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Buses and trams of the Soviet Union: A look at public transit in the USSR, 1976
In October, 1976 the French magazine La vie du rail -- a magazine for railway and transit enthusiasts -- published a fascinating look at...
Michael Laxer
Aug 11, 20239 min read
Work
Red Flag Emulation Drive, painting Su Chien, People's Republic of China, 1951 Work One day, two days, three days, one year, two years.......
Michael Laxer
Aug 7, 20231 min read
The Yakut Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic
A brief look. Revolutionary Committee of the Yakutian Soviet, 1921 From the Great Soviet Encyclopedia 1979: Yakut Autonomous Soviet...
Michael Laxer
Aug 7, 20235 min read
Serfdom abolished in France, August 4, 1789
On August 4th, 1789 -- less than a month after the storming of the Bastille -- the revolutionary National Constituent Assembly formally...
Michael Laxer
Aug 4, 20231 min read
Battle of Kursk remembered, July 1983
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...
Michael Laxer
Jul 30, 202315 min read
The Revolution in Moscow, 1917
Storming of the Kremlin in 1917, painting K. Yuon From the USSR in 1957 -- 40 years after the world changing events of 1917 -- some...
Michael Laxer
Jul 27, 20232 min read
Svetlana Savitskaya, Soviet Cosmonaut, first woman to perform a spacewalk July 25, 1984
Svetlana Savitskaya, Soviet cosmonaut (born August 8, 1948). After an award winning career in aerobatics Savitskaya was the the second...
Michael Laxer
Jul 25, 20231 min read
B.B. King in the USSR, 1979
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...
Michael Laxer
Jul 25, 20232 min read
"What it was like": Taking the Winter Palace
Revolutionaries who were involved in the taking of the Winter Palace assemble again outside it 40 years later in 1957 From an account of...
Michael Laxer
Jul 24, 20231 min read
Revolutionary New Year art of the People's Republic of China, 1952
Celebrating the 30th Anniversary of the Chinese Communist Party - Hou Yi-min & Teng Shu At the beginning of 1952 this collection of art...
Michael Laxer
Jul 16, 20231 min read
Odessa: Hero City of the USSR
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...
Michael Laxer
Jul 15, 20232 min read
W.E.B. Du Bois in the People's Republic of China, 1959
Premier Zhou Enlai with Du Bois and his wife the writer Shirley Graham (third from left). First and second from right are Vice-Premier...
Michael Laxer
Jul 11, 20234 min read
First Soviet constitution adopted July 10, 1918
The first socialist constitution in human history created by and for the working class was adopted for the newly formed Russian Soviet...
Michael Laxer
Jul 10, 20233 min read
The Internationale: Hymn of millions
From the Soviet press, 1982: Today the "Internationale", the hymn of workers all over the world, is sung in 90 different languages. The...
Michael Laxer
Jul 8, 20233 min read
Mao and Latin American party leaders, 1959
Remarkable photo shows Mao, Chairman of the Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party, meeting the leaders of the fraternal...
Michael Laxer
Jul 7, 20232 min read
On Coalition Government - Mao Yan'an, 1945
1974 photograph of the meeting hall where the 7th National Congress of the Communist Party of China was held between April and June,...
Michael Laxer
Jul 4, 20236 min read
Day of the Stamp, 1959 -- Stamps of the GDR #37
Day of the Stamp, 1959 -- Stamps of the GDR #37 A GDR stamp for the Day of the Stamp. The image is of a "modern" postal worker on a...
Michael Laxer
Jul 4, 20231 min read
Minsk: Hero City of the USSR
Mound of Glory war memorial just outside Minsk From a folder of historic cards published in 1985 on the 40th anniversary of the victory...
Michael Laxer
Jul 3, 20232 min read
The Long March to Liberation: The Communist Party of China 1921-1951
Today, in honour of the 102nd anniversary of the formation of the Communist Party of China, we share this early history of the party from...
Michael Laxer
Jul 1, 20237 min read
Tribunes of the Revolution: Mikhail Frunze -- Civil War General
From the June 1976 issue of Soviet Life magazine we republish this look at the life of the great early Soviet military and revolutionary...
Michael Laxer
Jun 30, 202310 min read
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