I plan several posts from the Russian collection of photos by Margaret Bourke-White. These are all from 1931 in addition to the 1931 Magnitogorsk photos and 1941 Stalin photos.
Worker tightening a bolt on a generator shell. Dnieper River Dam.
Russian elementary school students sitting stoically at desks in classroom in a remot village in the Volga region.
Russian priest.
Russian women loading crushed rock. Novorossisk
Russian quarry workers manning hoppers of rock for making cement at factory. Novorossisk
Russian children playing in a nursery in an auto plant. Moscow
Russian children waiting their turn at a children's clinic in front of a painting of Lenin. Moscow
Russian female worker using a plane while man supervises her work at hammer & sickle factory in Siberia.
Carl B. Radek holding pipe at home.
This is the famous international revolutionary AKA Karol Sobelsohn.
Russian peasant women eating food fr. the same bowl.
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