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Under Lenin's Banner
Under Lenin's Banner, V. Noskov USSR, 1960s -- Images of Lenin #10 Vladimir Alexandrovich Noskov (1926-2007) was a member of the USSR...
Michael Laxer
Mar 26, 20221 min read


Lenin Centennial Poster, Communist Party of Uruguay
Lenin Centennial Poster, Communist Party of Uruguay, 1970 -- Images of Lenin #9 This is the ninth in our new daily feature that will be...
Michael Laxer
Mar 25, 20221 min read


Lenin playing chess with Bogdanov at Gorky's house in Capri, Italy 1908
Images of Lenin #8 Lenin playing chess with Bogdanov at Gorky's house in Capri, Italy 1908 -- Images of Lenin #8 As we noted before on...
Michael Laxer
Mar 24, 20221 min read


V. I. Lenin
Images of Lenin #7 V.I. Lenin, painting, G. Flores, Mexico 1970 -- Images of Lenin #7 This is the seventh in our new daily feature that...
Michael Laxer
Mar 23, 20221 min read


Lenin Centennial Poster, Italian Communist Party 1970
Images of Lenin #6 Lenin Centennial Poster, Italian Communist Party 1970 -- Images of Lenin #6 This is the sixth in our new feature that...
Michael Laxer
Mar 22, 20221 min read


V. I. Lenin
Images of Lenin #4 V.I. Lenin -- Siddigai, India 1970 -- Images of Lenin #4 This is the fourth in our new feature that will daily be...
Michael Laxer
Mar 20, 20221 min read


Lenin Centennial Poster, DPRK 1970
Images of Lenin #3 Lenin Centennial Poster, Democratic People's Republic of Korea, 1970 -- Images of Lenin #3 This is the third in our...
Michael Laxer
Mar 19, 20221 min read


Lenin speaks at the funeral of Yakov Sverdlov, March 18 1919
Lenin speaks at the funeral of Yakov Sverdlov, Moscow, March 18 1919 -- Daily LIFT #676 Sverdlov was chairman of the All-Russian Central...
Michael Laxer
Mar 18, 20224 min read


Lenin in the presidium of the First Congress of the Third International
Images of Lenin #2 V.I. Lenin in the presidium of the First Congress of the Third International, Moscow, March 1919 "The Paris Commune --...
Michael Laxer
Mar 18, 20221 min read


V.I. Lenin: The Leader of the Proletariat
Images of Lenin #1 V.I. Lenin: The Leader of the Proletariat -- P. Shillingovsky (1881-1942), etching USSR 1928 Shillingovsky was one of...
Michael Laxer
Mar 17, 20221 min read


What is Soviet power? -- Lenin, March 1919
Lenin on new form of democratic organization. Lenin recording one of his three- minute series of speeches in the Kremlin, March 1919....
Michael Laxer
Mar 12, 20222 min read


Che Guevara: 32 images from 1940-1967
Over the course of February we shared daily photos of Che Guevara, iconic revolutionary leader and hero. These came from a Soviet archive...
Michael Laxer
Mar 10, 20226 min read


Yuri Gagarin in his own words
. Yuri Gagarin, his wife Valentina Ivanovna and Nikita Khrushchev during a parade after his triumphant flight. In honour of the birth...
Michael Laxer
Mar 9, 20225 min read


Six pieces of contemporary Soviet art, 1956-1970
In March, 1976 Soviet Life magazine published this look at six artworks from Soviet artists of the period 1956-1970. While they have...
Michael Laxer
Mar 8, 20223 min read


Visiting the Carpathian Mountains region of Soviet Ukraine, 1973
This postcard packet was produced in the USSR in 1973 and featured views of cities, attractions, natural settings, etc. of the western...
Michael Laxer
Mar 5, 20221 min read


Nadezhda Krupskaya, b. February 26, 1869
"I am very happy that I experienced the revolution. I love the work I am doing. I had a wonderful personal life. If I were to begin life...
Michael Laxer
Feb 26, 20225 min read


Lenin's City is the Most Literate City in the World!
Lenin's City is the Most Literate City in the World, Soviet Literacy Poster 1931 Soviet poster noting the great strides in Soviet...
Michael Laxer
Feb 25, 20221 min read


Socialist Nkrumah Government of Ghana Overthrown, February 24, 1966
We in Ghana, are committed to the building of an industrialised socialist society. - Kwame Nkrumah On February 24, 1966 a violent...
Michael Laxer
Feb 24, 20221 min read


Red Army Day, 1944
Crossing the Dnieper - Woodcut, V. I. Masyk February 23 was Red Army Day in the former USSR. It celebrated the formation of the Red Army...
Michael Laxer
Feb 23, 20228 min read


The Communist fight to liberate China, 1945
Three members of the Chinese Communist forces -- including one who had lost an arm in battle -- learning to use captured Japanese machine...
Michael Laxer
Feb 19, 202210 min read
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