PLATES
1. 1169: Novgorod icon about victory in the struggle for Kievan succession
2. Kizhi wooden church from the fourteenth century
3. Tsar Aleksei Mikhailovich 1645–76
4. 17th century: Engraving of peasants
5. Peter the Great
6. Catherine the Great
7. Religious procession in the 1870s, (Ilya Repin painting)
8. Nicholas II and family
9. Peasant elders c.1910
10. Petrograd demonstration in 1917
11. Antireligious campaign
12. Sculpture by Vera Mukhina, ‘The Worker and the Kolkhoz Woman’
13. Doctoring photographs
14. Ukrainian collective farmers handing a corn wreath to Nikita Khrushchev, 19 September 1963
15. Party Congress: Brezhnev, Podgnorny, Andropov, Kosygin
16. Reagan and Gorbachev at Geneva summit
17. Yeltsin after the defeat of the coup in August 1991
18. Putin and Medvedev (May day, 2008)