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Daily LIFT #1795
Krupskaya with a group of Soviet Young Pioneers, 1927 -- Daily LIFT #1795

The Left Chapter
Nov 13, 20251 min read


Remembering John Reed
From the Soviet Press, 1962, a moving account of the great John Reed. Yelizaveta Drabkina was only 16 years old when she took part in the October 1917 Revolution. She met and spoke to Lenin on many occasions. Her book Black Crusts, which is widely read in the Soviet Union, centers on the period. In 1961 she published The Story of an Unwritten Book, in which she describes John Reed's part in the Russian Revolution. She was a close friend of the American journalist. REVOLUTIONA

The Left Chapter
Nov 11, 20256 min read


How Bolshevism Was Born
Reminisces of the Second Congress of the Russian Social-Democratic Labour Party from Fridrikh Lengnik, Krupskaya and Martyn Lyadov....
Michael Laxer
Feb 12, 20255 min read


Daily LIFT #1471
Krupskaya with a Soviet student, 1936 -- Daily LIFT #1471 Nadezhda Krupskaya stanch revolutionary, Marxist and Bolshevik -- who went into...
Michael Laxer
Oct 17, 20241 min read


Daily LIFT #1106
Ceremony at the monument to Nadezhda Krupskaya, Moscow, USSR 1976 -- Daily LIFT #1106 The monument was sculpted by the great Soviet...
Michael Laxer
Dec 4, 20232 min read


April in Lenin's Life
This short little piece published in the Soviet magazine Socialism: Theory and Practice in April 1983 looks at the various events that...
Michael Laxer
Apr 22, 20231 min read


Remembering Alexandra Kollontai b. March 31, 1872
In honour of the 150th anniversary of the birth of the great Bolshevik revolutionary and leader we repost a Soviet account of her life...
Michael Laxer
Mar 31, 20226 min read


Daily LIFT #401
Nadezhda Krupskaya and Clara Zetkin at the Third All-Russia Conference on Preschool Education, Moscow, 1926 -- Daily LIFT #401 Zetkin,...
Michael Laxer
Feb 27, 20211 min read


Daily LIFT #400
A team of tractor drivers visit Krupskaya's office in Moscow, 1935 -- Daily LIFT #400 Nadezhda Krupskaya stanch revolutionary, Marxist...
Michael Laxer
Feb 26, 20211 min read
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