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The Civil War, 1928
Images of Lenin #57 The Civil War, Vladimir Favorsky, engraving on wood, USSR 1928 -- Images of Lenin #57 Vladimir Favorsky (1886-1964)...
Michael Laxer
May 23, 20221 min read
October, 1917
Images of Lenin #56 October 1917, Vladimir Favorsky, engraving on wood, USSR 1928 -- Images of Lenin #56 Vladimir Favorsky (1886-1964)...
Michael Laxer
May 22, 20221 min read
Harvey Milk b. May 22, 1930
"I know that you can’t live on hope alone, but without it, life is not worth living. And you, and you, and you, and you have got to give...
Michael Laxer
May 22, 20221 min read
Lenin and the Red Guards, 1967
Images of Lenin #55 Lenin and the Red Guards, D. Bisti, USSR 1967 -- Images of Lenin #55 This is the fifty-fifth in our daily feature...
Michael Laxer
May 21, 20221 min read
12 works by Soviet artist Aleksandr Deineka, b. May 20, 1899
One of the Soviet Union's greatest socialist realist artists, Aleksandr Deineka (sometimes translated as Deyneka) was born in Kursk, May...
Michael Laxer
May 20, 20224 min read
Toussaint Louverture, Haitian Revolutionary Leader and Hero Born May 20, 1743
Toussaint Louverture, Haitian Revolutionary Leader and Hero, Born May 20, 1743 "Toussaint Louverture was the finest product of that...
Michael Laxer
May 20, 20221 min read
Lenin Working Underground, E. Kibrik, USSR 1947
Images of Lenin #54 V. I. Lenin Working Underground, drawing, Evgenii Kibrik, USSR 1947 -- Images of Lenin #54 From the Great Soviet...
Michael Laxer
May 19, 20222 min read
V. I. Lenin autographed sketch, I. Brodsky, 1920
Images of Lenin #53 V. I. Lenin sketch, I. Brodsky, 1920. The sketch was autographed by Lenin -- Images of Lenin #53 Isaak Brodsky, was...
Michael Laxer
May 18, 20221 min read
V. I. Lenin, N. Zhukov 1973
Images of Lenin #52 V. I. Lenin. page from an album, USSR 1973 -- Images of Lenin #52 From the Great Soviet Encyclopedia, 1979: Nikolai...
Michael Laxer
May 17, 20222 min read
V. I. Lenin, P. Balkansky, Bulgaria 1967
Images of Lenin #51 V. I. Lenin, P. Balkansky, Bulgaria 1967 -- Images of Lenin #51 This is the fifty-first in our daily feature that...
Michael Laxer
May 16, 20221 min read
Lenin in conversation with H. G. Wells, October 1920
Image of Lenin #50 Lenin and H. G. Wells in conversation, Moscow, October 1920 -- Images of Lenin #50 This is the fiftieth in our daily...
Michael Laxer
May 15, 20221 min read
V. I. Lenin, K. Tomita, Japan 1972
Images of Lenin #49 V. I. Lenin, K. Tomita, Japan 1972 -- Images of Lenin #49 This is the forty-ninth in our new daily feature that will...
Michael Laxer
May 13, 20221 min read
Lenin in Stockholm, 1917
Images of Lenin #48 Lenin in Stockholm with a group of Russian political emigres returning from Switzerland to Russia in 1917 -- Images...
Michael Laxer
May 12, 20223 min read
V. I. Lenin, B. Franke, GDR 1970
Images of Lenin #47 V. I. Lenin, painting B. Franke, German Democratic Republic 1970 -- Images of Lenin #47 This is the forty-seventh in...
Michael Laxer
May 10, 20221 min read
The terrible price of victory: A brief look at the sacrifices of the USSR in WWII
Today on May 9 -- Victory Day in the former USSR as it was on this day in 1945 that the Soviets formally accepted the German surrender --...
Michael Laxer
May 9, 20227 min read
V. I. Lenin, M. F. Husain 1970
Images of Lenin #46 V. I. Lenin, M. F. Husain, India 1970 -- Images of Lenin #46 This is the forty-sixth in our new daily feature that...
Michael Laxer
May 8, 20221 min read
Lenin speaks at the 2nd Congress of the Comintern, July 1920
Images of Lenin #45 Lenin speaking at a sitting of the 2nd Congress of the Comintern in Uritsky Palace, July 19, 1920, Petrograd. --...
Michael Laxer
May 7, 20222 min read
V. I. Lenin sketch 1921
Images of Lenin #44 V. I. Lenin sketch, I. Parkhomenko, 1921 -- Images of Lenin #44 This is the forty-fourth in our new daily feature...
Michael Laxer
May 6, 20221 min read
Lenin in Sverdlov Square, May 5 1920
Images of Lenin #43 V. I. Lenin addressing men of the Red Army leaving for the Polish Front, Sverdlov Square, Moscow May 5, 1920 --...
Michael Laxer
May 5, 20221 min read
Lenin taking a stroll, August 1922
Images of Lenin #42 Lenin taking a stroll in Gorki, August 1922 -- Images of Lenin #42 This is the forty-second in our new daily feature...
Michael Laxer
May 4, 20221 min read
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