Photography Soviet Era

The photographs were taken between 1959 and 2004 and give a rare glimpse at daily life in the USSR

Forced to go underground: This photograph by Evgeny Raskopov shows the military force of Stalin's army during the 1930s when his communist government took control of artists' unions

The ordinary and avant-garde: Photographers from this era worked on the very fringes of official art and culture, exhibiting their works underground in alternative spaces until the 1990s

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