This text-heavy site offers information on seventeen key years in the history of the USSR, from 1917 to 1991. Each yearly section comes with texts, contexts, images, music files and video files (using Real Player) from contemporary Soviet films, taken from the Russian State Film & Photo Archive at Krasnogorsk. The project is funded by the National Endowment for Humanities (NEH), and created by James von Geldern (Macalester College) and Lewis Siegelbaum (Michigan State University).