Michael Laxer
Daily LIFT #770
USSR: Bulwark of Peace, Moscow 1988 -- Daily LIFT #770 Magnificent sculpture structure that went through many variations during the the...
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Michael Laxer
- Aug 3, 2022
- 1 min
Daily LIFT #768
Mass rally at the 12th World Festival of Youth and Students, Moscow USSR, 1985 -- Daily LIFT #768 The 12th World Festival of Youth and...
Michael Laxer
- Jul 21, 2022
- 1 min
Daily LIFT #759
Soviet author Maxim Gorky bids farewell to to French novelist Romain Rolland and his wife after their trip to the USSR, Moscow, July 21...
Michael Laxer
- Jul 3, 2022
- 1 min
Daily LIFT #746
Demobilized Red Army soldiers arrive home at the Byelorussia Railroad Station, Moscow after the victory over the Nazis in the Great...
Michael Laxer
- May 26, 2022
- 1 min
Daily LIFT #718
Delegates to the Tenth All-Russia Conference of the R.C.P.(B) in the Sverdlovsk Hall of the Kremlin, Moscow, May 26, 1921. Lenin is in...
Michael Laxer
- May 25, 2022
- 8 min
Dinner at a Soviet factory cafeteria, 1963
The cafeteria at the "Mosstroytrans" Trucking Depot No. 1, Moscow c. 1979 A fascinating bit of Soviet social history, this article from...
Michael Laxer
- May 25, 2022
- 2 min
Lenin on Red Square, May 25, 1919
Images of Lenin #58 Lenin on Red Square at a parade of workers' regiments formed under the Universal Military Training Scheme (Vsevobuch)...
Michael Laxer
- May 5, 2022
- 1 min
Lenin in Sverdlov Square, May 5 1920
Images of Lenin #43 V. I. Lenin addressing men of the Red Army leaving for the Polish Front, Sverdlov Square, Moscow May 5, 1920 --...
Michael Laxer
- Apr 30, 2022
- 1 min
Lenin, Moscow May 1, 1920
Images of Lenin #38 V. I. Lenin at the laying of the foundation stone of a monument to Liberated Labour, Prechistenskaya embankment,...
Michael Laxer
- Apr 18, 2022
- 1 min
Lenin, July 1920, Moscow
Images of Lenin #28 Lenin, July 1920, Moscow -- Images of Lenin #28 This is the twenty-eighth in our new daily feature that will be...
Michael Laxer
- Mar 18, 2022
- 1 min
Lenin in the presidium of the First Congress of the Third International
Images of Lenin #2 V.I. Lenin in the presidium of the First Congress of the Third International, Moscow, March 1919 "The Paris Commune --...
Michael Laxer
- Jan 27, 2022
- 4 min
Five varieties of Soviet borsch -- Vintage Cookbook TBT
w. Moscow Borsch, Ukrainian Borsch, Borsch with Dried White Mushrooms and Prunes, Summer Borsch and Cold Beetroot Soup. Stock photo These...
Michael Laxer
- Jan 20, 2022
- 1 min
Daily LIFT #629
Crowds assemble at the Kremlin Palace of the Congresses for a showing of The Defiant Ones during the Third Moscow International Film...
Michael Laxer
- Jan 8, 2022
- 3 min
A talk with Lenin: An American in Moscow, 1921
An account of the visit of progressive American economist and former presidential candidate Parley Christensen to meet Lenin in Moscow,...
Michael Laxer
- Dec 29, 2021
- 5 min
Lenin: Three historic photos and their stories
During the centennial year of Lenin's birth, 1970, Mikhail Yeryomin, a retired Soviet Major-General who was then working for the...
Michael Laxer
- Dec 25, 2021
- 1 min
Daily LIFT #610
Gymnasts perform during the USSR-USA track and field meet in Moscow, summer 1958 -- Daily LIFT #610 The meet was held in front of 60,000...
Michael Laxer
- Dec 24, 2021
- 1 min
Daily LIFT #609
A celebration of the season around a giant holiday tree, Moscow USSR, 1957 -- Daily LIFT #609 From all of us at The Left Chapter to all...
Michael Laxer
- Dec 21, 2021
- 2 min
Lenin: Four rare photos
Published in the Soviet press for the 100th anniversary of Lenin's birth (April 1970) these were four photographs of Lenin that had been...
Michael Laxer
- Dec 6, 2021
- 1 min
Daily LIFT #595
International Women's Day march, Moscow, USSR 1924 -- Daily LIFT #595 After the Bolshevik Revolution International Women's Day was made a...
Michael Laxer
- Dec 6, 2021
- 1 min
Daily LIFT #594
Soviet soldiers man an air defense gun in Moscow during the Battle of Moscow. In the background can be seen the famous socialist realist...
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