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This page links to some of our visual sources on Russia and the Soviet Union in the decade after the revolution, made available through our digitisation projects on 'The Russian Revolution and Britain, 1917-1928' and 'Henry Sara's lantern lectures'.

Revolution

• : 101 colourised photographic slides of revolutionary 'struggle' against the Tsarist regime, and the upheavals of the October Revolution and Russian Civil War (digitised as part of Henry Sara's lantern lectures).
• , by John Reed. The pamphlet includes two photos taken during the October Revolution.

Daily life and general views

• : 104 colourised photographic slides of Soviet Russia shortly after the Russian Revolution, focusing on the lives of the general population (digitised as part of Henry Sara's lantern lectures).
• : 155 photographic slides of Russia eight years after the revolution, taken by the British Communist Henry Sara. Identifiable places include St Petersburg, Moscow and Nizhny Novgorod (digitised as part of Henry Sara's lantern lectures). 41 photographs taken by Sara during his visit are also .
• : 79 photographic slides and other images portraying Russian Turkestan (now Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan and Tajikistan) in the 1920s (digitised as part of Henry Sara's lantern lectures).
• : mixture of photographic slides of Russia, Russians and propaganda material (digitised as part of Henry Sara's lantern lectures).

• . Commemorative booklet (in Russian). Contains images of Petrograd (Leningrad / St Petersburg) in 1918-1919, including of the first anniversary celebrations, mass meetings, and welfare and electrification projects.
• , 1920. Pamphlet which includes 17 photographs of co-operative movement projects and buildings in Russia, including village dairy, chemical lab and factories.
• Photographs of Russian workers (in railway works, on building site, etc.), collected by the 1920 Trades Union Congress delegation and included in articles for the (6 photos) and the (5 photos).
• Photographs collected by the 1920 Trades Union Congress delegation and published in (5 photos - children, the Subbotnik and delegates addressing Russian audiences).

• , 1920. Article by A.E. Thompson, a telegraph operator who served in Russia with the British army. Includes 7 photos of Archangel, the local wireless station and Samoyod visitors.

• , 1920. Article by William McLaine, including 3 photos (Putilov works and statue of 'The Metalist' at Petrograd).
• . Includes photographs taken during Mann's 1921 visit to Russia, including images of the founding congress of the Red International of Trade Unions, a boat trip on the Volga (with Kalinin) and famine refugees in Samara. The album also contains various non-Russian images.

• . Pamphlet contains 31 photographs, including images of crowds viewing the coffin and anarchists speaking at the graveside.

• , 1923. Pamphlet contains 14 photographs, including images of Russian projects helped by the loan (mostly farms and factories).

• , 1924. Contains 19 illustrations, including photos of welfare and housing projects.

• , 1925. Contains 26 illustrations, including photos of buildings, sanatoria, peasants, pioneers, and the delegation.

• , 1925. It includes general views of Moscow and Leningrad.

• , 1925. Includes 11 photos of leading trade unionists, trade union facilities (including children's home and gym) and buildings.

• , 1926. Includes 4 photographs of atrocities.

• , 1927. Photograph album which includes official views of Soviet leisure / sport, welfare and educational facilities, housing and military.
• , 1927. Pamphlet which contains 17 photos of union facilities / activities, including Crimea convalescent home, employees' clubs, children's centre, village militia, co-operatives, office 'Red Corner', employees' drama group performing 'China, Arise!', and sports.
• , no.1, July 1927. The back page contains photos of Red Army march in Red Square, tractors at the Putilov works, Soviet leaders (Rykov, Tomsky and Stalin), and a public demonstration outside the British mission in Moscow.

Soviet leaders

• : 111 slides on the life of Vladimir Lenin - from childhood to death (digitised as part of Henry Sara's lantern lectures).
• : 64 slides on the life of Trotsky - from childhood to life in exile during the 1930s (digitised as part of Henry Sara's lantern lectures).
• . Commemorative booklet (in Russian), including images of leading Bolsheviks in 1919.

• , 1924. Heavily illustrated publication produced after the death of Lenin.

• , 1925. Commemorative album published in Germany, containing images of Lenin from childhood to death.
• , 1925. The second half contains photographs of Soviet leaders.

Portraits of British delegations

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• 1920 Trades Union Congress delegation: 2 photos of delegates addressing meetings included in .
• : 5 photos collected by Ben Tillett, including 3 of the delegation in Russia.
• : photo of the 1924 Trades Union Congress delegation published in 'The Sunday Pictorial'.
• : cartoon of A.A. Purcell, member of the 1924 Trades Union Congress delegation, reproduced from a Soviet newspaper.
• , photographed in a crowd at train station.
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• , during his 1926 visit to Russia. Includes images of Collick and fellow delegates with Soviet workers.

Cartoons / paintings

• . Cartoon on the February Revolution and overthrow of the Tsar in the National Union of Railwaymen's newspaper 'The Railway Review'.

• . Anti-Bolshevik pamphlet, with front cover portraying a drowning man (Russia) being saved from a raging sea (by the Allies) whilst other perish around him.

• , 1919. Cartoon about White Russian atrocities illustrating an article by Henry Sara.
• : undated (probably 1920s) cartoon on Bolshevik redistribution of wealth, published by the Workers' Socialist Federation.
• , 1920. Cartoon about the British labour movement's anti-militarism during Russo-Polish War, from the National Union of Railwaymen's newspaper 'The Railway Review'.
• , 1920. Cartoon about the Council of Action, formed to prevent direct British military intervention in the Russo-Polish War, from 'The Railway Review'.
• , 1924. Labour Party election leaflet which uses a spoof of the cartoon used in adverts for Kruschen Salts to promote the Anglo-Russian trade agreement.

• International Anti-Bolshevik Review, 1926. Includes anti-Communist cartoons on the (monster sitting on pile of skulls), , , , the , , , the , , , and .