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The Soviet Century: Russian Photography in the Lafuente Archive (1917-1972) georgian history are as astonishingly alert andThe Soviet Century brings together some 550 photographs by almost 50 great masters of Russian photography, which document the history of Russia between 1917 and 1970. Authors such as Aleksandr Rodchenko, Giorgi Zelma and El Lissitzky portrayed meetings, celebrations, protests, parades, factories, farms, cities, buildings, wars and they also made countless portraits of political leaders, writers, artists, children peasants, soldiers, miners, etc.