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Daily LIFT #619
Soviet artist Pyotr Vasilyev at work in his Moscow studio, 1947 -- Daily LIFT #619 Vasilyev (1899 – 1975) was a famed Soviet artist known...
Michael Laxer
Jan 7, 20221 min read


Daily LIFT #618
Lenin on a Speaker's Platform, Alexandr Gerasimov (1881-1963), USSR 1930 Also know as Lenin on a Tribune, this painting by Gerasimov was...
Michael Laxer
Jan 6, 20221 min read


Daily LIFT #608
1941, painting Viktor Ni (1934-1979), USSR 1969 -- Daily LIFT #608 Haunting artistic evocation of the start of the Great Patriotic War in...
Michael Laxer
Dec 23, 20211 min read


Daily LIFT #603
Lenin Explains the Tasks Ahead of the Young Soviet State at Revolutionary Headquarters, USSR 1958 -- Daily LIFT #603
Michael Laxer
Dec 17, 20211 min read


Artistic views of the October Revolution
The Revolution Has Been Carried Out by Boris Ioganson "Boris loganson in his The Revolution Has Been Carried Out painted Lenin announcing...
Michael Laxer
Dec 17, 20212 min read


Daily LIFT #602
Proletarians of All Countries Unite! Communist and Workers’ Parties Will Develop International Cooperation and Solidarity On the...
Michael Laxer
Dec 16, 20211 min read


Daily LIFT #592
Young Swimmers, Yuri Raksha 1979, USSR -- Daily LIFT #592 Born December 2, 1937, Soviet artist Yuri Raksha's remarkable career in art and...
Michael Laxer
Dec 2, 20211 min read


Daily LIFT #589
Soviet Industry, sketch, Hugo Gellert, USA 1941 -- Daily LIFT #589 A sketch released by Hugo Gellert when the Soviet Union was invaded in...
Michael Laxer
Nov 27, 20211 min read


Red Courtyards: 3 folk woodcuts from the People's Republic of China, 1960
The woodcuts from the Second Workers' Sparetime Fine Art Exhibition were published November 15, 1960. Overhead Cable Lines for Transport...
Michael Laxer
Nov 15, 20211 min read


Daily LIFT #567
Strike Talk, sketch, Selma Freeman USA 1935 -- Daily LIFT #567
Michael Laxer
Oct 31, 20211 min read


Daily LIFT #542
Building New Industries, montage, Victor Tyrtyshnikov USSR 1963 -- Daily LIFT #542
Michael Laxer
Sep 23, 20211 min read


Daily LIFT #500
Hammer and Sickle, Dmitry Petrov USSR 1982 -- Daily LIFT #500
Michael Laxer
Jul 24, 20211 min read


Daily LIFT #468
Peace. Labour. May., Soviet May Day poster, 1976 -- Daily LIFT #468
Michael Laxer
Jun 1, 20211 min read


Daily LIFT #465
People and Land, painting USSR 1984, Soviet Belarusian artist Mai Dantsig 1930-2017
Michael Laxer
May 27, 20211 min read


Daily LIFT #456
Long Live Marxism-Leninism -- Soviet Poster c. 1975 -- Daily LIFT #456
Michael Laxer
May 13, 20211 min read


Daily LIFT #454
Maxim Gorky Speaks at the First All-Union Congress of Soviet Writers, painting Mikhail Arkadievich Suzdaltsev, 1955 USSR -- Daily LIFT...
Michael Laxer
May 10, 20211 min read


Landscapes of the North -- a folder of 12 Soviet paintings 1966
Published in the USSR in 1966 this folder of art cards had a dozen reproductions of paintings for the early 1960s that depict the spare...
Michael Laxer
Apr 3, 20211 min read


Daily LIFT #407
Internationalism, Peace & Justice! -- Daily LIFT #407 International Women's Day Poster Lithuanian SSR, c. 1985
Michael Laxer
Mar 8, 20211 min read


Daily LIFT #393
Our locomotive goes forward!, Revold Baryshnikov USSR 1972 -- Daily LIFT #393 Baryshnikov (1924-1985) was born in Kharkov and had just...
Michael Laxer
Feb 18, 20211 min read


Daily LIFT #379
Marching into the mountains under the banner of the Communist Party to wage an armed struggle against the landlord's tyranny, sculpture,...
Michael Laxer
Jan 24, 20211 min read
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