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June 5, 2009 - 10:22 am
Filed in: 1920s, 1930s, Archives, Avia-Corner, Photographs

This past month, Duke University Libraries unveiled a new digital collection documenting daily life in the early Soviet Union. Titled, “Americans in the Land of Lenin,” the photographic archive contains 750 images drawn from the personal papers of two Americans who found themselves in the USSR during the two decades that followed October 1917.
Robert L. [...]

July 15, 2008 - 10:14 am
Filed in: Avia-Corner, Great Patriotic War, Photographs, Sources

[Cross-posted from The Russian Front]
I’ve said it before, but it bears repeating: It’s amazing what one can find on the Internet.
In the summer of 2005, the city of Moscow played host to a photographic exhibit honoring the 60th anniversary of the Great Patriotic War. Titled, “1418 Days,” the exhibit drew upon a collection of [...]


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