50 years ago today Fidel Castro began his historic 23 day visit to Chile and President Allende. On November 10, 1971, Fidel Castro landed...

1960 was arguably the beginning of a "Golden Age" in the history of the USSR as it launched into an era of rapid development socially,...

This packet of 13 postcards of Gomel was released in 1976 just a few years after the city celebrated its 730th anniversary. Gomel, in the...

A reminder of how the world was saved from fascism by the Soviet Union and its peoples. In 1977 this powerful monument was erected...

An account of Lenin and Krupskaya in exile in Paris (1910-1911) by fellow Bolshevik exile Serafima Hopner. A Soviet stamp showing one of...

Comrades Thomas Sankara and Fidel Castro. Castro is Awarding Sankara the Order of Jose Marti, 1984 The great revolutionary leader Thomas...

Uncovered in 1969, these snapshots show a chess game between Lenin and Alexander Bogdanov at Maxim Gorky's villa on the Italian island of...

Gagarin and Valentina Tereshkova (the first woman in space) sign autographs and chat with young people at a youth forum, 1964 As we all...

Konstantin Feoktistov in the Voskhod spaceship. Konstantin Feoktistov was a Soviet space engineer and cosmonaut who had a truly...

In the midst of an election campaign in which the party is running 26 candidates on an avowedly socialist and anti-capitalist platform,...

Eugene V. Debs addresses a crowd, 1910 -- Daily LIFT #532 The burning question of the hour is that of unity and by this I mean the unity...

Today is the anniversary of the speech Fidel Castro gave before a crowd of one million people announcing the First Declaration of Havana...

In 1960 the Soviet Union provided a clear example of how to respond to a major public health threat. Do it quickly and effectively. This...

An in-depth look at the Soviet Artek Pioneer youth camp, a sprawling internationalist complex of ten sub-camps and various facilities...

Karl Liebknecht Memorial Portrait for the Cover of the Liberator Magazine, March, 1919 "Lay down your weapons, you soldiers at the front....

Today, the Latin American peoples are showing by their struggle that the American continent is not a preserve of the U.S.A. Latin America...

Published in 1976 this folder of 12 images of Vitebsk in the Byelorussian SSR was aimed at domestic audience and was printed entirely in...

An ad for the Soviet Moskvitch 412 from July 1969. The 412 was produced from 1967-1975 in a factory in Moscow. It was a family sedan that...

Independence "must go hand-in-hand with socialism. National liberation must be coupled with class liberation, social liberation, and...

An Soviet account of the incredible bravery of the Red Army garrison in the opening days of the Nazi invasion. The Courage Monument in...