Cover of the 1972 book On the Long March with Chairman Mao by Chen Chang-Feng -- Daily LIFT #2025

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

Image via Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library, UofT, CC BY 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons Mai Xiande (born 1945) is a Chinese naval hero in the People’s Liberation Army Navy, celebrated for his extraordinary bravery during a 1965 naval battle and honored with the national title of “People’s Hero.” Mai Xiande was born into a poor boat family in Raoping County, Guangdong Province, China, in 1945. He left school after completing the first year of junior high in 1961 and joined the local

Scene of the dock workers bursting into a song full of internationalist spirit in the revolutionary opera On the Docks, People's Republic of China, 1967 -- Daily LIFT #2011 From the PRC Press: "A revolutionary Peking Opera on a contemporary theme which portrays how a group of Chinese workers in the 60's, armed with Mao Tse-tung's thought and the proletarian internationalist spirit, rush to load grain going to support the anti-imperialist struggles being waged by the people of

Site of the First National Congress of the Chinese Communist Party. From China Reconstructs Magazine, 1972 By TANG YING-KUANG ON Hsingyeh Street in Shanghai stands an ordinary two-story building of grey brick, with arch shaped lintels above doors with brass-covered iron knockers. Here, in a front room on the ground floor, the founding meeting of the Communist Party of China began its sessions. The building is now preserved as a historical site, with the long table and twelve

"Study Mao Zedong Thought, Be the Successors of Communism", poster You Longgu, People's Republic of China, 1963 -- Daily LIFT #2008

Mao Zedong reading a book about leader of the Soviet Union Joseph Stalin, Yan'an, 1939 -- Daily LIFT #2007

Mao Zedong at the beach at Beidaihe in 1960 -- Daily LIFT #1983

Mao Family Portrait, 1949 -- Daily LIFT #1982

Mao at Yenan illustration, 1967 -- Daily LIFT #1979

Chairman Mao says: All our literature and art are for the masses of the people, and in the first place for the workers, peasants and soldiers; they are created for the workers, peasants and soldiers and are for their use. —.Talks at the Yenan Forum on Literature and Art, poster for the 25th anniversary of the famed talks, People's Republic of China, 1967 -- Daily LIFT #1977

The Red Army Does Not Fear the Trials of the Long March, lithograph, People's Republic of China -- Daily LIFT #1972

Mao stamps, German Democratic Republic, 1951 -- Daily LIFT #1971

Part 2 of 2. The two doctors making their rounds. TLC Editor's Note: The barefoot doctor program emerged in response to a severe shortage of doctors in rural China, where most physicians were concentrated in urban areas. Before 1949 and the triumph of the Revolution, there were only about 40,000 doctors for a population of roughly 540 million, leaving rural communities vulnerable to diseases such as schistosomiasis. The program was formalized after Mao Zedong’s 1965 directive

Part 1 of 2. Preventive inoculations. TLC Editor's Note: The barefoot doctor program emerged in response to a severe shortage of doctors in rural China, where most physicians were concentrated in urban areas. Before 1949 and the triumph of the Revolution, there were only about 40,000 doctors for a population of roughly 540 million, leaving rural communities vulnerable to diseases such as schistosomiasis. The program was formalized after Mao Zedong’s 1965 directive, which emph

Mao Receives the Model Workers, painting, Li Mo Bai People's Republic of China, 1964 -- Daily LIFT #1922

Chairman Mao having a smoke on a train, 1954 -- Daily LIFT #1918

Mao meeting with African and Asian writers in Beijing, 1964 -- Daily LIFT #1904

Mao writing while on an airplane flight, 1957 If you want to know a certain thing or a certain class of things directly, you must personally participate in the practical struggle to change reality, to change that thing or class of things, for only thus can you come into contact with them as phenomena; only through personal participation in the practical struggle to change reality can you uncover the essence of that thing or class of things and comprehend them. Marxism emphasi

Mao with student delegates to the Ninth Congress of the Communist Youth League of China in Beijing, 1964 -- Daily LIFT #1902