Cover of Soviet Life Magazine in honour of the 60th anniversary of the formation of the USSR, December 1982 Today marks the anniversary...

Meeting of the Petrograd Soviet, October 22 1917, just three days before the Revolution -- Daily LIFT #613

During the centennial year of Lenin's birth, 1970, Mikhail Yeryomin, a retired Soviet Major-General who was then working for the...

Photos of Revolutionary Russia #48 Demonstration of women demanding equal voting rights, Petrograd, March 1917 -- Photos of Revolutionary...

Photos of Revolutionary Russia #44 Izvestia is issued at the Petrograd Soviet for delivery to troops at the front, 1917 -- Photos of...

Photos of Revolutionary Russia #42 Red Guard at Smolny, October 1917 -- Photos of Revolutionary Russia #42 Members of a Red Guard unit...

Photos of Revolutionary Russia #24 Red Guard of Petrograd at the May Day demonstration, 1917 -- Photos of Revolutionary Russia #24

Photos of Revolutionary Russia #21 Red Guard patrol campfire on the streets of Petrograd in the early days of the Great October Socialist...

Photos of Revolutionary Russia #20 People's Militia arrest a czarist minister, Petrograd, February 28, 1917 -- Photos of Revolutionary...

Photos of Revolutionary Russia #19 Worker demonstration in Petrograd during the "July Days", 1917 -- Photos of Revolutionary Russia #19...

Photos of Revolutionary Russia #18 Volunteers enroll in the people's militia, Petrograd, March 1917 -- Photos of Revolutionary Russia #18...

Photos of Revolutionary Russia #16 Armored car arrives at Smolny to support the Revolutionary Military Committee, October 25 1917 --...

Photos of Revolutionary Russia #14 Group of soldiers in Petrograd who went over to the side of the February Revolution, 1917 -- Photos of...

Photos of Revolutionary Russia #13 Women's rally in Petrograd demanding equal voting rights, March 1917 - Photos of Revolutionary Russia...

Photos of Revolutionary Russia #8 Red Army volunteers line up at a recruitment centre, Petrograd 1918 -- Photos of Revolutionary Russia #8

Photos of Revolutionary Russia #2 A group of Red infantrymen at the Winter Palace, Petrograd 1918 In the very early days of the...

Photos of Revolutionary Russia #1 Red Guards and revolutionary soldiers guarding Smolny, Petrograd, October 1917 -- Photo by famed Soviet...