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An engine named for Chairman Mao: A train from revolutionary China
In October, 1946 Chinese railway workers in Harbin, China -- which had been newly liberated by the People's Liberation Army -- used scrap...
Michael Laxer
Feb 11, 20228 min read


Daily LIFT #625
Khrushchev, Mao and Ho Chi Minh share a drink, 1959 -- Daily LIFT #625
Michael Laxer
Jan 17, 20221 min read


Mao Zedong b. Dec 26, 1893
"All reactionaries are paper tigers. In appearance, the reactionaries are terrifying, but in reality they are not so powerful. From a...
Michael Laxer
Dec 26, 20211 min read


Daily LIFT #604
Mao addresses the November 1957 International Meeting of Communist and Workers Parties in Moscow, USSR -- Daily LIFT #604
Michael Laxer
Dec 18, 20211 min read


"Upholding Marxism-Leninism": Communiqué of the Sixth Plenary Session of the CC of the CPC
The vilification of the People's Republic of China in the western press and media has reached whole new levels as the United States...
Michael Laxer
Nov 11, 202120 min read


Daily LIFT #568
Ho Chi MInh greets people at the Beijing airport while walking with Mao, 1955 -- Daily LIFT #568
Michael Laxer
Nov 2, 20211 min read


Daily LIFT #566
Ho Chi Minh and Mao at the 10th annual National Day military parade in Beijing, October 1959 -- Daily LIFT #566
Michael Laxer
Oct 30, 20211 min read


Daily LIFT #554
Mao meets with Chinese students and workers living in Moscow, November 1957 -- Daily LIFT #554 Mao visited the USSR for the celebrations...
Michael Laxer
Oct 12, 20211 min read


Daily LIFT #552
Mao, Ho Chi Minh and Zhou Enlai in the People's Republic of China, 1955 - Daily LIFT #552
Michael Laxer
Oct 9, 20211 min read


Daily LIFT #540
Ho Chi Minh and Mao share a toast, 1957 -- Daily LIFT #540
Michael Laxer
Sep 22, 20211 min read


Daily LIFT #519
US Civil Rights leader Robert F. Williams with Chairman Mao, PRC 1964 -- Daily LIFT #519 Williams was living in exile in the People's...
Michael Laxer
Aug 22, 20211 min read


Daily LIFT #507
Long live Leninism, Marxism and Mao Zedong Thought!, poster, People's Republic of China, 1971 -- Daily LIFT #507
Michael Laxer
Aug 3, 20211 min read


Daily LIFT #494
Nikita Khrushchev, Mao Zedong, Ho Chi Minh and Soong Ching-ling dine together, 1959 -- Daily LIFT #494
Michael Laxer
Jul 14, 20211 min read


Daily LIFT #490
Ho Chi Minh and Mao share a toast, 1960 -- Daily LIFT #490
Michael Laxer
Jul 7, 20211 min read


Daily LIFT #420
Mao reviews a tank unit of the Chinese People's Liberation Army, Beijing Xiyuan Airport, March 25 1949 -- Daily LIFT #420 Mao reviewed...
Michael Laxer
Mar 25, 20211 min read


Che in the People's Republic of China, 1960
In the fall of 1960 the great revolutionary leader Che Guevara went on a diplomatic mission that saw him visit a number of socialist...
Michael Laxer
Mar 20, 20212 min read


Daily LIFT #410
Mao at the Third National Congress of the Chinese New-Democratic Youth League, 1957 -- Daily LIFT #410 We are living in a period of great...
Michael Laxer
Mar 12, 20212 min read


Daily LIFT #386
Anna Louise Strong, Mao and W.E.B. Du Bois in Wuhan. 1959 -- Daily LIFT #386 Remarkable photo shows Mao with famed communist journalist...
Michael Laxer
Feb 5, 20211 min read


Daily LIFT #382
Mao writing On Protracted War in a cave dwelling in Yanan, May 1938 -- Daily LIFT #382 "The existence of serious weaknesses in the War of...
Michael Laxer
Jan 30, 20211 min read


Daily LIFT #378
Mao Zedong at Bao'an, northern Shaanxi, 1936 -- Daily LIFT #378 This photo was taken by the famed American journalist Edgar Snow. This...
Michael Laxer
Jan 23, 20211 min read
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