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Communism Collection

Background imageCommunism Collection: Bronze statues of Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, Marx-Engels-Forum, Berlin, Germany

Bronze statues of Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, Marx-Engels-Forum, Berlin, Germany

Background imageCommunism Collection: Cluj Napoca, romania map

Cluj Napoca, romania map
Illustration of a Cluj Napoca, romania map

Background imageCommunism Collection: Che Guevara

Che Guevara
Argentine-born Cuban revolutionary Ernesto Che Guevara (1928 - 1967). (Photo by Central Press/Getty Images)

Background imageCommunism Collection: Karl Marx

Karl Marx, the founder of Communism, and author of Das Kapital, and, along with coauthor Fredrich Engels, The Communist Manifesto

Background imageCommunism Collection: Karl Marx

Karl Marx, the founder of Communism, and author of Das Kapital, and, along with coauthor Fredrich Engels, The Communist Manifesto

Background imageCommunism Collection: Portrait of Karl Marx

Portrait of Karl Marx
(Original Caption) Portrait of Karl Marx (1818-1883), the German author of "Das Kapital". Undated photograph

Background imageCommunism Collection: Karl Marx

Karl Marx
German author Karl Marx, taken in Algiers, Algeria. This is the last known photograph of the political philosopher

Background imageCommunism Collection: Lenin and St. Petersburg League

Lenin and St. Petersburg League
The nucleus of the future Russian communist party was the St. Petersburg League of Struggle for the Emancipation of the Working Class. From left to right: standing -- A.L. Malchenko, P.K

Background imageCommunism Collection: Lionel Stander On Trial;Communist Invest

Lionel Stander On Trial;Communist Invest
(Original Caption) New York, NY: Veteran stage and screen star Lionel Stander (center-facing camera) testifies before the House Un-American Activities Committee, May 6

Background imageCommunism Collection: Nikolay Vavilov, A.F. Joffe, and Nikolay Bukharin

Nikolay Vavilov, A.F. Joffe, and Nikolay Bukharin
(Original Caption) 1931-London, England: Left to right: Professor Nikolai Vavilov (Botanist)), A. F

Background imageCommunism Collection: Posters Hanging in House of Trade Unions

Posters Hanging in House of Trade Unions
Communists gather for an important meeting in the House of Trade Unions in Moscow, with multilingual proclamations and banners of "fathers" of the Marxist state, during the Stalin era

Background imageCommunism Collection: Premier of North Korea Kim IL Sung

Premier of North Korea Kim IL Sung
(Original Caption) Premiere Kim IL Sung of North Korea is pictured during a reception given for Russian women

Background imageCommunism Collection: Portrait of Alexander Dubcek

Portrait of Alexander Dubcek
(Original Caption) Portrait of Alexander Dubcek, First Secretary of the Czechoslovakian Communist Party. Photo filed in 1968

Background imageCommunism Collection: Portrait Drawing of Vladimir Lenin

Portrait Drawing of Vladimir Lenin
1870-1924-VLADIMIR ILICH "NIKOLAI" LENIN, RUSSIAN COMMUNIST LEADER. COLOR DUPE

Background imageCommunism Collection: Long Live the Vanguard of the Revolution, the Red Navy Russian Revolutionary Era Poster

Long Live the Vanguard of the Revolution, the Red Navy Russian Revolutionary Era Poster
RUSSIAN PROPAGANDA POSTER FROM REVOLUTIONARY ERA

Background imageCommunism Collection: Communism: A Foreign and Poisonous Weed Cartoon by Thomas Nast

Communism: A Foreign and Poisonous Weed Cartoon by Thomas Nast
This political cartoon was published in Harper's Weekly on March 7th, 1874

Background imageCommunism Collection: Chinese Communist Leaders

Chinese Communist Leaders
(Original Caption) Photographs of Mao Zedong. From right, Mao Zedong, Zhu De, Zhou Enlai and Qin Bangxian in northern Shaanxi after the 25, 000-li Long March of the Chinese Red Army

Background imageCommunism Collection: Mao Zedong

Mao Zedong as a fairly young man in the Communist "Base Area" in Yanan, in the northern part of Shaanxi Province. China, 1937

Background imageCommunism Collection: John Silas Reed

John Silas Reed
John Reed, author of Ten Days That Shook the World, his eyewitness account of the Bolshevik Revolution in Russia

Background imageCommunism Collection: Bolshevik Honor Guard

Bolshevik Honor Guard
A Bolshevik honor guard waits to greet Breshka Brashkoski

Background imageCommunism Collection: Communist Mass Meeting in Moscow

Communist Mass Meeting in Moscow
(Original Caption) -Moscow, Russia: Communist mass meeting in Moscow. Photograph

Background imageCommunism Collection: Second Coalition Provisional Russian Revolutionary Government

