Rodchenko and Stepanova’s album “Ten Years of Uzbekistan” was commissioned and produced in 1933, with the intent of producing a luxurious folio to commemorate the tenth-year anniversary of the Uzbek Socialist Soviet Republic. At the time, the Central Asian republic was considered “an exemplary space” for manifesting the Socialist goal.
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The shaping of Communist ideology in the midst of 20th-century geopolitics informed Stalin’s domestic policies as well as the Soviet Union’s role on the world stage.
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Sheila Fitzpatrick discusses multiple lenses through which to investigate the event 100 years later.
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Anne O’Donnell discusses the challenges in taking inventory of property during the first years of Soviet socialism.
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Historians and anthropologists discuss the impacts and legacies of Soviet-African relations of the 20th century.
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Stealing public property was a mechanism for coping with the Socialist realities
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Yanni Kotsonis presents the question, Should we as historians be investing such meaning in the 1917 Revolution?
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Albeit brief, Albania was for a short while held up by China as a model for socialism.
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