top of page
Search


Daily LIFT #1493
March on the anniversary of the Great October Socialist Revolution, Riga, Latvian SSR, USSR, November 1940 -- Daily LIFT #1493
Michael Laxer
Nov 14, 20241 min read


Daily LIFT #1491
Peace to the Peoples, poster. Soviet Artists for Peace. R. Suryaninov, USSR 1982 -- Daily LIFT #1491
Michael Laxer
Nov 11, 20241 min read


Daily LIFT #1490
Protest, painting, A.A. and P.A. Smolin, USSR 1964 -- Daily LIFT #1490
Michael Laxer
Nov 10, 20241 min read


The Great Russian Revolution: Its Lessons for the World and India Today
Marzan Sharav, Lenin, tempera on cotton, 1922 By D. Rama, General Secretary, Communist Party of India The current geopolitical landscape...
Michael Laxer
Nov 7, 20245 min read


Daily LIFT #1486
The Constructors, Ivan Grigorievich Stepanov, USSR 1967 -- Daily LIFT #1486
Michael Laxer
Nov 5, 20241 min read


Good Morning Revolution
Good-morning, Revolution: You're the very best friend I ever had. We gonna pal around together from now on. Say, listen, Revolution:...
Michael Laxer
Nov 3, 20242 min read


Daily LIFT #1482
Holding aloft the hammer and sickle at the 17th Congress of the Komsomol, Kremlin Palace of Congresses, Moscow, USSR 1974 -- Daily LIFT...
Michael Laxer
Oct 30, 20241 min read


Daily LIFT #1481
Poster in Azerbaijani and Russian depicts the struggle of the Baku proletariat building socialism in the revolutionary years 1917-1927 --...
Michael Laxer
Oct 29, 20241 min read


A short history of the Soviet Komsomol founded October 29, 1918
Mass rally in Red Square for the 50th anniversary of the Komsomol, October 29, 1968 -- RIA Novosti archive, image #569464 / Vladimir...
Michael Laxer
Oct 29, 202445 min read


Daily LIFT #1478
Delegates of the XVII Congress of the All-Union Leninist Communist Youth Union sing an impromptu song during a break between sessions in...
Michael Laxer
Oct 25, 20241 min read


"Opposition and disobedience to the EU’s brutal institutional framework for refugees and migrants" - call of the KKE
Undated handout image provided by Greece’s coastguard on June 14, 2023 of the boat that sank of Pylos, Greece killing as many as 600...
Michael Laxer
Oct 25, 20246 min read


Daily LIFT #1477
Leading carpet weavers Yevgenia Yarmakhova and Sakinat Katarova display their work in a co-operative in the Kabardinian ASSR, USSR 1949...
Michael Laxer
Oct 24, 20241 min read


Daily LIFT #1476
Bust of Lenin framed by the flags of the USSR and the Latvian SSR, 1987 --Daily LIFT #1476 Image via Kalnroze
Michael Laxer
Oct 23, 20241 min read


Daily LIFT #1475
Drama Theater of the Latvian SSR, USSR 1940 -- Daily LIFT #1475
Michael Laxer
Oct 22, 20241 min read


Daily LIFT #1471
Krupskaya with a Soviet student, 1936 -- Daily LIFT #1471 Nadezhda Krupskaya stanch revolutionary, Marxist and Bolshevik -- who went into...
Michael Laxer
Oct 17, 20241 min read


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...
Michael Laxer
Oct 10, 20241 min read


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 6, 20241 min read


Daily LIFT #1457
Autumn in Moscow Beside the Kremlin, Georgi Khrapak, gouache, USSR 1970 -- Daily LIFT #1457
Michael Laxer
Oct 1, 20241 min read


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 28, 20243 min read


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 27, 20241 min read
bottom of page



