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150th anniversary of the birth of Rosa Luxemburg
Today marks the 150th anniversary of the birth of the great Marxist thinker and revolutionary Rosa Luxemburg "Thus we stand...
Michael Laxer
Mar 5, 20211 min read
Izvestia is issued at the Petrograd Soviet for delivery to troops at the front, 1917
Photos of Revolutionary Russia #44 Izvestia is issued at the Petrograd Soviet for delivery to troops at the front, 1917 -- Photos of...
Michael Laxer
Mar 4, 20211 min read
Let us take the profit, the private economic profit, out of medicine - Dr. Norman Bethune
Dr. Norman Bethune, Communist and public health activist, hero of the Spanish Civil War and Chinese Revolution, born March 4, 1890 in...
Michael Laxer
Mar 4, 20211 min read
Celebration of International Youth Day, Moscow 1929
Photos of Revolutionary Russia #43 Celebration of International Youth Day, Moscow 1929 -- Photos of Revolutionary Russia #43
Michael Laxer
Mar 4, 20211 min read
Soviet Kaluga 1974 -- Images of the city of Tsiolkovsky
Kaluga is a mid-sized city (pop. approximately 300,000) located about 100 miles southwest of Moscow that is best known for being the...
Michael Laxer
Mar 3, 20212 min read
Red Guard at Smolny, October 1917
Photos of Revolutionary Russia #42 Red Guard at Smolny, October 1917 -- Photos of Revolutionary Russia #42 Members of a Red Guard unit...
Michael Laxer
Mar 2, 20211 min read
Lenin speaks on Red Square, May 1, 1919
Photos of Revolutionary Russia #41 Lenin speaks on Red Square, May 1, 1919 -- Photos of Revolutionary Russia #41 Lenin delivers a speech...
Michael Laxer
Mar 1, 20211 min read
The first tractor arrives in the Red Rifleman Commune, Smolensk region, 1929
Photos of Revolutionary Russia #40 The first tractor arrives in the Red Rifleman Commune, Smolensk region, 1929 -- Photos of...
Michael Laxer
Feb 27, 20211 min read
"We are for the collective farm!"
Photos of Revolutionary Russia #39 "We are for the collective farm!" -- Photos of Revolutionary Russia #39 The farmers of the village of...
Michael Laxer
Feb 27, 20211 min read
Vladimir Mayakovsky, Red Square, May Day 1928
Photos of Revolutionary Russia #38 Vladimir Mayakovsky, Red Square, May Day 1928 -- Photos of Revolutionary Russia #38 On snow-covered...
Michael Laxer
Feb 26, 20211 min read
First meeting of the women workers organizing committee of the Tverskoy District RCP(b)
Photos of Revolutionary Russia #37 First meeting of the women workers organizing committee of the Tverskoy District RCP(b) -- Photos of...
Michael Laxer
Feb 24, 20211 min read
Gorky and plant director I. A. Likhachev outside the Moscow Automotive Plant, 1928
Photos of Revolutionary Russia #36 Gorky and plant director I. A. Likhachev outside the Moscow Automotive Plant, 1928 -- Photos of...
Michael Laxer
Feb 23, 20211 min read
"Capitalism cannot reform itself; it is doomed to self-destruction" - WEB Du Bois b. Feb. 23, 1868
Cover of a Soviet book published in 1971 dedicated to life and writings of W.E.B. Du Bois. In the Letter of an American Communist -- the...
Michael Laxer
Feb 23, 20211 min read
In Memory of James Laxer, 22 December 1941 – 23 February 2018
On the anniversary of the death of James Laxer we share some remembrances and reflections on his remarkable life and legacy in Canadian...
Michael Laxer
Feb 23, 20212 min read
Grand opening of the Shaturskaya power plant, 1925
Photos of Revolutionary Russia #35 Grand opening ceremony for the Shaturskaya power plant -- Photos of Revolutionary Russia #35 The...
Michael Laxer
Feb 21, 20211 min read
Truth is on the side of the oppressed
Time is on the side of the oppressed today, it's against the oppressor. Truth is on the side of the oppressed today, it's against the...
Michael Laxer
Feb 21, 20211 min read
A spectre is haunting Europe — the spectre of communism.
A spectre is haunting Europe — the spectre of communism. The world changing Manifesto of the Communist Party is widely believed to have...
Michael Laxer
Feb 21, 20211 min read
Campaign to end homelessness for children and youth, USSR 1924
Photos of Revolutionary Russia #34 Campaign to end homelessness for children and youth, USSR 1924 -- Photos of Revolutionary Russia #34...
Michael Laxer
Feb 20, 20211 min read
At the Moscow Agricultural Exhibition, 1923
Photos of Revolutionary Russia #33 At the Moscow Agricultural Exhibition, 1923 -- Photos of Revolutionary Russia #33
Michael Laxer
Feb 19, 20211 min read
Conrado Benítez, Cuban revolutionary hero, b. February 19, 1942
Conrado Benítez, heroic Cuban Literacy Teacher and Cuban Revolutionary born February 19, 1942. 18 year old Conrado Benítez was murdered...
Michael Laxer
Feb 19, 20211 min read
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