Brezhnev speaks in front of Lenin, 1981 -- Daily LIFT #2100

Stories of Iconic Lenin Photos #4 From the Soviet Sputnik Magazine in 1969, the fourth and last in a series of looks at the background of several famous, iconic photographs of Lenin. Text: An album produced by the Art Publishers and entitled Lenin in Photographs is thought to be the first large collection of pictures taken of the leader of the October Revolution. In it Leonid Volkov-Lannit has brought together many obscure facts. These 130 photographs recall the events in the

Stories of Iconic Lenin Photos #3 From the Soviet Sputnik Magazine in 1969, the third in a series of looks at the background of several famous, iconic photographs of Lenin. Text: An album produced by the Art Publishers and entitled Lenin in Photographs is thought to be the first large collection of pictures taken of the leader of the October Revolution. In it Leonid Volkov-Lannit has brought together many obscure facts. These 130 photographs recall the events in the Smolny he

Stories of Iconic Lenin Photos #2 From the Soviet Sputnik Magazine in 1969, the second in a series of looks at the background of several famous, iconic photographs of Lenin. Text: An album produced by the Art Publishers and entitled Lenin in Photographs is thought to be the first large collection of pictures taken of the leader of the October Revolution. In it Leonid Volkov-Lannit has brought together many obscure facts. These 130 photographs recall the events in the Smolny h

Stories of Iconic Lenin Photos #1 From the Soviet Sputnik Magazine in 1969, the first in a series of looks at the background of several famous, iconic photographs of Lenin. Text: An album produced by the Art Publishers and entitled Lenin in Photographs is thought to be the first large collection of pictures taken of the leader of the October Revolution. In it Leonid Volkov-Lannit has brought together many obscure facts. These 130 photographs recall the events in the Smolny he

Large notice board with slogans about the 5-Year Plan in Moscow, Soviet Union (c. 1931) From the Soviet Magazine Sputnik in 1971, a look at the history of the USSR's Five-Year Plans up until then and beyond. In the spring of 1920 a group of scientists, engineers and economists — the State Commission for the Electrification of Russia (GOELRO) — began, on Lenin's instructions, to draw up the document that subsequently became known as "the GOELRO plan". The plan formed quite a v

Vladimir Lenin speaking on the international situation and the main objectives of the Communist International at the opening session of the Second Comintern Congress at the Uritsky Palace (Tauride Palace), 19 July 1920 -- Daily LIFT #2067

Lenin at the Fourth Congress of the Third International. Lenin addresses delegates to the Third Congress of the Communist International in Moscow, 1921 These impressions of the Fourth Congress of the Third International originally appeared in the German capitalist progressive daily, the Frankfurter Zeitung. The congress was held between November 5 and December 5, 1922. It was held in both Petrograd and Moscow. They were republished in English in Soviet Russia Pictorial in 192

Lenin at the age of 30 -- Daily LIFT #2063

Lenin in his study Originally published in English by the USSR Information Bulletin, 1947. Lydia Fotieva, the author of this article, worked with Lenin for a long time as his private secretary. These are her personal reminiscences of the great man with whom she worked in close association. IN the course of five years, Lenin's study in the Kremlin was the actual headquarters of the Revolution. I recall the furnishings of the room. Just opposite the door stood a writing table w

All Power to the Soviets!, Lenin illustration, USA 1974 -- Daily LIFT #2046

Lenin directing the Bolshevik uprising from Smolny, illustration from a Soviet history book, 1968 By Alexandra Kollontai, published in English in 1947 Kollontai was a famed Bolshevik revolutionary leader, Marxist thinker, women's rights advocate and diplomat. You can learn more about her at: Remembering Alexandra Kollontai b. March 31, 1872. This is her remembrance of Lenin in the early days of the Revolution: If someone were to ask me what hour of my life I cherished most an

Gorky and Lenin in conversation, sketch USSR 1947 An English translation released in the Soviet Press, 1947: I EXPECTED Lenin to be different. To me something seemed to be lacking in him. He blurred his r's and, thumbs stuck under his armpits, stood with arms akimbo. And, all in all, he was somehow too plain; you felt nothing of the "leader" in him. I am a literary man. My profession obliges me to observe petty details and this duty has become a habit, sometimes even a tireso

Lenin and Sverdlov in the presidium of the Congress Agricultural Communes and Agricultural Artels, Moscow, December 1918 -- Daily LIFT #2037

Lenin at the Second Congress of the Communist International in Moscow, photos not earlier than July 23 and not later than August 6, 1920 -- Daily LIFT #2031 Upper image: V. I. Lenin in the Kremlin at the meeting of one of the commissions of the Second Congress of the Communist International Lower image: V. I. Lenin in the presidium of the Second Congress of the Communist International in the Kremlin.

Attlee, Truman and Stalin at Potsdam, Germany, circa 28 July -- 1 August 1945 By Urariano Mota Historical records indicate that the Potsdam Conference took place in Potsdam, Germany (near Berlin), beginning on 17 July 1945. The participants were the victorious Allies of the Second World War, amongst whom Stalin stood out with the glorious Red Army. Now and always is the time to stand firm against all propaganda from capitalist countries: this overwhelming victory of the Red A

A still from the movie Lenin in October, USSR 1937 -- Daily LIFT #2013

Soviet Lenin illustration. Written by Soviet historian Pytor Petrov in Soviet Life in 1969, this is a look at how Lenin's "Letter to American Workers" was smuggled into the United States in the winter of 1918-1919 as the young Soviet Republic fought for its life. (Learn more about the letter at: Lenin's Letter to American Workers written August 20, 1918) Text: A SHIP from Copenhagen docked at one of the piers in New York. Among the passengers who hurried down the gang plank w

"Nikolai Lenin: A sketch made from life for the New York Times by Oscar Cesare in Moscow, November 1922, and autographed by Lenin" -- Daily LIFT #1999

Lenin, image from Soviet poster, 1965 -- Daily LIFT #1992