"Youth of the North", photograph, G. Nadezhdin, USSR 1963 -- Daily LIFT #1833 Maya Pyak, a Nenets woman, breeder of blue fox at the Purovsk state farm of the Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Region of the R.S.F.S.R.

Chairman Mao checking out a Dongfeng CA71 Car, 1958 -- Daily LIFT #1832 The Dongfeng CA71, produced in 1958 by First Automotive Works (FAW), was the first passenger car to be manufactured entirely in China, marking a key milestone in Chinese automotive history. The Dongfeng CA71 was developed by FAW in Changchun during the Great Leap Forward, with its first prototype completed on May 12, 1958. FAW was founded in 1953 with support from the Soviet Union and initially focused on

For Peace on Earth, Soviet peace activists rally, 1983, painting USSR, Eduard Belagurov -- Daily LIFT #1831

Lenin directing the Bolshevik uprising from Smolny, illustration from a Soviet history book, 1968 -- Daily LIFT #1830

Marxist-Leninist-Maoist ideological study group at the Changchun No. 1 Automobile Plant, People's Republic of China 1969 -- Daily LIFT #1829

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