[Men preparing logs in order to construct new homes after being destroyed in the war, Aktau, USSR]

[Men rebuilding homes destroyed by the war, Aktau, USSR]

[Man and woman standing on a partially built house, Akau, USSR]

[Men building a house, Aktau, USSR]

[Farmers preparing grain by hand, Aktau, USSR]

[Farmers preparing grain by hand, Aktau, USSR]

[Man reading book, Moscow]

[Swan Lake ballet performance at the Bolshoi Theatre, Moscow]

[Ballet performance at the Bolshoi Theatre, Moscow]

[Ballet performance at the Bolshoi Theatre, Moscow]

[Swan Lake ballet performance at the Bolshoi Theatre, Moscow]

[Boy and girl practicing a dance together, Moscow]

[Woman teaching a piano lesson, Moscow]

[Customer at the counter looking at books in a book store, Tiflis, Georgian Soviet Socialist Republic]

[Women picking tea leaves up during the harvest, Guria, Georgian Soviet Socialist Republic]

[Woman kissing a sculpted cross on an external church wall, Soviet Republic of Georgia]

[Woman kissing a sculpted cross on an external church wall, Soviet Republic of Georgia]

[Customer at the counter looking at a doll in a store, Tiflis, Georgian Soviet Socialist Republic]

[Joseph E. Davies, author of "Mission to Moscow" and former ambassador to the former Soviet Union, clapping as Soviet naval officers mount the stage for a Russian War Relief Rally, Randall's Island, New York]

[Men sitting on the floor selling potatoes to customers at an outdoor food market, Tiflis, Soviet Republic of Georgia]

[Woman praying in front of a sculpted cross on an external church wall, Soviet Republic of Georgia]

[Children of an orphanage dancing and playing in a garden in Batumi's outskirts, Batumi, Soviet Republic of Georgia]

[Children of an orphanage dancing and playing in a garden in Batumi's outskirts, Batumi, Soviet Republic of Georgia]

[Children of an orphanage dancing and playing in a garden in Batumi's outskirts, Batumi, Soviet Republic of Georgia]