Second Coalition Provisional Russian Revolutionary Government
The second coalition provisional Russian Revolutionary government (from left to right): sitting -- I.N. Efremov, A.V. Peshekhonov, V.M. Chernov, N.V. Nkrasov, A.F. Kerensky, N.D. Avksetyev, A.M

Background imageCommunism Collection: Russian Revolution Propaganda Poster

Russian Revolution Propaganda Poster
(Original Caption) Propaganda poster used during the Russian Revolution, 1917-1918

Background imageCommunism Collection: Entrance To The Smolney Institute

Entrance To The Smolney Institute
(Original Caption) 1/1918-Petrograd, Russia: Entrance to the Smolney Institute headquarters of the Bolshevist government

Background imageCommunism Collection: Portrait of Vladimir Ilich Lenin

Portrait of Vladimir Ilich Lenin
(Original Caption) Portrait of Soviet leader Vladimir Ilich Lenin (1870-1924), headshot. Undated photo, filed 1931

Background imageCommunism Collection: Meeting of Russian Education Department

Meeting of Russian Education Department
(Photo by Bettmann Archive/Getty Images)

Background imageCommunism Collection: Red Guards with Banners

Red Guards with Banners
An armed group of Red Guards mass in the street near the Bolshevik headquarters in Petrograd during the Russian Civil War

Background imageCommunism Collection: Industrial Workers of the World Headquarters in Greenwich Village

Industrial Workers of the World Headquarters in Greenwich Village
(Original Caption) 2/11/1919-New York, NY- The New York headquarters of the I.W.W. at 27 East 4th Street, where, according to a statement made by James P

Background imageCommunism Collection: Bolshevik Officers in Car

Bolshevik Officers in Car
(Original Caption) 3/21/1919-Sibera, Russia: Bolshevik officers in Army auto spreading red propaganda throughout country

Background imageCommunism Collection: Police Load Van with Communist Literature

Police Load Van with Communist Literature
(Original Caption) 11/11/1919-Boston, MA-: Photo shows officers and clerks loading a police ambulance with Red literature seized at Communist headquarters in Cambridge

Background imageCommunism Collection: Agents Searching Office for Communist Connections

Agents Searching Office for Communist Connections
(Original Caption) 1/5/1920-New York, NY- Federal agents raided the offices and workroom of the Laisve, a Lithuanian daily newspaper, said to be radical in its policies and publishing

Background imageCommunism Collection: Hyme Kaplan Behind Bars

Hyme Kaplan Behind Bars
(Original Caption) 1/6/1920-Deer Island, Boston, MA- Photo shows Hyme Kaplan, one of the Reds taken by federal agents, behind the bars of his cell on Deer Island, Boston

Background imageCommunism Collection: Otto Christensen in Court

Otto Christensen in Court
Otto Christensen (left), lawyer for "Big Bill" Haywood (right), leader of the IWW in the US, appears in court to post bond for his client

Background imageCommunism Collection: Soviet Students Exercising Together

Soviet Students Exercising Together
(Original Caption) 6/17/1920-IN SOVIET RUSSIA: At Calisthenics are children of one of the nationalized schools maintained by the Soviet regime

Background imageCommunism Collection: Reenactment of the Attack on the Winter Palace

Reenactment of the Attack on the Winter Palace
A large group of Soviet soldiers reenacts the storming of the Winter Palace in Petrograd three years to the day after it happened

Background imageCommunism Collection: Reenactment of the Attack on the Winter Palace

Reenactment of the Attack on the Winter Palace
A large group of Soviet soldiers reenacts the storming of the Winter Palace in Petrograd three years to the day after it happened

Background imageCommunism Collection: Russian Aristocrats Working in Bolshevik Russia

Russian Aristocrats Working in Bolshevik Russia
(Original Caption) Ex-aristocrats shown working under guard in the streets

Background imageCommunism Collection: American Delegates On Palace Balcony

American Delegates On Palace Balcony
(Original Caption) 12/5/1921- The Kremlin, Moscow, Russia: American Communist Delagates (no names) in the Kremlin on the balcony of the former Czar's palace

Background imageCommunism Collection: Soviet Premier Joseph Stalin

Soviet Premier Joseph Stalin
(Original Caption) Close-up portrait of Joseph Stalin in profile. Undated photograph

Background imageCommunism Collection: Felix Dzerzhinsky

Felix Dzerzhinsky
(Original Caption) 2/16/1922-RUSSIA'S WHOLESALE KILLER LOSES JOB

Background imageCommunism Collection: Felix Dzherzhinsky

Felix Dzherzhinsky
(Original Caption) 2/27/1924-LEADERS IN THE NEW RUSSIAN CONGRESS

Background imageCommunism Collection: Russians Celebrating Revolution

Russians Celebrating Revolution
(Original Caption) Revolution Celebration in Moscow

