Leningrad, The Year of 1941, painting Andrei Mylnikov, USSR 1974 -- Daily LIFT #1421 A painting capturing the beginning of the terrible...

Leningrad Highway, tempera, Georgi Khrapak (1922-1974) USSR 1972 -- Daily LIFT #1419

From the Soviet Sputnik Magazine in 1985, a brief look at some of the decorations awarded during and after the Great Patriotic War as the...

Marshal Zhukov at the 1945 Moscow Victory Parade -- Daily LIFT #1417 Georgy Zhukov, the great strategic military Red Army genius who...

The Decrees of Soviet Power Being Read to the People, painting USSR, Victor Ivanov -- Daily LIFT #1416

From the Soviet Magazine Sputnik in 1982, a brief look at the Moskva Restaurant with a recipe for a house specialty: Fish Cutlets. From...

The Voroshilov Sanatorium (Named for the Soviet General and one time People's Commissar for Defense), Sochi 1972. Note the funicular...

Lenin Proclaims Soviet Power, painting V. Serov (1910-1968), USSR -- Daily LIFT #1403 From the Great Soviet Encyclopedia, 1979: Vladimir...

Here we are taking at a panoramic postcard folder from 1980 that celebrated the remarkable building of the Baikal–Amur Mainline (BAM)...

Dynamo Swimming Pool, encaustic painting Leonid Korsakov, USSR 1973 -- Daily LIFT #1399

A New District (Vernadsky Prospekt), gouache Vasily Sigorsky, USSR 1970 -- Daily LIFT #1398

Parade on Palace Square, Leningrad USSR, November 7, 1976 -- Daily LIFT #1397

For the sake of America's security and world peace, the U.S. should immediately abandon the neocon quest for hegemony in favor of...

Glory to the Victorious Soldier!, poster, V. Klimashin USSR -- Daily LIFT #1392

Cover of the first Soviet constitution in 1918 -- Daily LIFT #1391

Zamira Mutalova shows agricultural technique on her collective farm, USSR 1948 -- Daily LIFT #1387 Mutalova, though only 17, was named a...

Lenin Statue, S. Merkulov, USSR 1948 -- Daily LIFT #1386

Lenin illustration, Lydia Gibson, USA 1926 -- Daily LIFT #1379 A Lenin illustration that was the cover of a Workers Monthly magazine...

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...

Public Domain Image By Jeffrey D. Sachs, Common Dreams For the fifth time since 2008, Russia has proposed to negotiate with the U.S. over...