Today marks the 60th anniversary of the historic US civil rights March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom. It drew at least 250,000...

W.E.B. Du Bois, the scholar, civil rights activist, historian and communist was born in 1868 in Massachusetts. He died on August 27, 1963...

Miguel Díaz-Canel Bermúdez, First Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Cuba and President of the Republic, was in...

During the Soviet era the capital of the Kirghiz SSR was Frunze. Frunze was known as "The City of Green Leaves" due to the fact that the...

Sacco and Vanzetti Murdered August 23, 1927 Shortly after midnight on August 23, 1927, Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti were murdered...

Today marks the anniversary of the end of the Battle of Kursk (August 23, 1943) where the soldiers of the Red Army emerged victorious at...

All images via Twitter Statement by the Communist Party of Cuba (PCC) on the 98th anniversary of the formation of the first PCC...

From USSR Magazine, August 1968: Every Sunday. despite spring floods or autumn rain winter frost or summer heat. Muscovites of all ages...

Red Army troops in action during the liberation of Sevastopol From a folder of historic cards published in 1985 on the 40th anniversary...

In October, 1976 the French magazine La vie du rail -- a magazine for railway and transit enthusiasts -- published a fascinating look at...

Red Flag Emulation Drive, painting Su Chien, People's Republic of China, 1951 Work One day, two days, three days, one year, two years.......

A brief look. Revolutionary Committee of the Yakutian Soviet, 1921 From the Great Soviet Encyclopedia 1979: Yakut Autonomous Soviet...

On August 4th, 1789 -- less than a month after the storming of the Bastille -- the revolutionary National Constituent Assembly formally...

Marshals of the Soviet Union remember the great triumph of the Red Army in July-August 1943 that ended all Nazi hopes for victory on the...

Storming of the Kremlin in 1917, painting K. Yuon From the USSR in 1957 -- 40 years after the world changing events of 1917 -- some...

Svetlana Savitskaya, Soviet cosmonaut (born August 8, 1948). After an award winning career in aerobatics Savitskaya was the the second...

B.B. King toured the USSR in the spring of 1979 and played to huge and very appreciative crowds in Moscow, Leningrad, Baku, Yerevan, and...

Revolutionaries who were involved in the taking of the Winter Palace assemble again outside it 40 years later in 1957 From an account of...

Celebrating the 30th Anniversary of the Chinese Communist Party - Hou Yi-min & Teng Shu At the beginning of 1952 this collection of art...

From a folder of historic cards published in 1985 on the 40th anniversary of the victory of the USSR in the Great Patriotic War we...