"I might say that communism destroyed itself, that it committed suicide in the USSR, and that it had no reason for committing suicide. It...

On August 20, 1918 Lenin wrote his famous "Letter to American Workers". The Bolshevik Revolution was in a difficult and dangerous...

Cover of the booklet, 1970 Some of the Chairman Mao quotes from the booklet: - The Party organization should be composed of the advanced...

Today we are going to take a look at the Soviet Black Sea resort city of Sochi with photos and information from 1962, 1972 and 1978. With...

Peace poster, USSR c. 1975 I refuse to accept the cynical notion that nation after nation must spiral down a militaristic stairway into...

Lenin shaved and with a wig while evading arrest by the Provisional Government, Razliv Russia, August 11, 1917 Just three days prior to...

In 1958 the Belgian city of Brussels hosted the World's Fair. The USSR had what was by all accounts a spectacular pavilion from the...

Engels poster, People's Republic of China, 1977 August 5, 1895. Friedrich Engels, a founder of scientific communism, friend and comrade...

Rafe Saltman, a founding member of the Vancouver Island-based Freedom From War Coalition, reflects on the terrible human costs of...

Mao marches with PLA soldiers August 1 is PLA Day or Army Day in the People's Republic of China. It celebrates the formation of the...

Triumphant and solemn, the flash of predawn light Has pierced through the gloom of the night Still asleep are the rays of the sun --...

For most of its history the area of the city of Nakhodka was a small set of towns on the Pacific coast of the Russian and then Soviet Far...

Today is the anniversary of the historic attack on the Moncada Barracks in Santiago de Cuba on July 26, 1953 by a band of Cuban rebels...

Today is the anniversary of the birth of Nelson Mandela (July 18, 1918) one of history's greatest freedom fighters and heroes. Mandela,...

Flag of the Japanese Communist Party The Japanese Communist turns 100 today. It was formed on July 15, 1922 in Tokyo. One of its early...

The great American leftist and folk singer Woody Guthrie was born July 14, 1912. His classic This Land Is Your Land was written as a...

Happy Bastille Day! Coming again soon to a country near you.

Stamp honouring the North Ossetian ASSR, USSR 1960 On July 7, 1924. The North Ossetian Republic was founded in the USSR. In 1936 it...

Kahlo in 1933 Self-portrait Frida Kahlo's plaster body cast, self-painted 1950 Kahlo had to wear body casts after a horrific bus accident...

Red Army troops in central Minsk after the liberation of the city In early July, 1944 Red Army forces were driving forward into large...