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Daily LIFT #1763
The First Tractor Arrives, illustration, Li Chi, People's Republic of China, 1950 -- Daily LIFT #1763 About the illustration: "The peasants show great interest in the first tractor arriving from the Soviet Union, which heralds great changes ahead in the rural mode of production."

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Oct 21, 20251 min read


Daily LIFT #1762
Mural, USSR, 1962 -- Daily LIFT #1762

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Oct 19, 20251 min read


Daily LIFT #1761
Women voting in the People's Republic of China, 1954 -- Daily LIFT #1761 From the PRC press: In 1954, in China's first general election, 278 million people elected their delegates to more than 280,000 local people's congresses. In subsequent rounds, deputies were elected to the county, municipal and provincial congresses and those of the various national autonomous. regions-and finally to the National People's Congress which adopted the Constitution with socialism as its goal

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Oct 17, 20251 min read


Daily LIFT #1760
A view of the USSR Exhibition of Economic Achievements in Moscow, USSR 1959 -- Daily LIFT #1760

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Oct 16, 20251 min read


Daily LIFT #1759
The New Title Deeds, illustration, People's Republic of China 1950 -- Daily LIFT #1759 From the PRC press: The final stage of land reform and redistribution from the feudal landlords is reached when the new peasant land owners receive their title-deeds bearing a red official seal.

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Oct 15, 20251 min read


Daily LIFT #1758
The iconic Worker and Kolkhoz Woman statue of Vera Mukhina outside the USSR Exhibition of Economic Achievements in Moscow, 1959 -- Daily LIFT #1758

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Oct 14, 20251 min read


Daily LIFT #1757
At the Village Co-op, Woodcut, Yang Ke-yang, People's Republic of China, 1951 -- Daily LIFT #1757

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Oct 13, 20251 min read


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

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Oct 12, 20251 min read


Daily LIFT #1755
A Gorky Auto Plant mechanic teaching a collective farm girl girl to use tools, USSR 1931 -- Daily LIFT #1755

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Oct 11, 20251 min read


Daily LIFT #1754
Women's militia at the Eagle's Nest Mountain Farm Commune, People's Republic of China, 1968 -- Daily LIFT #1754

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Oct 10, 20251 min read


Daily LIFT #1753
A Cooperative Store in the New People's China, woodcut, PRC, 1950 -- Daily LIFT #1753

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Oct 9, 20251 min read


Daily LIFT #1752
Chairman Mao among the workers of Anyuan during their struggles in the early 1920s -- illustrations, People's Republic of China, 1968 --...

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Oct 8, 20251 min read


Daily LIFT #1751
The youngest member of the People's Chamber of the German Democratic Republic, Margot Feist, congratulates Wilhelm Pieck on his election...

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Oct 7, 20251 min read


Daily LIFT #1750
Workers celebrate a bumper crop at the Chiliying People's Commune, People's Republic of China, 1968 -- Daily LIFT #1750

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Oct 5, 20251 min read


Daily LIFT#1749
Presidium of the General Assembly of the Fourth World Youth Festival, German Democratic Republic, 1953 -- Daily LIFT #1749 Right to left:...

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Oct 4, 20251 min read


Daily LIFT #1748
The inscription on the pylon of red porphyry rising from the center of the Soviet Pavilion at the New York's World Fair, 1939 -- Daily...

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Oct 3, 20251 min read


Daily LIFT #1747
Revolutionaries of the Shanghai Conservatory of Music bring the Red Lantern revolutionary opera with piano and songs to dock workers,...

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Oct 2, 20251 min read


Daily LIFT #1746
Members of the Worker-Peasant Mao Zedong's Thought Propaganda Team in Beijing, October, 1968 -- Daily LIFT #1746 From the People's...

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Oct 1, 20251 min read


Daily LIFT #1745
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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Sep 30, 20251 min read


Daily LIFT #1744
The Dawn of a New Day, illustration, The Messenger magazine USA, September, 1926 -- Daily LIFT #1744

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Sep 29, 20251 min read
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