We have looked several times at the history of the Battle of Stalingrad and the city that it occurred in in posts like Victory at...

Lenin Centennial Stamp Design, USSR 1970 -- Daily LIFT #1223 With a portrait by Nikolay Andreyev and the words "The Name of Vladimir...

"Politruk" Junior Political Officer Alexey Yeremenko leading a counterattack against enemy positions moments before being killed in July,...

Cabral, on the left, with another delegate to the Congress in Moscow, 1971 The immortal and unique genius of Lenin and his teachings are...

Celebrations of the 100th anniversary of the Communist Party of China, 2021 By Saurav Sarkar One of the foremost accomplishments of the...

The Crossing Monument, Zaporizhzhia, Ukrainian USSR, USSR 1985 -- Daily LIFT #1215 A monument erected in honour of the 25th anniversary...

While the photos of singer David Bowie in the capital of the Soviet Union are cool enough, the story of how Bowie got to Moscow is really...

Published in 1977 this postcard folder has images of the Far Eastern river city of Blagoveshchensk that was in the Amur Oblast of the...

The Oil Prospectors, illustration USSR 1963 -- Daily LIFT #1214

The ferry Soviet Azerbaijan, c. 1963 -- Daily LIFT #1213 From the Soviet press, April 1963: The new giant ferry Sovetsky Azerbaijan left...

The Motherland Calls Stalingrad Monument under construction, April 1963 -- Daily LIFT #1212 From the Soviet Press, April 1963: Overgrown...

The Workers' Club, painting, Pyotr Dmitrievich Buchkin, USSR 1930 -- Daily LIFT #1211 Buchkin (1886-1985) was an Honoured Artist of the...

Public domain image of NATO troops in Lithuania, 2014 April 4 marks the 75th anniversary of the formation of the imperialist war alliance...

The Lenin Bust in the Square of the Soviets Ulan-Ude is a city that lies in the Siberian Far East near Lake Baikal and the Mongolian...

Armenia, stained-glass art piece by Martiros Saryan and Henrik Siravyan, Armenian SSR, USSR, 1968 -- Daily LIFT #1208 Saryan (1880-1972)...

Kindergarten playground Kherson, Ukrainian SSR, USSR 1983 -- Daily LIFT #1206

Image from a Soviet stamp Issued in 1968 in honour of the 50th anniversary of the Red Army. It shows a famous scene from the Victory...

Gorky and Lenin in conversation, sketch USSR 1947 The great Maxim Gorky was born March 28, 1868. According to USSR Magazine in March,...

Lenin among the delegates of the III Congress of Komsomol, oil painting, Pyotr Petrovich Belousov (1912-1989), USSR 1947 -- Daily LIFT...

Kirov speaking at the tribune of XVII congress of the CPSU, painting Pyotr Belousov (1912-1989) The great revolutionary and Bolshevik...