Elements of the sphere and ribbon pennants carried the moon by the second Soviet cosmic rocket to land there -- Daily LIFT #1786

Red Guards in the streets of Petrograd in the days leading up to the Great October Socialist Revolution, from a drawing by V. Khvostenko, USSR 1942 -- Daily LIFT #1785

Soviet schoolchildren visit the Museum of the Revolution, USSR 1959 -- Daily LIFT #1784

For the power of the Soviets, drawing by N. Kochergin, USSR -- Daily LIFT #1783

Che Guevara on a mule in Las Villas, Cuba during the revolutionary war, 1958 -- Daily LIFT #1782

Fred Hampton speaks outside a courthouse, October 29, 1969 -- Daily LIFT #1781 He would be murdered by the FBI and Chicago police just over a month later. We've got to face the fact that some people say you fight fire best with fire, but we say you put fire out best with water. We say you don't fight racism with racism. We're gonna fight racism with solidarity. We say you don't fight capitalism with no black capitalism; you fight capitalism with socialism. - Fred Hampton on s

A meeting of the Petrograd Military Revolutionary Committee, painting, B. Yohanson, USSR -- Daily LIFT #1780

Storming the Winter Palace, illustration, USSR -- Daily LIFT #1779

Felix Dzerzhinsky giving instructions to the Commissars of the Military Revolutionary Committee in the days following the triumph of the Revolution, illustration, USSR, c. 1942 -- Daily LIFT #1678

At work on the Bratsk Hydroelectric Power Station, USSR, 1959 -- Daily LIFT #1767 When it was completed in 1967 it was the largest in the world.

Vera Burdenko, champion trapshooter of the USSR, 1947 -- Daily LIFT #1766 From the Soviet Press: "Vera Burdenko of Sverdlovsk won first place in shooting from a standing position and approach and double shot in the national trapshooting contest held recently in Moscow in October, 1947."

Huey P. Newton of the Black Panthers and Samora Moisés Machel of the Mozambique Liberation Front (FRELIMO) meet in the People's Republic of China, 1971 -- Daily LIFT #1765

"Those who know, teach": At a village literacy class, People's Republic of China, 1956 -- Daily LIFT #1764

The First Tractor Arrives, illustration, Li Chi, People's Republic of China, 1950 -- Daily LIFT #1763 About the illustration: "The peasants show great interest in the first tractor arriving from the Soviet Union, which heralds great changes ahead in the rural mode of production."

Mural, USSR, 1962 -- Daily LIFT #1762

Women voting in the People's Republic of China, 1954 -- Daily LIFT #1761 From the PRC press: In 1954, in China's first general election, 278 million people elected their delegates to more than 280,000 local people's congresses. In subsequent rounds, deputies were elected to the county, municipal and provincial congresses and those of the various national autonomous. regions-and finally to the National People's Congress which adopted the Constitution with socialism as its goal

A view of the USSR Exhibition of Economic Achievements in Moscow, USSR 1959 -- Daily LIFT #1760

The New Title Deeds, illustration, People's Republic of China 1950 -- Daily LIFT #1759 From the PRC press: The final stage of land reform and redistribution from the feudal landlords is reached when the new peasant land owners receive their title-deeds bearing a red official seal.

The iconic Worker and Kolkhoz Woman statue of Vera Mukhina outside the USSR Exhibition of Economic Achievements in Moscow, 1959 -- Daily LIFT #1758

At the Village Co-op, Woodcut, Yang Ke-yang, People's Republic of China, 1951 -- Daily LIFT #1757