Michael Laxer
15 Years of the GDR: Textile Worker -- Stamps of the GDR #31
15 Years of the GDR: Textile Worker -- Stamps of the GDR #31 A stamp honouring 15 years of socialism and the German Democratic Republic...
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Michael Laxer
- 2 days ago
- 3 min
Praskovia Angelina: Hero of Socialist Labor
Praskovia Angelina (also Praskov’ia Nikitichna Angelina) (1913-1959) From Soviet Women, 1953: The collective farm system has produced a...
Michael Laxer
- 4 days ago
- 1 min
Marx, Engels, Lenin and Stalin banner over the Kremlin -- Stamps of the GDR #30
Marx, Engels, Lenin and Stalin banner over the Kremlin -- Stamps of the GDR #30 The thirtieth in our new The Left Chapter series looking...
Michael Laxer
- May 25
- 1 min
Wartburg Castle anniversary stamp -- Stamps of the GDR #29
Wartburg Castle anniversary stamp -- Stamps of the GDR #29 Wartburg Castle in Thuringia is probably most famous as the place where Martin...
Michael Laxer
- May 23
- 5 min
Mao at the Yan'an Forum on Literature and Art, May 23 1942
On May 23, 1942, Mao gave his famous and ideologically significant concluding thoughts on the role of revolutionary literature and art at...
Michael Laxer
- May 23
- 1 min
Day of the Child stamp, 1964 -- Stamps of the GDR #28
Day of the Child stamp, 1964 -- Stamps of the GDR #28 The twenty-eighth in our new The Left Chapter series looking at over 70 stamps from...
Michael Laxer
- May 20
- 2 min
Motorball: The Soviet sport you have probably never heard of
Motorball (sometimes also called Motoball) is a sport that apparently was invented in France in 1934 but that became most popular in the...
Michael Laxer
- May 19
- 2 min
Leningrad -- Hero City of the USSR
Soviet artillery in action during the siege of Leningrad From a folder of historic cards published in 1985 on the 40th anniversary of the...
Michael Laxer
- May 18
- 1 min
Marx & Engels -- Stamps of the GDR #27
Marx & Engels -- Stamps of the GDR #27 The twenty-seventh in our new The Left Chapter series looking at over 70 stamps from the German...
Michael Laxer
- May 15
- 3 min
The story of the iconic 1939 Norman Bethune photo
In May, 1972, in the magazine China Reconstructs photographer Wu Yin-hsien told the story of how he came to take the iconic photo of Dr....
Michael Laxer
- May 15
- 1 min
Day of the Child stamp, 1964 -- Stamps of the GDR #26
Day of the Child stamp, 1964 -- Stamps of the GDR #26 The twenty-sixth in our new The Left Chapter series looking at over 70 stamps from...
Michael Laxer
- May 12
- 1 min
Marx Speaks at the International Workingmen's Association -- Stamps of the GDR #25
Marx Speaks at the International Workingmen's Association -- Stamps of the GDR #25 The twenty-fifth in our new The Left Chapter series...
Michael Laxer
- May 9
- 7 min
Moscow -- Hero City of the USSR
"Your Name is Unknown, Your Feat is Immortal" -- Image from the Battle of Moscow From a folder of historic cards published in 1985 on the...
Michael Laxer
- May 9
- 5 min
Honouring the Great Anti-fascist Victory of the Peoples, May 9 1945
With statements from the Communist parties of Greece and Turkey as well as the Workers' Party of Ireland Soviet postcard graphic...
Michael Laxer
- May 7
- 5 min
April Conference of the Bolsheviks begins May 7, 1917
Lenin at the April Conference of the RSDLP (b), painting Pyotr Dmitrievich Buchkin (1886-1965), USSR The tremendously important April...
Michael Laxer
- May 5
- 1 min
Karl Marx -- Stamps of the GDR #24
Karl Marx -- Stamps of the GDR #24 A three panel stamp from the German Democratic Republic celebrating the 150th anniversary of Karl...
Michael Laxer
- May 5
- 1 min
Marx and Engels
Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, Sketch, L. V. Kozlov, USSR 1973 Karl Marx was born May 5, 1818. From a Soviet postcard blurb about Marx &...
Michael Laxer
- May 4
- 1 min
Proletarians of All Lands Unite! -- Stamps of the GDR #23
Proletarians of All Lands Unite! -- Stamps of the GDR #23 The twenty-second in our new The Left Chapter series looking at over 70 stamps...
Michael Laxer
- May 2
- 1 min
Communist Manifesto - Stamps of the GDR #22
Communist Manifesto - Stamps of the GDR #22 A stamp honouring the Communist Manifesto featuring Marx & Engels. The twenty-second in our...
Michael Laxer
- May 1
- 1 min
Rosa Luxemburg, Leader of the German Workers -- Stamps of the GDR #21
Rosa Luxemburg, Leader of the German Workers -- Stamps of the GDR #21 Stamp in honour of the great Marxist thinker and revolutionary,...
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