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Red Army Victory! -- Stamps of the Red Army #7
Image from a Soviet stamp Issued in 1968 in honour of the 50th anniversary of the Red Army. It shows a famous scene from the Victory...
Michael Laxer
Mar 29, 20241 min read
Maxim Gorky b. March 28, 1868
Gorky and Lenin in conversation, sketch USSR 1947 The great Maxim Gorky was born March 28, 1868. According to USSR Magazine in March,...
Michael Laxer
Mar 28, 202412 min read
Sergei Kirov b. March 27, 1886
Kirov speaking at the tribune of XVII congress of the CPSU, painting Pyotr Belousov (1912-1989) The great revolutionary and Bolshevik...
Michael Laxer
Mar 27, 20245 min read
Hold High the Flag of Socialism - Communism: The Red Flag of Lenin
From the Communist Party of Greece (KKE): The political, trade union, ideological and cultural action of the KKE continues unabated. The...
Michael Laxer
Mar 25, 20248 min read
She dedicated herself to the Revolution: The story of Jeanne-Marie Labourbe
A look at the courageous life and terrible execution of French Bolshevik revolutionary Jeanne-Marie Labourbe (1877-1919) who worked among...
Michael Laxer
Mar 24, 202410 min read
The Bashkir Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic was established on March 23, 1919
Flag The Bashkir Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic was established on March 23, 1919. According to a 1964 Soviet magazine post in...
Michael Laxer
Mar 23, 202411 min read
To the Veterans of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade
To the Veterans of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade Say of them They knew no Spanish At first, and nothing of the arts of war At first: how to...
Michael Laxer
Mar 20, 20241 min read
The Paris Commune: The first proletarian revolutionary political power in the history of humanity
From China Pictorial Magazine, March 1971, a short, edited illustrated look at the Paris Commune at its centenary: On March 18,1871 the...
Michael Laxer
Mar 18, 20244 min read
Frederick Engels’ Speech at the Grave of Karl Marx, Highgate Cemetery, London March 17, 1883
Frederick Engels’ Speech at the Grave of Karl Marx, Highgate Cemetery, London March 17, 1883: On the 14th of March, at a quarter to three...
Michael Laxer
Mar 17, 20243 min read
To the West! -- Stamps of the Red Army #6
Image from a Soviet stamp Issued in 1968 in honour of the 50th anniversary of the Red Army. It shows the famous 1943 'To the West' war...
Michael Laxer
Mar 13, 20241 min read
Oryol -- City of the First Fireworks
Red Army troops advance during the battle From a folder of historic cards published in 1985 on the 40th anniversary of the victory of the...
Michael Laxer
Mar 12, 20243 min read
Debt Forgiveness in the Bronze Age
Whether in the realms of trade or agriculture, the operative principle was that debtors should not lose their economic liberty by being...
Michael Laxer
Mar 11, 20248 min read
The Great Archaeological Discovery of Our Time
An interview with renowned archaeologist Gary M. Feinman on the emergence of a global data set from our past that humanity can use to...
Michael Laxer
Mar 9, 20247 min read
Sakhalin and the Kuril Islands -- A Trip to the Soviet Far East, 1973
At the end of the Second World War with the defeat of Japan the Soviet Union took full control of Sakhalin Island (which is the largest...
Michael Laxer
Mar 7, 20242 min read
Discarding Old Theories on the Path to Finding the First Humans Outside Africa
Spectacular archeological finds reveal the true past of the first Europeans. Atapuerca, Gran Dolina excavation -- Malopez 21, CC BY-SA...
Michael Laxer
Mar 6, 20246 min read
Red Army Liberator -- Stamps of the Red Army #5
Image from a Soviet stamp Issued in 1968 in honour of the 50th anniversary of the Red Army. It shows a part of the classic Red Army...
Michael Laxer
Mar 4, 20241 min read
The Adaptive Value of Teenagers: How Peer Learning Contributes to Primate Success
By Brenna R. Hassett Anthropological science is our species’ attempt to address our most fundamental questions about who we are and how...
Michael Laxer
Mar 2, 20244 min read
Bird Falls -- A Soviet War Poem
Bird Falls Though in the morning clouds of smoke still curl Above the blown-up ruins of our home, And caught by deadly cannonfire, a bird...
Michael Laxer
Feb 28, 20241 min read
Lenin: A Worker of Miracles - Moissaye J. Olgin
V. I. Lenin makes a speech at the funeral of Sverdlov. Moscow, March 1919 Surrounded by the ancient walls of the Kremlin, where the...
Michael Laxer
Feb 27, 20244 min read
'Did You Volunteer', the Young Red Army marches -- Stamps of the Red Army #4
Image from a Soviet stamp Issued in 1968 in honour of the 50th anniversary of the Red Army. It shows the classic Red Revolutionary Civil...
Michael Laxer
Feb 26, 20241 min read
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