Vladimir Mayakovsky before a wall of satirical posters he drew -- Daily LIFT #1828 From the Soviet Press 1947: On April 14 the Soviet people commemorated the 17th anniversary of the death of Vladimir Mayakovsky, great revolutionary poet. During the years of civil war following the Revolution, Mayakovsky, an ardent patriot, poured much energy into writing verses for satirical posters which he himself drew (some samples of which are shown in the background of the photograph abo

On the floor at the Changchun No. 1 Automobile Plant, People's Republic of China 1969 -- Daily LIFT #1827

Primary school student entertains People's Liberation Army frontier guards during a discussion of Marxist-Leninist-Mao Zedong thought, People's Republic of China, 1969 -- Daily LIFT #1826

Main stage at the First Congress of the Communist Party of Cuba (PCC), which began on December 17, 1975 -- Daily LIFT #1825 Learn more about the Congress at: 50 years of revolutionary work: Honouring the anniversary of the First Congress of the Communist Party of Cuba

Che Guevara photographic composition, artist unknown, date unknown, found in a Toronto thrift shop -- Daily LIFT #1824

Drawing, P. Bendel, USSR c. 1985 -- Daily LIFT #1823

Chairman Mao at the celebrations for the 20th anniversary of the formation of the People's Republic of China, October 1, 1969 -- Daily LIFT #1822 "Once China's destiny is in the hands of the people, China, like the sun rising in the east, will illuminate every corner of the land with a brilliant flame, swiftly clean up the mire left by the reactionary government, heal the wounds of war and build a new, powerful and prosperous people's republic worthy of the name." -- Mao just

A Red Army health and sanitation worker distributes chocolate received from public organizations in Argentina as a gift for the 24th anniversary of the Red Army. The soldiers were part of a tank landing party on the western front in the USSR, February, 1942 -- Daily LIFT #1821

Zhou Enlai speaks at a reception for the 20th anniversary of the founding of the People's Republic of China, 1969 -- Daily LIFT #1820

Passenger train crosses the lower deck of the Nanking Yangtze River Bridge, People's Republic of China, 1969 -- Daily LIFT #1819

Soviet Red Army Field nurse Valentina Kalugina provides first aid to a wounded machine gunner during the battles in the Orel-Kursk sector, 1943 -- Daily LIFT #1818 Under fire Kalugina carried 45 wounded men with their equipment from the battlefield over the course of these battles.

Red Army packer Maria Ivanova Petrova putting medical supplies and instruments into a parachute bag to be dropped from a plane for wounded guerrilla fighters and soldiers of Red Army units operating behind enemy lines during the Great Patriotic War, 1942 -- Daily LIFT #1817

Lenin in conversation with local peasants, illustration, P. Vassiliev, USSR c. 1948 -- Daily LIFT #1816

Subway trainee students at the Moscow Railway School No. 1, USSR 1947 -- Daily LIFT #1815

Karl Marx portrait at the Nanjie Commune in the People's Republic of China, 2011, Gary Lee Todd, Ph.D., CC0, via Wikimedia Commons -- Daily LIFT #1814

New Doctors tor Borderland Villages (Papercut), Yuan Kuo-ping, People's Republic of China, 1976 From the PRC Press: "New Doctors for Borderland Villages", a uniquely decorative papercut, shows a woman army medical worker teaching barefoot doctors of minority nationalities the use of medicinal herbs.

Maurice Thorez, legendary General Secretary of the French Communist Party, talks with delegates from Siberia at the XXII Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, 1961 -- Daily LIFT #1812

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.

Nikita Khrushchev delivers the report "On the Program of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union" at the Twenty Second Communist Party Congress on October 18 , 1961 -- Daily LIFT #1810

Under the Apple Trees, traditional-style painting, Lei Hung-sheng and Liu Han-yu, People's Republic of China, c. 1976 From the PRC Press: In "Under the Apple Trees", another traditional-style painting, a young cook with water flasks and cups swinging from his shoulder pole passes beneath apple trees heavy with ripe fruit, taking water to the men helping a commune pick apples. The scene calls to mind an incident during the Third Revolutionary Civil War (1946-49) when the PLA w