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33. Leaders and militants of the Communist Party of Great Britain in the early 1920s.

34. The Italian delegation to the Second Comintern Congress in July 1920. Their tourist guide on this occasion was the curly-haired, tie-wearing Zinoviev who stands in the middle of the line.

35. Arthur Ransome.

36. Yevgenia Shelepina.

37. Willie Gallacher.

38. Tanks on the streets of Glasgow during the strikes of early 1919.

39. Red Army POWs in Finnish captivity

40. Session of the Congress of the Peoples of the East in Baku in September 1920. Zinoviev, seated in front of the bell, presided.

41. Leading delegates to the Third Comintern Congress (June–July 1921) gather under the joint statue of Marx and Engels.

42. The Soviet delegation to the talks at Genoa and Rapallo in April 1922. Chicherin stands smiling, third from the left. Litvinov, his deputy, stands second from the right. Krasin is next to him on the left.

43. Joseph Stalin speaking in mourning for Lenin, January 1924.

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