With recipes for Buckwheat and Wheatflour Bliny. From Sputnik Magazine, USSR 1988: Lovely round bliny, glistening and hot, like the...

A brief look. Revolutionary Committee of the Yakutian Soviet, 1921 From the Great Soviet Encyclopedia 1979: Yakut Autonomous Soviet...

People line up in Red Square, Moscow USSR to visit the Lenin Mausoleum, spring 1983 -- Daily LIFT #1001

Worker and Kolkhoz Woman, Moscow USSR, 1967, monumental sculpture by Vera Mukhina -- Daily LIFT #1000 Also known as Worker and Collective...

Monument to Hero of the Soviet Union Imants Sudmalis, Liepaja, Latvian SSR, USSR 1978 -- Daily LIFT #997 From the Great Soviet...

Learn from the Soviet Union! Speed the Socialist Industrialization of Our Country!, People's Republic of China, 1954 -- Daily LIFT #996 A...

Marshals of the Soviet Union remember the great triumph of the Red Army in July-August 1943 that ended all Nazi hopes for victory on the...

Šķaune Memorial to the Red Army Soldiers and Partisans at the Warriors' Cemetery, Šķaune, Latvian SSR, USSR 1978 -- Daily LIFT #995 A...

Storming of the Kremlin in 1917, painting K. Yuon From the USSR in 1957 -- 40 years after the world changing events of 1917 -- some...

Defenders of the Fortress of Brest, painting P. Krivonogov, USSR 1951 -- Daily LIFT #992 Pyotr Aleksandrovich Krivonogov (1910-1967), a...

Svetlana Savitskaya, Soviet cosmonaut (born August 8, 1948). After an award winning career in aerobatics Savitskaya was the the second...

B.B. King toured the USSR in the spring of 1979 and played to huge and very appreciative crowds in Moscow, Leningrad, Baku, Yerevan, and...

Collective farmer holding her son, Uzbek SSR, USSR 1957 -- Daily LIFT #990 She is proudly displaying her medals for socialist labour...

A Soviet engineer discusses issues of railway bridge construction with Chinese engineers, People's Republic of China, 1951 -- Daily LIFT...

Union of Workers and Peasants, poster N.I. Kravchenko, USSR 1925 -- Daily LIFT #986

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...

Fidel Castro leads a delegation to lay a wreath at the Lenin Mausoleum during his visit to Moscow, USSR for the 27th Congress of the...

National-State Structure of the USSR, 1984 -- Daily LIFT #981

Premier Zhou Enlai with Du Bois and his wife the writer Shirley Graham (third from left). First and second from right are Vice-Premier...

Remarkable photo shows Mao, Chairman of the Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party, meeting the leaders of the fraternal...