Michael Laxer
Armenian SSR formed, November 29, 1920
Emblem of the Armenian Soviet Socialist Republic, formed November 29, 1920 From USSR Magazine, November 1964: November 29, 1920. The...
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Michael Laxer
- 5 days ago
- 1 min
Daily LIFT #838
Workers of the World Unite! -- Karl Marx poster, USSR 1968 -- Daily LIFT #838
Michael Laxer
- 5 days ago
- 1 min
Republics of the USSR - 16 postcard images
The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, the world's first workers' state, was comprised of 15 separate socialist republics until the...
Michael Laxer
- Nov 15
- 1 min
Daily LIFT #834
Fragment of the memorial complex to the fighters who fell for the power of the Soviets, Omsk, USSR 1971 -- Daily LIFT#834
Michael Laxer
- Nov 15
- 3 min
Soviet Minsk, 1968: 45 color photos
Published in 1968, this tourist photo book had 44 attached full color photos as well as a panoramic one that was its inside cover. Minsk...
Michael Laxer
- Nov 6
- 1 min
Daily LIFT #829
VI Lenin in 1919, Oil, Dmitry Nalbandyan USSR 1957 -- Daily LIFT #829 Dmitry Nalbandyan was a full member of the USSR Academy of Arts,...
Michael Laxer
- Nov 5
- 1 min
Daily LIFT #828
Monument to Lenin, Gomel USSR 1976 -- Daily LIFT #828 For more images from Soviet Gomel see Soviet Gomel 1976: 13 Soviet Postcards...
Michael Laxer
- Nov 5
- 2 min
Lenin at the Electrification Map
Lenin at the Electrification Map -- Mikhail Bozhyi (1911 - 1990), People's Artist of the Ukrainian SSR, Oil Painting, 1961 "After proving...
Michael Laxer
- Nov 3
- 1 min
Daily LIFT #827
Stamp in honour of the launch of Sputnik 2, Czechoslovakia -- Daily LIFT #827 Sputnik 2, the second spacecraft to enter Earth's orbit was...
Michael Laxer
- Nov 2
- 3 min
Daily LIFT #826
Monument to Karl Marx, Leningrad (bronze and stone) sculpture Nikolai Tomsky, USSR 1932 -- Daily LIFT #826 Nikolai Tomsky (sometimes...
Michael Laxer
- Oct 31
- 1 min
Daily LIFT #824
In the collective farm headquarters, painting, Samuil Yakovlevich Adlivankin, USSR 1931 -- Daily LIFT #824
Michael Laxer
- Oct 30
- 10 min
Chronicling the revolution: Soviet stamps 1917-1960
First published in October 1960, this is a fascinating, illustrated look at the history of Soviet stamps in the first forty-three years...
Michael Laxer
- Oct 27
- 1 min
The Professions -- Soviet Socialist Realist art for youth
Published in Moscow in 1983 this folder of Soviet socialist realist art was actually aimed at children. It was a portfolio of works by...
Michael Laxer
- Oct 23
- 1 min
Daily LIFT #820
Stamp in honour of the 22nd Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, 1961 -- Daily LIFT #820 Held between October 17-31,...
Michael Laxer
- Oct 16
- 1 min
Daily LIFT #816
Big Bill Haywood at a rally in Moscow, USSR 1923 (Haywood is at lower left) -- Daily LIFT #816 Legendary IWW leader Haywood fled the...
Michael Laxer
- Oct 11
- 3 min
The Eugene V. Debs Children's Colony: Soviet children's homes expropriated from the wealthy, 1923
The Lenin Children's Home in Orenburg After the devastation of the First World War, the triumph of the Bolshevik Revolution saw the lands...
Michael Laxer
- Oct 5
- 1 min
Daily LIFT #810
Soviet EXPO 1970 stamp celebrating "Children's Creativity" -- Daily LIFT #810