Background imageCommunism Collection: Portrait of Leon Trotsky

Portrait of Leon Trotsky
(Original Caption) Leon Trotsky (1877-1940), Russian Communist leader and author

Background imageCommunism Collection: Portrait of Leon Trotsky

Portrait of Leon Trotsky
(Original Caption) Leon Trotsky...homeless

Background imageCommunism Collection: Nikolay Bukharin

Nikolay Bukharin, President of the Communist International, in 1929. He would be the last of the major victims of Stalin's purges

Background imageCommunism Collection: Women Carrying Signs in Communist Rally

Women Carrying Signs in Communist Rally
Marchers carrying signs during a Communist rally in New York City

Background imageCommunism Collection: Lev Kamenev and Olga Bronstein

Lev Kamenev and Olga Bronstein
Lev Kamenev (1883-1936), a prominent Communist party member and Bolshevik, who was executed during Stalin's Great Purge, posing with his wife, the sister of Leon Trotsky

Background imageCommunism Collection: Leon Trotsky at His Desk

Leon Trotsky at His Desk
(Original Caption) Leon Trotsky Original. Lev Davidsovich Bronstein (1879-1940), Russian Communist leader

Background imageCommunism Collection: Joseph Stalin

Joseph Stalin
(Original Caption) Close-up head shot of Joseph Stalin, (1879-1953). He ruled the U.S.S.R. as General Secretary of the Communist Party, and then Premier, from 1922-1953. Undated photograph

Background imageCommunism Collection: Communist Leader Zhou Enlai

Communist Leader Zhou Enlai
Portrait of Chou En-lai, Chinese communist leader, as a young man. Undated photograph

Background imageCommunism Collection: Crowd Loading Religious Objects on Truck

Crowd Loading Religious Objects on Truck
(Original Caption) February 24, 1930 - Moscow, Russia: These working men and women of the Soviets

Background imageCommunism Collection: Children Looking at Communist Graffiti

Children Looking at Communist Graffiti
(Original Caption) 10/19/1930-New York, NY: Although it was probably meant for their elders

Background imageCommunism Collection: Eight Engineers During Trial in Moscow

Eight Engineers During Trial in Moscow
(Original Caption) The death sentences imposed upon five of the eight Russian Engineers, accused of plotting against the Soviet Republic, were commuted to ten year terms

Background imageCommunism Collection: Eight Engineers During Trial in Moscow

Eight Engineers During Trial in Moscow
(Original Caption) Most unusual procedure in legal annals was recorded at the trial in Moscow

Background imageCommunism Collection: Judges and Ramzin During Industrial Party Trial

Judges and Ramzin During Industrial Party Trial
Lenoid Ramzin, left, "confesses" to being a wrecker during the trial of the Industrial Party, an organization he supposedly was head of. Andrei Vyshinsky sits right middle

Background imageCommunism Collection: Joseph Stalin

Joseph Stalin
(Original Caption) Joseph Stalin (1879-1953) Soviet political leader. Full length photograph

Background imageCommunism Collection: Collective Farmers Marching to Fields

Collective Farmers Marching to Fields
A large group of farmers march to the collective fields in a Russian town. They march in formation behind banners carrying their rakes

Background imageCommunism Collection: Leon Trotsky And Wife On Train

Leon Trotsky And Wife On Train
Leon Trotsky and his wife on a train from Esbjerg to Copenhagen, where Trotsky was to give a lecture to the students at the University. Trotsky had been exiled from the USSR by Stalin. 1932

Background imageCommunism Collection: Joseph Stalin with Officials of Central Executive Committee

Joseph Stalin with Officials of Central Executive Committee
(Original Caption) The third session of the Central Executive Committee of Soviet Russia was opened January 23 in the Andreevsky Hall of the Kremlin, Moscow

Background imageCommunism Collection: May Day in Moscow

May Day in Moscow
Soviet Government heads and leaders of the Communist Party in Russia pictured at the Lenin Mausoleum as they reviewed a military display in Red Square during the monster May Day celebration

Background imageCommunism Collection: Comrades Welcoming Friend at Penn Station

Comrades Welcoming Friend at Penn Station
A group of Communists and sympathizers welcome Angelo Herndon to New York City after his release on bail from the Georgia State Prison

Background imageCommunism Collection: Young Communist League on Parade

Young Communist League on Parade
The Young Communist League in an anti-war demonstration in New York City, ca. 1935

Background imageCommunism Collection: Mao Zedong

Mao Zedong
1936-Great leader chairman Mao will live forever in our hearts. Chairman Mao Tse-Tung in Northern Shensi in 1936

Background imageCommunism Collection: Portrait of Stalin Hanging on Building

Portrait of Stalin Hanging on Building
(Original Caption) Portraits like this one of Stalin in Leningrad are familiar sites in all of the larger cities and towns in Russia

