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On the superiority of socialist power: KKE
At the headquarters of the Communist Party of Greece (KKE) The superiority of socialist power lies in the fact that it is the state of a...

The Left Chapter
1 day ago3 min read


Daily LIFT #1681
Deputies to the Supreme Soviet of the U.S.S.R. from Soviet Turkmenia, (from the Soviet Press 1951). In the foreground, right to left, are...

The Left Chapter
3 days ago1 min read


Sparta Knit-Goods Factory / For Our Homeland -- Tales of Soviet Women Workers for Peace, 1951 #8
From the Soviet Press, 1951 Image: The women Stakhanovites of the Sparta Knit-Goods Factory in Vilnius, the capital of the Lithuanian...

The Left Chapter
4 days ago2 min read


Daily LIFT #1677
College Graduates, painting R. Slyotov, USSR c. 1953 -- Daily LIFT #1677 In the background is the magnificent Moscow State University...

The Left Chapter
Jul 111 min read


Daily LIFT #1676
Maria Vlasova, Soviet crane operator, 1953 -- Daily LIFT #1676 From the Soviet Press: If anybody asks Marla Vlasova what her job is, she...

The Left Chapter
Jul 101 min read


Daily LIFT #1675
The New Building of the Moscow State University on Lenin Hills, illustration I. Grinstein, USSR 1953 -- Daily LIFT #1675 This magnificent...

The Left Chapter
Jul 91 min read


GAZ (ZIM) 12 - Vintage vehicle cards of the USSR #8
From the original Soviet card (translated): GAZ-12 (1949-1959) The first Soviet passenger car with a hydraulic clutch and two working...

The Left Chapter
Jul 91 min read


Riga's Children & Doves / Estonian Composer - Tales of Soviet Women Workers for Peace, 1951 #7
From the Soviet Press, 1951 Image : Lydia Auster, the Estonian composer, serves the cause of peace through the medium of her art. Her...

The Left Chapter
Jul 92 min read


Daily LIFT #1674
American soldiers swim across the Elbe to greet their Soviet allies. A still from the 1949 Soviet film "Meeting on the Elbe". -- Daily...

The Left Chapter
Jul 81 min read


YaAZ/MAZ-200 Truck - Vintage vehicle cards of the USSR #7
From the original Soviet card (translated): YaAZ-200 (1947-1965): The first Soviet diesel truck of serial production. Engine capacity -...

The Left Chapter
Jun 261 min read


Daily LIFT #1662
Soviet Pioneers at the tomb of the Unknown Sailor in the Crimea, c. 1975 -- Daily LIFT #1662 They are paying tribute to Soviet sailors...

The Left Chapter
Jun 231 min read


May First Cannery / All-Out Effort - Tales of Soviet Women Workers for Peace, 1951 #6
From the Soviet Press, 1951 Image: Shift forewoman P. I. Zabrodskaya (left), deputy to the City Soviet of Working People’s Deputies, and...
Michael Laxer
Jun 202 min read


Daily LIFT #1657
Vostok 5 & Vostok 6 stamp, People's Republic of Bulgaria 1963 -- Daily LIFT #1657 On June 14, 1963, the USSR launched Vostok 5 with...

The Left Chapter
Jun 161 min read


The Eleventh World Festival of Youth and Students, Cuba, Freedom Island, 1978
A short look at the festival from the Soviet magazine STP. From the Soviet press, 1985: The Republic of Cuba, the first socialist state...

The Left Chapter
Jun 92 min read


Daily LIFT #1652
A Young Pioneer Parade in Red Square, 1982 -- Daily LIFT #1652 From the Soviet Press: On May 19, 1982 the Leninist All-Union Young...

The Left Chapter
Jun 81 min read


GAZ-M20 "Pobeda" -- Vintage vehicle cards of the USSR #6
From the original Soviet card (translated): GAZ-20 Pobeda (1946-1958) The first domestic passenger car with a monocoque body. It was...

The Left Chapter
Jun 81 min read


Daily LIFT #1649
Performance at the XIX Congress of the The All-Union Leninist Young Communist League (Komsomol) in the Kremlin Palace, Moscow, USSR, 1982...

The Left Chapter
Jun 31 min read


For Life and Happiness - Tales of Soviet Women Workers for Peace, 1951 #5
From the Soviet Press, 1951 Maria Smirnova A new tractor with a shining coat of fresh paint comes off the conveyor. And as I watch it my...

The Left Chapter
Jun 32 min read


ALBA-TCP honours the legacy of Maurice Bishop
On May 29 ALBA-TCP (the Bolivarian Alliance for the Peoples of Our America – Peoples' Trade Treaty) issued a statement honouring...

The Left Chapter
May 311 min read


Imperialism's strategy of confrontation and aggression -- PCP
The Portuguese Communist Party on imperialism, EU and NATO militarism, US tariffs, Gaza, the war in Ukraine, anti-Communist historical...

The Left Chapter
May 304 min read
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