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Michael Laxer
8 hours ago1 min read
Daily LIFT #1565
Transport Returning to Normal (After the Revolutionary Civil War), oil on panel, Boris Yakovlev, USSR 1923 -- Daily LIFT #1565
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Michael Laxer
Feb 21 min read
Daily LIFT #1556
Vocational school students in the USSR, 1972 -- Daily LIFT #1556 The young men at top were training to become bakers while the young...
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Michael Laxer
Feb 22 min read
Rehabilitation and rebirth in the postwar USSR
A brief, illustrated look at the remarkable Soviet recovery in the wake of the utter devastation of WWII. One of the most remarkable...
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Michael Laxer
Feb 11 min read
Soviet Health Service, 1984
Out on Call The right of Soviet citizens to health care is laid down in the Constitution of the USSR. All forms of medical care are free...
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Michael Laxer
Feb 11 min read
Daily LIFT #1555
Georgy Malenkov, Ho Chi Minh and Mao on a Vietnamese stamp, 1954 -- Daily LIFT #1555 Fascinating stamp from when Malenkov was briefly...
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Michael Laxer
Jan 291 min read
Daily LIFT #1553
Yuri Gagarin taking out the Komsomol Banner at the closing ceremony of the XIV Komsomol Congress, April 1962 -- Daily LIFT #1553 Image...
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Michael Laxer
Jan 272 min read
Message of Remembrance for the Victims of the Holocaust - NCPY
Diego Delso, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons New Communist Party of Yugoslavia, Message of Remembrance for the Victims of the...
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Michael Laxer
Jan 271 min read
Daily LIFT #1550
Vladimir Chiciherov, (3rd from left), Hero of Socialist Labour, USSR, 1984, with his team at the Leningrad Metallichesky Zavod production...
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Michael Laxer
Jan 264 min read
Communist Party of the Soviet Union 1983: Facts and Figures
Lenin illustration, USSR 1984 From the Soviet Press, 1983: In 1983, the Communist Party of the Soviet Union marked its 80th anniversary....
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Michael Laxer
Jan 201 min read
Daily LIFT #1545
Enamel Lenin Medallion for the 100th anniversary of Lenin's birth, Latvian SSR, USSR 1970 -- Daily LIFT #1445
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Michael Laxer
Jan 194 min read
Declaration of the People's Unity Against Imperialism -- Anti-Imperialist Front
Image from an anti-imperialist poster, People's Republic of China Anti-Imperialist Front In a speech given by U.S. President Truman in...
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Michael Laxer
Jan 185 min read
Cultural Revolution in the USSR
The 1928 Literacy courses on a cooperative farm in the Voronezh Region (Central Russia) From Socialism: Principles, Practice, Prospects...
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Michael Laxer
Jan 171 min read
Daily LIFT #1543
NATO: A Threat to Peace, poster, USSR 1984 -- Daily LIFT #1543 Remains true.
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Michael Laxer
Jan 161 min read
Daily LIFT #1542
Forward with Leninism, illustration, USSR 1984 -- Daily LIFT #1542
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Michael Laxer
Jan 151 min read
Daily LIFT #1541
No to Nuclear War!, poster illustration, Y. Utkina, USSR 1984 -- Daily LIFT #1541
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Michael Laxer
Jan 101 min read
Daily LIFT #1536
USSR People's Commissariat of Health symbol on a diploma, USSR 1942 -- Daily LIFT #1536
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Michael Laxer
Jan 23 min read
When did Fidel first say the slogan Socialism or Death!?
Fidel speaks, January 1, 1989 By Enrique Villuendas Calleyro, translated from the Spanish Among the slogans that after the triumph of...
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Michael Laxer
Dec 31, 20241 min read
Daily LIFT #1528
Builders of the Bratsk Hydroelectric Power Station, oil painting, V. Popkov, USSR 1961 -- Daily LIFT #1528
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Michael Laxer
Dec 29, 20241 min read
Soviet Moscow transport, 1948
A look at transport in the Soviet capital in 1948, just three years after the end of the Great Patriotic War. STREET SCENE. Thousands of...
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Michael Laxer
Dec 24, 20241 min read
Daily LIFT #1524
Lenin with children at the holiday party, folk art piece, artist unknown, USSR -- Daily LIFT #1524 From all of us at The Left Chapter to...
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