Background imageCommunism Collection: Farm Workers Sit in Rings in Field

Farm Workers Sit in Rings in Field
(Original Caption) 8/6/1936-Vilshanka, Soviet Union-Lunch in the fields during harvesting time on the Lenin's Way collective farm in the Soviet village of Vilshanka

Background imageCommunism Collection: Workers Voting

Workers Voting
(Original Caption) Death to counter revolutionaries. The photo made in Leningrad, U.S.S.R

Background imageCommunism Collection: Karl Radek

Karl Radek
(Original Caption) Jailed in Soviet Conspiracy

Background imageCommunism Collection: Communist Leaders Celebrating Revolution's Anniversary

Communist Leaders Celebrating Revolution's Anniversary
(Original Caption) Rulers of Russia

Background imageCommunism Collection: Stalin Speaking at Congress

Stalin Speaking at Congress
Joseph Stalin speaks at a Congress of Soviets, delivering the draft of the USSR's latest constitution, in the Kremlin. Moscow, December 1936

Background imageCommunism Collection: Leon Trotsky with Frida Kahlo

Leon Trotsky with Frida Kahlo
Tampico, Mexico: Leon Trotsky, co-leader of Russian revolution 20 years ago, re-entered the new world on January 8, when he arrived at Tampico, Mexico, a refugee driven from one country to another

Background imageCommunism Collection: Nikolay Bukharin

Nikolay Bukharin
(Original Caption) 1/19/1937- Lenin's "successor" removed from post - Nikolai Bukharin, once known as Lenin's heir-apparent and a long-time political for of Joe Stalin

Background imageCommunism Collection: Soviet Officials on May Day

Soviet Officials on May Day
May Day 1937 has officials of the Soviet Union and the Communist Party reviewing a military parade

Background imageCommunism Collection: Portrait of Leon Trotsky

Portrait of Leon Trotsky
LEON TROTSKY, THE SOVIET'S MOST FEARED POLITICAL EXILE, FROM HIS MOST RECENT PICTURE, MADE IN MEXICO. FILED 8/26/37

Background imageCommunism Collection: Heywood Broun Preparing to Read a Statement

Heywood Broun Preparing to Read a Statement
Heywood Broun preparing to read a statement before the Dies Committee. Mr. Broun told the Committee that he was not a Communist

Background imageCommunism Collection: Tanks in Red Square

Tanks in Red Square
(Original Caption) 5/15/1939-Mosacow, USSR:While all the world is wondering what the course of Soviet Russia will be in the event of a blow-up in Europe

Background imageCommunism Collection: Josef Stalin and Joachim Von Ribbentrop after Treaty Signing

Josef Stalin and Joachim Von Ribbentrop after Treaty Signing
(Original Caption) Josef Stalin, (L), Russian dictator and Joachim Von Ribbentrop, German Foreign Minister

Background imageCommunism Collection: Communists on Trial for Passport Fraud

Communists on Trial for Passport Fraud
Prominent American Communists Earl Browder and Elizabeth Flynn arrive at the Federal Building for their trial on passport fraud in New York City

Background imageCommunism Collection: Communist Espionage Defendant Alger Hiss

Communist Espionage Defendant Alger Hiss
(Original Caption) Hiss-Chambers Spy trial Continues. Our photo shows Alger Hiss arriving at the Federal Court Building in New York City. Ca. 1940s-50s

Background imageCommunism Collection: Chiang Kai-shek with His Wife and Her Sisters

Chiang Kai-shek with His Wife and Her Sisters
From left to right: Madame Chiang Kai-shek, Ai-ling Soong, Chiang Kai-shek, and Madam Sun Yat-sen

Background imageCommunism Collection: Mao Zedong Speaking

Mao Zedong Speaking
(Original Caption) 11/30/1944-China: Standing on a raised platform, Mao Tse-Tung, leader of China's Communists, addresses some of his followers

Background imageCommunism Collection: Joseph Stalin at Potsdam

Joseph Stalin at Potsdam
(Original Caption) 07/30/1945-Potsdam, Germany: Generalissimo Josef Stalin raises a hand to acknowledge the salute of the guard

Background imageCommunism Collection: Ho Chi Minh at Reception

Ho Chi Minh at Reception
(Original Caption) 7/5/1946-M. Ho Chi Minh, President of the Vietnam (Annamese) Republic photographed during the reception given by the French Press

Background imageCommunism Collection: Policemen With Clubs Try To Disperse Rio

Policemen With Clubs Try To Disperse Rio
(Original Caption) 12/11/1946-Shanghai, China: Armed with clubs, Chinese policemen attempt to disperse rioters

Background imageCommunism Collection: Lilienthal Testifying On Atomic Energy

Lilienthal Testifying On Atomic Energy
(Original Caption) 2/4/1947-Washington, DC: David E



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