This posting from SEELANGS had some good links to online Russian pictures.


Date: Wed, 16 Jan 2008 12:40:15 +0200
From: Maria Dmytrieva
Subject: Re: meaning of " ochered' " / Soviet time photos

LiveJournal can be an extremely rich sorce of materials from the point of view of both history and culture. you can look, for instance, at the community Vintage Photo -- http://community.livejournal.com/vintagephoto/ -- this one is constantly updated by people from English and Russian speaking communities (well, Russian-speaking community is second largest in LiveJournal after English. maybe because LiveJournal is forbidden in in China) and most photos are accompanied by family stories. the timespan of photos shared covers the entire period of existence of photography as such. unlike intentionally ideologically loaded Soviet-obsessed websites like http://www.sovetika.ru/ or http://sovietsite.narod.ru/ these photos show everyday life as it was perceived by people, not as presented by propagandists.

another community worth interest is http://community.livejournal.com/soviet_life/ where people share their memories about artefacts of the Soviet time. in the profile of this community you can find links to blogs that specialize in different aspects or periods of the Soviet time as well as the list of communities about Soviet time -- http://community.livejournal.com/soviet_life/130289.html there are also several communities for people born in specific periods -- like in 1970-1975 and 1976-1982 -- to share their memories (http://community.livejournal.com/70_75/ and http://community.livejournal.com/76_82/) because we do feel that the only thing left for us from the country we were born in is our memories so we have to share them -- to preserve.

and the last one I would like to mention is less connected to the Soviet past as such -- it is just extremely interesting research material per se: http://community.livejournal.com/agitplakat/ where people share their variants of old and new political posters (like Soviet-time posters from here http://plakat.ru/ or Chinese war posters) with changed inscriptions offering their vision of what is now important.

With best regards,
Maria

ps. the issue of the Soviet Union being widely presented online (for instance, the wesite offering a huge amount of Soviet music -- http://www.sovmusic.ru/ or http://www.davno.ru/ -- a huge collection of posters and postcards of the Soviet time) and pecularities of its presentation seem to be a very interesting research topic. 

From: "Alina Israeli"

> Nostalgic photos, particularly for those who were not born yet:
> http://drugoi.livejournal.com/2465663.html