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Red Forces Win at the Battle of Volochayevka, February 12, 1922
Art and Memorial Photos, USSR 1972 Part of a Battle of Volochayevka Diorama On February 12, 1922 the Red fighters of the People's...
Michael Laxer
Feb 12, 20211 min read


Daily LIFT #387
Red Army Detachment 1919, painting Sergey Luppov (1893-1977) 1928 -- Daily LIFT #387 Luppov's painting shows a Red detachment marching to...
Michael Laxer
Feb 8, 20211 min read


Victory at Stalingrad! - Photos of war, resistance and renaissance
A look at the Hero City of Volgograd / Stalingrad in war and peace. On February 2, 1943 the Nazis left in the city surrendered and the...
Michael Laxer
Feb 2, 20214 min read


Daily LIFT #384
Soldier with the victory flag on Mamayev Kurgan, Stalingrad, February 1, 1943 -- Daily LIFT #384 In a photo dated February 1, 1943, a Red...
Michael Laxer
Feb 2, 20211 min read


Hostile Whirlwinds: The Civil War and the Russian Revolution
A Soviet look at the life-and-death struggle against foreign intervention and counter-revolution that gripped the lands of what was to...
Michael Laxer
Jan 30, 202122 min read


Leningrad: A photographic exposition of resistance, victory and reconstruction
On January 27, 1944 the Red Army finally lifted the siege of Leningrad. These contrasting images of the city during the days of the war...
Michael Laxer
Jan 27, 20212 min read


Red Army troops take Mamayev Kurgan, January 26 1943
Decisive moment in the victory at Stalingrad. On January 26, 1943 Soviet forces captured the heights of Mamayev Kurgan in the city of...
Michael Laxer
Jan 26, 20217 min read


Red Army May Day Parade on Red Square, 1920
Photos of Revolutionary Russia #10 Red Army May Day Parade on Red Square, 1920 -- Photos of Revolutionary Russia #10
Michael Laxer
Jan 22, 20211 min read


Red Army volunteers line up at a recruitment centre, Petrograd 1918
Photos of Revolutionary Russia #8 Red Army volunteers line up at a recruitment centre, Petrograd 1918 -- Photos of Revolutionary Russia #8
Michael Laxer
Jan 19, 20211 min read


Dmitriy Furmanov with the propaganda brigade of the Chapayev division, 1919
Photos of Revolutionary Russia #6 Dmitriy Furmanov with the propaganda brigade of the Chapayev division, 1919 -- Photos of Revolutionary...
Michael Laxer
Jan 17, 20211 min read


The Red Army enters Kazan during the early Civil War, 1918
Photos of Revolutionary Russia #5 The Red Army enters Kazan during the early Civil War, 1918 -- Photos of Revolutionary Russia #5 The...
Michael Laxer
Jan 17, 20211 min read


Red Army troops arrive on an armoured train, 1918
Photos of Revolutionary Russia #3 Red Army troops arrive on an armoured train, 1918 Early in the Civil War a detachment of Red Army...
Michael Laxer
Jan 15, 20211 min read


Daily LIFT #345
A Red Army contingent marches through Red Square to celebrate the 5th anniversary of the revolution, Moscow November 7, 1922 -- Daily...
Michael Laxer
Dec 12, 20201 min read


Red Army troops retake the city of Rostov-on-Don, November 27, 1941
Red Army troops fight to retake the city of Rostov-on-Don, November 27, 1941 On November 27, 1941 the Red Army's 37th Army under the...
Michael Laxer
Nov 27, 20201 min read
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