 Moscow, 1959
From a Life magazine gallery of Classic Pictures: May Day in Moscow: Although America observes its Labor Day on the first Monday in September, most other nations honor their working men and women on May 1. In the former Soviet Union it became a national festival of communist kitsch as the Red Army preened on parade and the party faithful proclaimed the new order.
Join Georgetown professor Ori Z. Soltes this weekend for a look at Soviet and Post-Soviet History and Culture: From Past to Future.
Related: Russian Sundays at the 92nd Street Y and Ori Z. Soltes on the Jewish Abstract Expressionists After the Holocaust
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