Michael Laxer
Jet train of the USSR
Recently while looking through an issue of the Soviet magazine Sputnik from 1974, I came across a photo of an absolutely wild looking...
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Michael Laxer
Oct 61 min
Daily LIFT #1461
Stamp art in honour of the 13th Congress of Soviet Trade Unions, Moscow, USSR October, 1963 showing Lenin and young workers -- Daily LIFT...
Michael Laxer
Oct 11 min
Daily LIFT #1457
Autumn in Moscow Beside the Kremlin, Georgi Khrapak, gouache, USSR 1970 -- Daily LIFT #1457
Michael Laxer
Sep 283 min
The Red Banner of the USSR
A look at the history and symbolism of the Red Banner of the USSR from the September, 1982 issue of Socialism: Principles, Practice,...
Michael Laxer
Sep 271 min
Daily LIFT #1454
Comrade Leonid Brezhnev (right) in the rank of commissar, giving a Communist Party membership card to a soldier (1942) -- Daily LIFT...
Michael Laxer
Sep 252 min
General Ramón Espinosa MartÃn, Hero of the Republic of Cuba, died on Tuesday
Via the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Cuba, translated from the Spanish On Tuesday afternoon (September 24), member of the Political...
Michael Laxer
Sep 231 min
Daily LIFT #1450
Harbinger, K. Bekmuradov, Turkmenian SRR, USSR 1976 -- Daily LIFT #1450
Michael Laxer
Sep 215 min
A look at the All-Union Leninist Young Communist League of the USSR
A young woman is admitted into the Komsomol in Norilsk, USSR 1960s - Vsevolod Tarasevich, CC BY 4.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses...
Michael Laxer
Sep 183 min
No to the prohibition of Communist ideology in the republics of Central Asia!
The Socialist Movement of Kazakhstan, with the Communist parties of Greece and Mexico, has issued a statement condemning recent attempts...
Michael Laxer
Sep 181 min
Arnaldo Tamayo Méndez goes into space, 18 September, 1980
On September 18, 1980 after extensive training in the Soviet Union as part of the Soviet internationalist Interkosmos program, Arnaldo...
Michael Laxer
Sep 75 min
The Spartakiads of the peoples of the USSR
Opening ceremonies of the Second Spartakiad of the Peoples of the USSR, Moscow, August 1959. The Spartakiad was a festival of amateur,...
Michael Laxer
Sep 32 min
Communist Party of the Soviet Union, 1980
Stamp for the XXVI congress of the CPSU, 1981, From the Soviet Press in 1981, a brief look at the Communist Party of the Soviet Union...
Michael Laxer
Aug 311 min
Daily LIFT #1434
Gorky St. as Seen from Okhotny Rd. 1952, Autolithograph, Emmanuil Bernstein USSR -- Daily LIFT #1434
Michael Laxer
Aug 312 min
Salaspils and the "Ost" plan
From a folder of historic cards published in 1985 on the 40th anniversary of the victory of the USSR in the Great Patriotic War we...
Michael Laxer
Aug 291 min
Daily LIFT #1432
Leonid Brezhnev lighting the eternal flame at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier in Moscow, USSR, May 8, 1967 -- Daily LIFT #1432
Michael Laxer
Aug 281 min
Daily LIFT #1431
Nikita Khrushchev and Leonid Brezhnev in conversation during the Great Patriotic War, 1943 -- Daily LIFT #1431
Michael Laxer
Aug 287 min
Panoramic Soviet Moscow 1971 -- 21 Images
From a postcard packet published in the USSR in 1971, here we are sharing 21 panoramic images of the Soviet capital, some with our text...
Michael Laxer
Aug 265 min
Why Poverty Reduction Under Capitalism Is a Myth
Skid Row Los Angeles By Richard D. Wolff From its beginnings, the capitalist economic system produced both critics and celebrants, those...
Michael Laxer
Aug 255 min
Homemade Car Rallies of the USSR w. the Amphibious Ichtyandr
Through the 70s and into the 80s amateur homemade car rallies were held in the USSR in which ordinary citizens built their own vehicles...
Michael Laxer
Aug 241 min
Daily LIFT #1429
Remarkable photo of early Soviet cosmonauts Pavel Popovich, Yuri Gagarin, Valentina Tereshkova, Valeri Bykovsky, Andrian Nikolayev and...
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