Images of Lenin #1 V.I. Lenin: The Leader of the Proletariat -- P. Shillingovsky (1881-1942), etching USSR 1928 Shillingovsky was one of...

Lenin on new form of democratic organization. Lenin recording one of his three- minute series of speeches in the Kremlin, March 1919....

Over the course of February we shared daily photos of Che Guevara, iconic revolutionary leader and hero. These came from a Soviet archive...

. Yuri Gagarin, his wife Valentina Ivanovna and Nikita Khrushchev during a parade after his triumphant flight. In honour of the birth...

In March, 1976 Soviet Life magazine published this look at six artworks from Soviet artists of the period 1956-1970. While they have...

This postcard packet was produced in the USSR in 1973 and featured views of cities, attractions, natural settings, etc. of the western...

"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...

Lenin's City is the Most Literate City in the World, Soviet Literacy Poster 1931 Soviet poster noting the great strides in Soviet...

We in Ghana, are committed to the building of an industrialised socialist society. - Kwame Nkrumah On February 24, 1966 a violent...

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...

Three members of the Chinese Communist forces -- including one who had lost an arm in battle -- learning to use captured Japanese machine...

In October, 1946 Chinese railway workers in Harbin, China -- which had been newly liberated by the People's Liberation Army -- used scrap...

Feng Jing of China at the Southern Pole of Inaccessibility (POI) January 25, 2020 -- Image via Twitter In an amazing story that got far...

On February 6th, 1919 the Seattle General Strike Began While the Seattle General Strike ended after only 5 days it remains a pivotal...

The two remarkable documents republished here are from the first anniversary of the February 2, 1943 victory. A street in Stalingrad just...

Roza Shanina, born 3 April 1924, grew up in a large working class family in a small town outside of Arkhangelsk. Her parents had named...

On January 26, 1943 Soviet forces captured the heights of Mamayev Kurgan in the city of Stalingrad from the Nazis ending 135 days of...

A mural of Gramsci by Italian artist Jorit on a council housing block in Florence, 2020 "The revolution is not a dramatic act, it is a...

As we have noted before, the 1960s was arguably the beginning of a "Golden Age" in the history of the USSR as it launched into an era of...

The Party of Labour of Austria looks back at the catastrophe that was the collapse of the USSR and Socialist Bloc in this exceptional...