Working Lives Research Institute
The TUC Library Collections have received £1000 grant aid from The Lipman-Miliband Trust to translate Russian language documents, posters and photo albums brought back by Labour Movement delegations to the Soviet Union 1920-1925.
Chris Coates, of the TUC Library Collections and WLRI Associate, said:
"The many photographic and other images in the collection will be of interest to art historians and the media, among other users. The posters and photographic records kept by the delegations provide a fascinating view of life in post-revolutionary Russia. They include contemporary cultural images - from Russian Avant-Garde theatre set designs, to posters from the radical ROSTA group and images with origins in Russian folk-art."
Dr Marko Bojcun, Senior Lecturer in Governance and International Relations at London Metropolitan University, has found the collection also contains, "a rich seam of primary source material for the study of the attitudes and motives of the British labour movement, government and public towards the emergence of the Soviet Union in 1917."
For more information contact Chris Coates: c.coates@londonmet.ac.uk