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Daily LIFT #516
Cover of Lenin on Educating the Youth, published for the centennial of his birth, USSR 1970 -- Daily LIFT #516 Two quotes from Lenin...
Michael Laxer
Aug 18, 20211 min read


Daily LIFT #513
Lenin outside Smolny, oil painting, 1925 Isaak Brodsky (1884-1939) -- Daily LIFT #513 Brodsky, an an Honoured Artist of the Russian...
Michael Laxer
Aug 12, 20211 min read


Daily LIFT #512
Lenin shaved and with a wig while evading arrest by the Provisional Government, Razliv Russia, August 11, 1917 -- Daily LIFT #512
Michael Laxer
Aug 11, 20211 min read


Daily LIFT #510
Lenin Speaking at the 1st All-Russian Congress on Education, Moscow August 1918 -- Daily LIFT #510 "Education is one of the component...
Michael Laxer
Aug 8, 20211 min read


Daily LIFT #502
Lenin Monument, Gomel USSR 1976
Michael Laxer
Jul 28, 20211 min read


Soviet Vitebsk 1976: 12 postcard images
Published in 1976 this folder of 12 images of Vitebsk in the Byelorussian SSR was aimed at domestic audience and was printed entirely in...
Michael Laxer
Jul 28, 20213 min read


Daily LIFT #489
Lenin and Krupskaya with a telescope in the village of Gorky, 1922 -- Daily LIFT #489
Michael Laxer
Jul 5, 20211 min read


Daily LIFT #486
Child at the base of the Saratov Monument to Lenin, USSR 1976 -- Daily LIFT #486
Michael Laxer
Jun 28, 20211 min read


17 panoramic photos of Soviet Donetsk 1973
Known then as Yuzovka, Donetsk at the time of the revolution was a mining city with a population of just over 50,000. After the triumph...
Michael Laxer
Jun 21, 20213 min read


Daily LIFT #479
LENIN!, Soviet poster -- Daily LIFT # 476
Michael Laxer
Jun 17, 20211 min read


Daily LIFT #474
Monument to Lenin, Yalta USSR, 1979 -- Daily LIFT #474
Michael Laxer
Jun 9, 20211 min read


Daily LIFT #473
Lenin delivers a speech on his April Theses, Petrograd, 1917 -- Daily LIFT #473
Michael Laxer
Jun 7, 20211 min read


Daily LIFT #470
Lenin and his sister Maria Ulyanova on their way to the Fifth All-Russian Congress of the Soviets, July 1918 -- Daily LIFT #470
Michael Laxer
Jun 4, 20211 min read


150 years since the fall of the Paris Commune
150 years ago today, May 28 1871, the Paris Commune (which had been proclaimed March 18, 1871) fell after the slaughter of what became...
Michael Laxer
May 28, 20212 min read


Daily LIFT #463
Soviet Military Poster c, 1975 -- Daily LIFT #463 "Today we are celebrating the universal military training of the working people. Up to...
Michael Laxer
May 25, 20211 min read


Ho Chi Minh, Born May 19, 1890
In Honour of Ho Chi Minh, Born May 19, 1890 "At first, patriotism, not yet communism, led me to have confidence in Lenin, in the Third...
Michael Laxer
May 19, 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 #448
Lenin in October, painting Nikolai Borovsky (1930-1988), Honored Artist of the USSR (1984)
Michael Laxer
May 2, 20211 min read


Daily LIFT #447
Lenin Speaks to the Workers, oil-on-canvas USSR 1972 -- Daily LIFT #447
Michael Laxer
May 1, 20211 min read


"Lenin's work is timely"
Lenin at Work, painting 1970, Igor Alexandrovich Reznik (1918-1978) Ukrainian SSR. Excerpted from: Lenin's work is timely - Speech by...
Michael Laxer
Apr 30, 20213 min read
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