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Daily LIFT #1488
Lenin statue in Košice, Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, c. 1988 -- Daily LIFT #1488
Michael Laxer
Nov 7, 20241 min read


The Great Russian Revolution: Its Lessons for the World and India Today
Marzan Sharav, Lenin, tempera on cotton, 1922 By D. Rama, General Secretary, Communist Party of India The current geopolitical landscape...
Michael Laxer
Nov 7, 20245 min read


A short history of the Soviet Komsomol founded October 29, 1918
Mass rally in Red Square for the 50th anniversary of the Komsomol, October 29, 1968 -- RIA Novosti archive, image #569464 / Vladimir...
Michael Laxer
Oct 29, 202445 min read


Daily LIFT #1476
Bust of Lenin framed by the flags of the USSR and the Latvian SSR, 1987 --Daily LIFT #1476 Image via Kalnroze
Michael Laxer
Oct 23, 20241 min read


Daily LIFT #1466
Marx & Lenin, graphic, USSR 1984 -- Daily LIFT #1466
Michael Laxer
Oct 12, 20241 min read


Daily LIFT #1461
Stamp art in honour of the 13th Congress of Soviet Trade Unions, Moscow, USSR October, 1963 showing Lenin and young workers -- Daily LIFT...
Michael Laxer
Oct 6, 20241 min read


The Red Banner of the USSR
A look at the history and symbolism of the Red Banner of the USSR from the September, 1982 issue of Socialism: Principles, Practice,...
Michael Laxer
Sep 28, 20243 min read


Daily LIFT #1449
Lenin at the testing of the first Soviet electric plough at Butyrsky Farm, 1922 -- Daily LIFT #1449
Michael Laxer
Sep 21, 20241 min read


A look at the All-Union Leninist Young Communist League of the USSR
A young woman is admitted into the Komsomol in Norilsk, USSR 1960s - Vsevolod Tarasevich, CC BY 4.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses...
Michael Laxer
Sep 21, 20245 min read


Fred Hampton born, August 30, 1948
The great revolutionary and freedom fighter, Fred Hampton, was born August 30, 1948. A leader of the Black Panthers he was murdered by...
Michael Laxer
Aug 30, 20242 min read


Panoramic Soviet Moscow 1971 -- 21 Images
From a postcard packet published in the USSR in 1971, here we are sharing 21 panoramic images of the Soviet capital, some with our text...
Michael Laxer
Aug 28, 20247 min read


Knight of the Revolution: Felix Dzerzhinsky
A look at the life, times and thinking of the great Bolshevik revolutionary Felix Dzerzhinsky from a 1967 issue of Soviet Life magazine:...
Michael Laxer
Aug 24, 20247 min read


Daily LIFT #1428
Soviet stamp art for the German Democratic Republic 30th anniversary. Shows the Palast der Republic, the coat of arms of GDR and Marx,...
Michael Laxer
Aug 23, 20241 min read


The right of the Soviet worker to rest and leisure, 1982
The Voroshilov Sanatorium (Named for the Soviet General and one time People's Commissar for Defense), Sochi 1972. Note the funicular...
Michael Laxer
Jul 27, 20246 min read


Daily LIFT #1403
Lenin Proclaims Soviet Power, painting V. Serov (1910-1968), USSR -- Daily LIFT #1403 From the Great Soviet Encyclopedia, 1979: Vladimir...
Michael Laxer
Jul 24, 20242 min read


Daily LIFT #1400
Lenin in Moscow, July 20, 1920, photographer P.S. Zhukov -- Daily LIFT #1400
Michael Laxer
Jul 20, 20241 min read


Daily LIFT #1395
Lenin Portrait, Irakli Gamrekeli (1894–1943), Georgia, Transcaucasian Soviet Federated Socialist Republics, USSR 1924 -- Daily LIFT #1395
Michael Laxer
Jul 14, 20241 min read


Daily LIFT #1386
Lenin Statue, S. Merkulov, USSR 1948 -- Daily LIFT #1386
Michael Laxer
Jul 3, 20241 min read


Daily LIFT #1384
Forward to Communism!, illustration E. Arurunyan, USSR c. 1983
Michael Laxer
Jul 1, 20241 min read


Daily LIFT #1380
Lenin with the participants at the First Congress of the Komsomol in 1918, drawing, USSR Pyotr Vasilievich Vasiliev (1899-1975) -- Daily...
Michael Laxer
Jun 25, 20241 min read
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