In 1985 Mikhail Gorbachev shocked the people of Russia when he launched his Anti-Alcohol campaign. Not two months after being elected as General Secretary Gorbachev…
The picture above is an example of some of the posters that workers made quickly before their march on the Communist Party Headquarters in 1962. …
After the end of WWII, Russia was faced with another enemy. One that had been fighting them long before Nazi Germany. Feeding their people was…
Soviet Partisans played a major part in the soviet victory against the Germans in the Great Patriotic War. As Germans moved deeper into Russia, it…
Now that Russia had entered a new era of Bolshevism, labor dicipline became a major issue. Russia was in an attempt to show its power…
The poster above was published in order to explain two different decrees passed in1921 that affected workers and their payment. These decrees allowed workers to…
Russia was already in a food shortage leading up to 1917. World war one had left a major portion of the country hungry and poor. …
The years leading up to the 1905 Russian revolution was full of growth and conflict. Russia was experiencing remarkable industrial growth around the turn of…
The caption of this photo says it depicts monks planting potatoes in fields reclaimed from conifer forest. This got me thinking about all the different…
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