Monthly Archives: August 2014

Prokudin-Gorskii photography: Jewish Children with their Teacher

As a photography student myself, there is nothing I love more than photographs of people. These images present much more than a face– they illustrate a sense of time, culture and place. The collection of Prokudin-Gorskii images vary from objects … Continue reading

Russia’s Industrialization

The photograph above, “Factory Interior with Electrical Generators” is from the  Prokudin-Gorskii collection taken on the Murghab River circa 1910. These generators were imported from Hungary, which helps to give one an idea about Russia’s industrialization capacity in the early 1900′s. Before the Crimean war, Russia had a very weak economy with little industrialization compared … Continue reading »

Russia’s Industrialization

The photograph above, “Factory Interior with Electrical Generators” is from the  Prokudin-Gorskii collection taken on the Murghab River circa 1910. These generators were imported from Hungary, which helps to give one an idea about Russia’s industrialization capacity in the early 1900′s. Before the Crimean war, Russia had a very weak economy with little industrialization compared […]

Welcome, Comrades! (Some Blogging Advice)

Hello there – my name is Leah, and I am happy to say that I am a part of the Editorial Team for the course this semester.  I took this class in Fall 2013 and also took Soviet Culture in Fall 2012 (wow, that seems like a long time ago), so even though I have […]

Welcome, Comrades! (Some Blogging Advice)

Hello there – my name is Leah, and I am happy to say that I am a part of the Editorial Team for the course this semester.  I took this class in Fall 2013 and also took Soviet Culture in Fall 2012 (wow, that seems like a long time ago), so even though I have […]

Get to know me!

Hi All! My name is Robyn Walters and I am super excited to be a part of the editorial team for the Fall 2014 20th Century Russian History class. I am a senior here at Virginia Tech and am majoring in Political Science with minors in History and Russian Studies. I spent a month in […]