army Railway Se...

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Cincinnati, Ohio. Preparing canned pork (Russian: "svinaia tushonka") ...

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Correspondent overseas. George Tucker, Associated Press war correspond...

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American troops who work on the railway taking supplies to Russia wash...

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Somewhere in the Persian corridor. A United States Army truck convoy c...

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Somewhere in the Persian corridor. A United States Army truck convoy c...

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Somewhere in the Persian corridor. A United States Army truck convoy c...

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American, Russian and Royal air force pilots at a delivery point of Al...

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A black and white photo of a man sitting on a jeep. Office of War Info...

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Jn der Wohnung J. Kietz, Metgethen, Hindenburgweg 47 ... Jm Schlafzimm...

Photographs show corpses in bedrooms of civilians executed during the assault on Metgethen, Germany, by Soviet troops in 1945. In album: Bildbericht über von den Bolschewisten ermordete und geschändete Deutsch... More

Die Leiche einer ca. 20 jähr ... Brustaufnahme von derselben Leiche mi...

Photographs show two views of the corpse of a woman executed during the assault on, Metgethen, Germany, by Soviet troops in 1945. In album: Bildbericht über von den Bolschewisten ermordete und geschändete Deut... More

Metgethen, Adolf-Hitler-Str. 23. Das Haus ist in unbeschrebliche Weise...

Photographs show corpses in a room of civilians executed during the assault on Metgethen, Germany, by Soviet troops in 1945. In album: Bildbericht über von den Bolschewisten ermordete und geschändete Deutsche ... More

Bernstein with Felicia and writer Boris Pasternak, author of Doctor Zh...

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U.S.S.R., Moscow, temporary Russian exhibition

Photograph shows Russians looking at dollhouse at that USSR exhibition in Sokolniki Park, Moscow, next to the American National Exhibition. (Source: Arianne Kouri, 2013) Title from contact sheet folder. Contact... More

[Fidel Castro and Nikita Khrushchev make their way in the midst of a c...

NYWT&S staff photograph. Forms part of: New York World-Telegram and the Sun Newspaper Photograph Collection (Library of Congress).

[Crowd of people holding candles, including African Americans, at a ma...

Title devised by Library staff from contact sheet folder caption. Date from contact sheet folder caption. Contact sheet available for reference purposes: USN&WR COLL - Job no. 21653, frame 10A. Photograph taken... More

Chinese dragon breathing fire on Soviet bear

Cartoon shows a huge dragon (labeled "China") with Mao Zedong's head breathing flames on a bear labeled with a hammer and sickle. Relations between the Soviet Union and China, the two great Communist superpowe... More

Atlas of Soviet administrative maps.

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Atlas of Soviet administrative maps.

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Russia : a country study /. Library of Congress Federal research divis...

"Research completed July 1996." Includes bibliographical references (p. 621-665) and index. Also available in digital form.

Russia : a country study /. Library of Congress Federal research divis...

"Research completed July 1996." Includes bibliographical references (p. 621-665) and index. Also available in digital form.

Alexanra [i.e. Alexandra] Kollontay

Photograph shows Alexandra Mikhailovna Kollontai (1872-1952), a Russian Communist revolutionary. (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2015)

Shepherd on a Jewish collective farm in th Crimea, USSR (Union of Sovi...

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Nursery school children having music and rhythms in the USSR (Union of...

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Woman worker in a textile plant in the USSR (Union of Soviet Socialist...

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Appears before Dies Un-American Committee. Washington, D.C., Nov. 7. D...

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Finnish Lagation deluged with donations to aid fight with Soviet. Wash...

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Moscow, USSR (Union of Socialist Soviet Republics). A worker in one of...

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Hartford, Connecticut (vicinity). Boris Sergey Komoroski. He was a Rus...

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Valentina Orlikova, a Soviet merchant marine officer

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Women guerrilla fighters in the USSR (Union of Soviet Socialist Republ...

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Washington, D.C. Lord Halifax, British ambassador, chatting with Maxim...

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Washington, D.C. International youth assembly. Liudmila Pavlichenko, f...

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Gas decontamination squad practicing in the USSR (Union of Soviet Soci...

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Factory workers drilling with guns in their free time in the USSR (Uni...

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Sevastopol, USSR (Union of Soviet Socialist Republics). Underground ar...

Image source: National Council of American-Soviet Friendship, New York. Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington D... More

Colonel Don Shingler, Commander of the United States Army Motor Transp...

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An American engine pulling a great load of supplies for Russia along a...

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A black and white photo of a truck on a dirt road. Office of War Infor...

Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944. More information about the FSA/OWI Collection is availabl... More

An assembly plant for American fighter warplanes destined for Russia, ...

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Cincinnati, Ohio. Preparing canned pork (Russian: "svinaia tushonka") ...

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Somewhere in the Persian corridor. A United States Army truck convoy c...

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American, Russian and English engineers in the cab of an engine. Each ...

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Cincinnati, Ohio. Preparing canned pork (Russian: "svinaia tushonka") ...

Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944. More information about the FSA/OWI Collection is availabl... More

Cincinnati, Ohio. Preparing canned pork (Russian: "svinaia tushonka") ...

Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944. More information about the FSA/OWI Collection is availabl... More

A black and white photo of two men working on an airplane. Office of W...

Actual size of negative is D (approximately 3 1/4 x 4 1/4 inches). Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Divisi... More

Madame Bonnet, wife of French Ambassador and Andrei Gromyko, Ambassado...

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Mrs. A. Slionsaremko, wife of First Secretary of Russian Embassy, and ...

