This book contains five stories from Hughes’ books Not without Laughter and The Ways of White Folk. The commentators highlight the influence of Soviet writers like Maksim Gorky and Vladimir Mayakovsky on Hughes and provide a brief overview of the…
The book consists of ten spirituals, with English and Czech lyrics and chords for guitar. Following the Communist coup in 1948, interest in Black spirituals as songs of liberation grew in Czechoslovakia, and this book of music for guitar and voice…
In the 1920s and 1930s, the People’s Commissariat of Posts and Telegraphs of the USSR (NKPT) produced vast quantities of propaganda postcards, printing two million copies of this one alone. The postcard’s anti-lynching caption and illustration…
A weekly about theater, cinematography, circus, stage performing, music, art and photography. On the cover, is featured well-known tenor Roland Hayes' (1887-1977) portrait. He toured in the Soviet Union in 1928, the same year the magazine was…
Translation of the script of Larry Pierce’s film “One Potato, Two Potato” about a love affair between a white woman and an African-American man in the United States, in a racist social setting.
A children’s book by Anna Kardashova printed in 1952 on the hard life of Black people in the United States. It tells the story of Little Rob who lives with his family in a tiny shack in the middle of a big city in America.
Published in Stalin’s…
Collection of essays written by Soviet scholars of ethnography, history, and economics that deal with questions of race: whether race can be considered a social category, whether racism always occurs, and under which circumstances it can be…
The book discusses the fight of twenty million Black people and American progressive forces against racism. It delves into the fight against racial discrimination during the 1950s and 1960s, the various organizations and leaders that led this…
This book discusses the politics of the Black community’s rights in post-war Unites States. Geevshii analyzes the role of African Americans’ fight for equality in the internal politics of the U.S. and ties it to the global fight against…