A young woman is admitted into the Komsomol in Norilsk, USSR 1960s - Vsevolod Tarasevich, CC BY 4.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses...

On September 18, 1980 after extensive training in the Soviet Union as part of the Soviet internationalist Interkosmos program, Arnaldo...

Paulo Raimundo, General Secretary of the PCP at the event -- image via the PCP September 12 marked the 100th anniversary of the birth of...

You can learn a lot about humanity from the first technological revolutions of more than 10,000 years ago. By Brenna R. Hassett, Human...

An artistic representation of Mao at the head of the uprising. Mao Zedong led a peasant and military insurrection that began on September...

Human technologies have continued to evolve exponentially since the end of the Paleolithic: today we are using them to learn more about...

Opening ceremonies of the Second Spartakiad of the Peoples of the USSR, Moscow, August 1959. The Spartakiad was a festival of amateur,...

From a poster series of the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution: Xiang Xiuli was born in 1933 into a poor working-class family in...

Stamp for the XXVI congress of the CPSU, 1981, From the Soviet Press in 1981, a brief look at the Communist Party of the Soviet Union...

Between September 1 and September 7, 1920, The Congress of the Peoples of the East called by the Communist International (Comintern) was...

From a folder of historic cards published in 1985 on the 40th anniversary of the victory of the USSR in the Great Patriotic War we...

The great revolutionary and freedom fighter, Fred Hampton, was born August 30, 1948. A leader of the Black Panthers he was murdered by...

From a postcard packet published in the USSR in 1971, here we are sharing 21 panoramic images of the Soviet capital, some with our text...

Through the 70s and into the 80s amateur homemade car rallies were held in the USSR in which ordinary citizens built their own vehicles...

A look at the life, times and thinking of the great Bolshevik revolutionary Felix Dzerzhinsky from a 1967 issue of Soviet Life magazine:...

When talking about the Union of Writers and Artists of Cuba on the anniversary of its formation, tribute must be paid to the beautiful...

The Engels statue in Manchester -- travelmag.com , CC BY 2.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0>, via Wikimedia Commons An...

Rioters during the attacks in Peekskill By Nina Silber, Professor of History, Boston University Few Americans today know about the events...

Ernst Thälmann, leader of the Communist Party of Germany (KPD), addresses a mass rally in Berlin, May, 1931 The working class stalwart,...

Ruth First was born in 1925 to parents Julius First and Matilda Levetan who emigrated to South Africa from Latvia in 1906 and became...