Keeping His Youth, Gouache, Li Ping-kang, People's Republic of China c. 1975 -- Daily LIFT #1811 From the PRC Press:  In "Keeping His Youth", gouache, during a break in field work a grey-haired commander explains quotations from Marx, Engels and Lenin on the dictatorship of the proletariat to a group of young people with education who have gone to work on a farm. He typifies veteran revolutionaries who are helping to bring up a new generation to carry on the revolution.

A meeting of the Petrograd Military Revolutionary Committee, painting, B. Yohanson, USSR -- Daily LIFT #1780

Fragment from the painting Soldiers, Adolf Konstantinopolsky, USSR 1960 -- Daily LIFT #1756 Konstantinopolsky, a Ukrainian artist, fought...

Chairman Mao goes to Anyuan, oil painting, People's Republic of China, 1968 -- Daily LIFT #1745 From the PRC press: "In autumn of 1921,...

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View of the Kremlin, watercolour, USSR Nikolay Volkov (1897-1974) -- Daily LIFT #1723

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