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U.S.S.R., Moscow, temporary Russian exhibition

Photograph shows a woman looking at glassware in a display case at the USSR Exhibition in Sokolniki Park, Moscow, next to the American National Exhibition. (Source: Arianne Kouri, 2013) Title from contact sheet... More

[Man with cameras at Red Square, Moscow, Russia, Soviet Union / TOH.

Title from contact sheet folder caption. U.S. News & World Report Magazine Photograph Collection. Contact sheet available for reference purposes.

U.S.S.R., Moscow, temporary Russian exhibition

Photograph shows two men looking at a tractor display at the USSR Exhibition in Sokolniki Park, Moscow, next to the American National Exhibition. (Source: Arianne Kouri, 2013) Title from contact sheet folder. C... More

Soviet Central Asia. 5-60. - Public domain map

[Soviet foreign minister Andrei Gromyko and Soviet Ambassador to the ...

Contact sheet folder caption: "Andrei Gromyko, Soviet foreign minister, confers w/Pres. Kennedy at Hiwte [i.e., White] House, WKL, 10/18/62". U.S. News & World Report Magazine Photograph Collection. Contact sh... More

"He's driving me nuts - I'm on the verge of blowing my top" Ed. Valtma...

Editorial cartoon drawing shows two hairy, muscular, anthropomorphic atomic bombs labeled "U.S. A-Tests" and "Soviet Intransigence" sitting at a table on which is a ringing alarm clock and a paper waiting to be... More

China-U.S.S.R. border, western sector.

Scale 1:7,200,000. "76657 7-69." Relief shown by shading and spot heights. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Includes inset of "Border history and claims." AACR2

Portrait of Leonid Brezhnev - Public domain portrait painting

General information about the Popular and Applied Graphic Art print materials is available at: loc.gov Title devised by Library staff or Junior Fellows, 2005-2017. Copyright information is written in Russian. C... More

U.S.S.R., economic regions, 1971. 7-71.

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Church of Saint John Chrysostome in Korovniki (1649-54), east facade, ...

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Transfiguration Monastery cloisters (late 17th century), Yaroslavl, Ru...

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Church of the Archangel Michael (1658-82), west facade, Yaroslavl, Rus...

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Cathedral of St. Sophia and Dormition (1681-86), interior, view east t...

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Vpered! Na Zapad!. Public domain reproduction.

Title summary: Forward! to the West! Published: Izd-vo "Plakat" Originally pub.: Gos. izd-vo "Iskusstvo," 1942. No. 17 in set commemorating Soviet victory in World War II. Gift; Gary Yanker; 1975-1983.

Kazhdyi udar molota -- udar po vragu!

Title summary: Every blow with the hammer is a blow against the enemy. Published: Izd-vo "Plakat." Originally pub.: Gos. izd-vo "Iskusstvo," Moskva, 1941. No. 20 in set commemorating Soviet victory in World Wa... More

'Don't look now, but I'm afraid somebody is following us'

Cartoon shows Soviet leaders Leonid Brezhnev and Aleksey Kosygin walking along a street in Moscow wearing rumpled suits and ties and generally showing their age. A dapper young man without a tie, labeled "Next... More

'This hurts me more than it hurts you!'

Cartoon shows Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev as a dentist about to extract Cuban leader Fidel Castro's teeth, drawn as missiles. In 1962, the United States discovered that the Soviet Union was installing missi... More

Rodina-mat' zovet! - Drawing. Public domain image.

Title summary: The motherland calls! Mother Russia holding soldier's oath. Published: Izd-vo "Plakat." Originally pub.: Gos. izd-vo "Iskusstvo," 1941. No. 1 in set commemorating Soviet victory in World War II.... More

Voin, otvet' Rodine pobedoi! - Drawing. Public domain image.

Title summary: Soldier, answer the motherland with victory! Published: Izd-vo "Plakat." Originally pub.: Gos. izd-vo "Iskusstvo," 1942. No. 23 in set commemorating Soviet victory in World War II. Gift; Gary Ya... More

Serii︠a︡ plakatov "Grazhdanskai︠a︡" voĭna v 10 listov : Sovetskiĭ Soi︠...

Series of 10 pictorial wall maps issued as posters to illustrate the military successes of the Red Army in the Russian Civil War of 1917-1922. Some maps cover the entire Soviet Union, some cover only the Europe... More

Atlas of Soviet administrative maps.

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Astronomy 490, Cornell University : ideas and prompts

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[Ludwig Martens (right), representative of the Soviet government, with...

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[A finished log house, Kolhoz (collective farm), near Gorky, Russia]

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Uzbek collective farmers watching the first waters of Syr-Darya river ...

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Moscow, USSR (Union of Soviet Socialist Republics). A grade school

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Nursery school children having music and rhythms in the USSR (Union of...

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Armenia, USSR (Union of Soviet Socialist Republics). Cotton picking

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Tashkent (vicinity), USSR (Union of Soviet Socialist Republics). Girl ...

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Washington, D.C. International youth assembly. Two of the Russian dele...

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Joseph Stalin, Secretary-general of the Communist party of Soviet Russ...

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Official pictures of meeting of Stalin, Churchill, Harriman. These are...

Actual size of negative is B (approximately 5 x 7 inches). Caption card lists some of the printing history for image. Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Inform... More

Somewhere in the Persian corridor. A United States Army truck convoy c...

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Somewhere in the Persian corridor. A United States Army truck convoy c...

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Cincinnati, Ohio. Preparing canned pork (Russian: "svinaia tushonka") ...

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A truck driver checking the oil. He is with a United States Army truck...

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Somewhere in the Persian corridor. A United States Army truck convoy c...

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An American plane mechanic assisted by an Iranian boy working on a lig...

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Somewhere in the Persian corridor. A United States Army truck convoy c...

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Somewhere in the Persian corridor. A United States Army truck convoy c...

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