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      Caption: Variant 1 (shown): “La famine en Russie. III LES DEUX ÉTAPES DE LA FAIM: les membres squelettiques, le ventre ballonné (par l’herbe, la paille, l’écorce d’arbre, les vers, la terre). Ces enfants ne peuvent plus être sauvés, il est trop tard. Pour les sauver, il eût fallu les nourrir ...

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      Captioned as: "'Blue Beard': James Abbe en route in Russia; Moscow 1927." in Shooting Stalin : The 'Wonderful' Years of Photographer James Abbe (1883-1973); [Zur Ausstellung "Shooting Stalin - Die 'Wunderbaren' Jahre Des Fotografen James Abbe" Im Museum Ludwig, Köln, 2. Oktober 2004-9. Januar 2005] = Die "Wunderbaren" Jahre Des ...

      Caption on back of photo: “FORBIDDEN. Kharkov. Peasants waiting for a train. Abbe arrested for this.” Caption in I Photograph Russia: "FORBIDDEN. I was arrested for taking this railway scene. Starved peasants wait weeklong for trains to some objective they vainly imagine is the Promised Land where they may find ...

      Caption on photo: [no caption.] Caption in I Photograph Russia: "FORBIDDEN. Photographing any queue is taboo, especially a food queue. At his risk and peril, the writer caught this view of a line forming he dare not tell how long before the stores opened."

      Caption on photo: [no caption.] Caption in I Photograph Russia: "Be it ever so humble...This picture shows the homes of the workers on the Dnieperstroy dam and, his back turned, the child of one of them."

      Caption on back of photo: “Russia coal-region hospitality for foreigners. Donetz Basin (in famine belt)” Caption in I Photograph Russia: "While the peasant starves, our distinguished foreign visitor fares very nicely...especially if he signs an affidavit stating that he has seen no famine in the Don Basin."

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      Caption: “Un coin de cimetière du pays dessèche. ‘Si les Gouvernements d'Europe avalent accorde les secours demandes en octobre 1921, tous les affamés auraient été sauvés.’ NANSEN.” [A corner of the parched country's cemetery. "If the European governments had taken up the rescue requests in October 1921, all the hungry ...

      "Die Fabrik am kalten Berge" [The factory on Cold Mountain (Холодна Гора)]

      The individuals seated on the front bench were sentenced to death for seeking vengeance against the authorities for the seizure of their property. They are surrounded by Soviet authorities in uniform. A group of people in civilian clothing are seen in the back rows. The photo appears to have been ...

      Album of 25 photographs presented by the photographer to Cardinal Theodor Innitzer, Roman Catholic Archbishop of Vienna, Austria in 1934.

      Caption under photo in Answers: “Even those who are still at work in Russia, and who, therefore, are entitled to a ration of bread, have to wait – sometimes for hours – in long queues before they can get it.”

      “Proletarier aller Länder vereinigt euch!....(im Massengrab.)” [Proletarians of all countries unite! ... (in the mass grave)].

      A Note on the Collection Nikolai Fedorovich Bokan (1881–1942) was a photographer from Baturyn, Chernihiv oblast, in Soviet Ukraine. Among Nikolai’s surviving photos are those that document his family’s experience of the Holodomor, and notably the death of one of his sons from starvation. The photos included in this collection ...

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      In the original photo, we see a tall thin woman standing, as if waiting, near a modern, new factory building. She is wearing a heavy coat, although the man behind her is simply wearing a shirt and summer white shoes, and others in the distance are also not heavily dressed. ...