03 | The Romnja Murynkina and Žukovskaja as workers at Moscow’s Šarikopodšipnik (‘ball bearings’) factory, October 1931. Its propagandistic function notwithstanding, the photograph documents the forced inclusion of the Roma into the state-controlled economy of the Soviet Union. Some collective farms (kolkhozes) were also run by the Roma.

Nikolai Bessonov Collection