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Daily LIFT #1034
Lenin float at the 1976 parade for the 59th anniversary of the Revolution, Moscow, USSR -- Daily LIFT #1034
Michael Laxer
Sep 17, 20231 min read


Novorossiysk: Hero City of the USSR, liberated Sept. 16 1943
Malaya Zemlya Memorial From a folder of historic cards published in 1985 on the 40th anniversary of the victory of the USSR in the Great...
Michael Laxer
Sep 16, 20232 min read


Economic Growth in G7 Versus BRICS: A Reality Check
By Richard D. Wolff In the United Kingdom, the BBC prepared and published data from the International Monetary Fund (IMF) in January...
Michael Laxer
Sep 7, 20235 min read


Speech by Fidel Castro at the 4th Conference of Nonaligned Nations, Sept. 7, 1973
Castro at the conference, September 7, 1973 On September 7, 1973 Fidel Castro gave a speech at the 4th Conference of Nonaligned Nations...
Michael Laxer
Sep 7, 202311 min read


Daily LIFT #1026
A Red Train in Samarkand, painting, Vladimir Anderson, USSR --Daily LIFT #1026 In the fifth year of the Revolution, along the ancient...
Michael Laxer
Sep 6, 20231 min read


Daily LIFT #1025
Red Star Over Moscow, image for the 60th anniversary of the Revolution, Soviet Life magazine, 1977 -- Daily LIFT #1025 We...assert that...
Michael Laxer
Sep 5, 20231 min read


Remembering W.E.B. Du Bois, scholar, civil rights activist, historian and communist: Video
W.E.B. Du Bois, the scholar, civil rights activist, historian and communist was born in 1868 in Massachusetts. He died on August 27, 1963...
Michael Laxer
Aug 27, 20231 min read


Daily LIFT #1016
Soviet Pioneers in the Latvian SSR, 1985 -- Daily LIFT #1016 The Soviet Pioneers began more modestly with large events and rallies along...
Michael Laxer
Aug 24, 20231 min read


Video: A Visit to Soviet Frunze
During the Soviet era the capital of the Kirghiz SSR was Frunze. Frunze was named after the Bolshevik revolutionary leader Mikhail Frunze...
Michael Laxer
Aug 24, 20231 min read


A Visit to Soviet Frunze, 1970
During the Soviet era the capital of the Kirghiz SSR was Frunze. Frunze was known as "The City of Green Leaves" due to the fact that the...
Michael Laxer
Aug 24, 20231 min read


Red Army wins the Battle of Kursk August 23, 1943: Video
Today marks the anniversary of the end of the Battle of Kursk (August 23, 1943) where the soldiers of the Red Army emerged victorious at...
Michael Laxer
Aug 23, 20231 min read


Daily LIFT #1012
Ho Chi Minh visiting the Lenin Mausoleum in Moscow, July 16, 1957 -- Daily LIFT #1012
Michael Laxer
Aug 20, 20231 min read


Daily LIFT #1011
Ho Chi Minh at a children's summer camp in the Turkmen SSR, USSR, summer 1959 -- Daily LIFT #1011
Michael Laxer
Aug 18, 20231 min read


Soviet Moscow's Bird Market for pets: A visit in August, 1968
From USSR Magazine, August 1968: Every Sunday. despite spring floods or autumn rain winter frost or summer heat. Muscovites of all ages...
Michael Laxer
Aug 15, 20233 min read


Daily LIFT #1008
Students visiting the Lenin Museum in Moscow, USSR 1967 -- Daily LIFT #1008 By 1967 30 million people from around the world had visited...
Michael Laxer
Aug 14, 20231 min read


Sevastopol: Hero City of the USSR
Red Army troops in action during the liberation of Sevastopol From a folder of historic cards published in 1985 on the 40th anniversary...
Michael Laxer
Aug 14, 20232 min read


Daily LIFT #1007
Don't Waste a Moment!, Lenin sketch, USSR c. 1960 -- Daily LIFT #1007
Michael Laxer
Aug 13, 20231 min read


Buses and trams of the Soviet Union: A look at public transit in the USSR, 1976
In October, 1976 the French magazine La vie du rail -- a magazine for railway and transit enthusiasts -- published a fascinating look at...
Michael Laxer
Aug 11, 20239 min read


Daily LIFT #1005
"It's Time", autolithography, Nikolai Nikolaevich Zhukov, USSR 1959 -- Daily LIFT #1005 From the Great Soviet Encyclopedia, 1979: Nikolai...
Michael Laxer
Aug 10, 20231 min read


Daily LIFT #1003
One of the sculpted reliefs at the base of the Monument to the Conquerors of Space, Moscow USSR, 1967 -- Daily LIFT #1003
Michael Laxer
Aug 8, 20231 min read
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