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Daily LIFT #764
Kim Il Sung and Mao enjoying a chat and cigarette in China, 1961 -- Daily LIFT #765
Michael Laxer
Jul 28, 20221 min read


Daily LIFT #763
Mao and Khrushchev in Beijing, summer 1958 -- Daily LIFT #763
Michael Laxer
Jul 27, 20221 min read


Daily LIFT #762
B. B. King in the USSR, 1979 -- Daily LIFT #762 King toured the USSR in 1979 and played to huge and very appreciative crowds in Moscow,...
Michael Laxer
Jul 25, 20221 min read


Daily LIFT #761
V. I. Lenin at the Second Congress of the Communist International -- Daily LIFT #761 The photo is generally believed to be from July 23,...
Michael Laxer
Jul 23, 20221 min read


Daily LIFT #760
Konstantin Tsiolkovsky, July 22 1932 -- Daily LIFT #760 The photographer, Mikhail Ozersky, in 1963 wrote of the photo that was taken on...
Michael Laxer
Jul 22, 20221 min read


Daily LIFT #759
Soviet author Maxim Gorky bids farewell to to French novelist Romain Rolland and his wife after their trip to the USSR, Moscow, July 21...
Michael Laxer
Jul 21, 20221 min read


Daily LIFT #758
Lenin among the gathered delegates for the Second Congress of the Communist International, July 1920 -- Daily LIFT #758
Michael Laxer
Jul 20, 20221 min read


Daily LIFT #757
V. I. Lenin making a speech at a mass rally during the laying of the foundation stone for a monument to K. Liebknecht and R. Luxemburg,...
Michael Laxer
Jul 19, 20221 min read


Daily Lift #756
Hammer and Sickle flag at a Communist march in London, UK 1928 -- Daily LIFT #756
Michael Laxer
Jul 18, 20221 min read


Daily LIFT #755
Lenin, Moscow, July 1920 -- Daily LIFT #755
Michael Laxer
Jul 16, 20221 min read


Daily LIFT #754
Che at a chess tournament in Havana -- Daily LIFT #754 Che was an avid, and by all accounts serious, chess player. After the revolution...
Michael Laxer
Jul 13, 20221 min read


On Tactics: 3rd World Congress of the Third International (Comintern), July 12, 1921
Third Communist International Poster The 3rd World Congress of the Third International (Comintern) ran from June 22-July 12, Moscow 1921....
Michael Laxer
Jul 12, 20225 min read


Daily LIFT #752
Comrades Fidel Castro and Leonid Brezhnev enjoying a light moment -- Daily LIFT #752
Michael Laxer
Jul 11, 20221 min read


Daily LIFT #751
Karl Marx bust, People's Republic of China c. 1970 -- Daily LIFT #751
Michael Laxer
Jul 10, 20221 min read


Daily LIFT #750
Kim Il-Sung and Ho Chi Minh share a drink at a banquet in Hanoi, 1959 -- Daily LIFT #750
Michael Laxer
Jul 9, 20221 min read


Daily LIFT #749
Ho Chi Minh and Chinese Premier Zhou Enlai eating and drinking Maotai together in Hanoi, 1960 -- Daily LIFT #749
Michael Laxer
Jul 7, 20221 min read


Daily LIFT #748
March in celebration of the anniversary of the Bolshevik Revolution, Moscow USSR, 1971 -- Daily LIFT #748
Michael Laxer
Jul 6, 20221 min read


Daily LIFT #747
New tractor is delivered to a collective farm, Ukrainian SSR, USSR, spring 1939 -- Daily LIFT #747 The rapid industrialization of the...
Michael Laxer
Jul 5, 20221 min read


Daily LIFT #746
Demobilized Red Army soldiers arrive home at the Byelorussia Railroad Station, Moscow after the victory over the Nazis in the Great...
Michael Laxer
Jul 3, 20221 min read


Daily LIFT #745
Poster for the 30th anniversary of the formation of the Communist Party of China, 1951 -- Daily LIFT #745 July 1 was the 101st anniversary.
Michael Laxer
Jul 1, 20221 min read
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