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The Last Supper
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St. Petersburg
![](http://sites.nd.edu/world-politics-2017/files/2017/09/Russian-peasants-around-1900.jpg)
Russian peasants around 1900
![](http://sites.nd.edu/world-politics-2017/files/2017/09/Sergei-Korovin-A-Gathering-of-the-Mir-800x430.jpg)
Populists gathering at the mir
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Lenin in Belarus
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Lenin in Hanoi
![](http://sites.nd.edu/world-politics-2017/files/2017/09/Lenin-in-Beijing.jpg)
Lenin in Beijing
![](http://sites.nd.edu/world-politics-2017/files/2017/09/manyLenins.jpg)
Many Lenins
![](http://sites.nd.edu/world-politics-2017/files/2017/09/WWI-Russia.jpg)
What war looks like
![](http://sites.nd.edu/world-politics-2017/files/2017/09/petrograd-soviet-assembly-meeting-1917-lg.jpg)
Soviet self-government 1917
![](http://sites.nd.edu/world-politics-2017/files/2017/09/storm-winter-palace-1024x763.jpg)
Storming the Winter Palace
![](http://sites.nd.edu/world-politics-2017/files/2017/09/Forward-to-victory.jpg)
Stalin, the Great Leader
![](http://sites.nd.edu/world-politics-2017/files/2017/09/Stalin-eta-Mao.jpg)
Two Great Leaders
![](http://sites.nd.edu/world-politics-2017/files/2017/09/Joseph_Stalin_with_daughter_Svetlana_19351.jpg)
Stalin, the Great Father
![](http://sites.nd.edu/world-politics-2017/files/2017/09/Realstalin-1024x576.jpg)
The Real Stalin
![](http://sites.nd.edu/world-politics-2017/files/2017/09/magnitogorsk-112.jpg)
An industrial miracle: Magnitogorsk
![](http://sites.nd.edu/world-politics-2017/files/2017/09/ukraine-growth.png)
Building a Soviet Nation-state: Ukraine
![](http://sites.nd.edu/world-politics-2017/files/2017/09/Reagan-at-Wall-1024x576.jpg)
“Tear down that wall” (and other fallacies)
![](http://sites.nd.edu/world-politics-2017/files/2017/09/1140-fall-of-berlin-wall-the-wall.imgcache.rev0e8bcce0390f45d9948005d13e47a169.web_.jpg)
The opening of the Berlin Wall (not quite what it seemed)
![](http://sites.nd.edu/world-politics-2017/files/2017/09/Gorbachev-and-Honecker.jpg)
Looking forward (Mikhail Gorbachev); looking backward (Erich Honecker)
![](http://sites.nd.edu/world-politics-2016/files/2016/09/yeltsin-on-tank.jpg)
Man on a Tank
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Man on a Horse