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Daily LIFT #602
Proletarians of All Countries Unite! Communist and Workers’ Parties Will Develop International Cooperation and Solidarity On the...
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Michael Laxer
Dec 13, 20211 min read
This is the way! - Photos of palaces expropriated by the Bolsheviks for workers
During the Bolshevik revolution and the creation of socialism in the USSR, the grand palaces and estates of the nobility and ruling class...
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Michael Laxer
Dec 6, 20211 min read
Daily LIFT #595
International Women's Day march, Moscow, USSR 1924 -- Daily LIFT #595 After the Bolshevik Revolution International Women's Day was made a...
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Michael Laxer
Dec 5, 20211 min read
Daily LIFT #594
Soviet soldiers man an air defense gun in Moscow during the Battle of Moscow. In the background can be seen the famous socialist realist...
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Michael Laxer
Dec 5, 20215 min read
Red Army stops the Nazis at the gates of Moscow, Dec. 5 1941
On December 5, 1941 the Red Army launched a counter-offensive against the Nazi invaders at the very gates of Moscow. This was totally...
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Michael Laxer
Dec 4, 20211 min read
Daily LIFT #593
The Emblems of the Union of Soviet Republics, 1923 -- Daily LIFT #593 Published on May Day 1923 an illustration that appeared in an organ...
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Michael Laxer
Dec 2, 20211 min read
Daily LIFT #592
Young Swimmers, Yuri Raksha 1979, USSR -- Daily LIFT #592 Born December 2, 1937, Soviet artist Yuri Raksha's remarkable career in art and...
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Michael Laxer
Nov 30, 20211 min read
Daily LIFT #590
Hero City of Novorossiysk, Monument to Soldiers, USSR 1979 -- Daily LIFT #590 The city of Novorossiysk on the Black Sea was a prominent...
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Michael Laxer
Nov 27, 20211 min read
Daily LIFT #589
Soviet Industry, sketch, Hugo Gellert, USA 1941 -- Daily LIFT #589 A sketch released by Hugo Gellert when the Soviet Union was invaded in...
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Michael Laxer
Nov 26, 20211 min read
Daily LIFT #588
Entrance to the Soviet Pavilion at the Brussel's World Fair, 1958 -- Daily LIFT #588
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Michael Laxer
Nov 23, 20213 min read
Remembering Uncle Lenin
A sketch of Lenin with children A remembrance of Lenin by his nephew, Victor Ulyanov published in English by the Soviet magazine USSR in...
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Michael Laxer
Nov 20, 20211 min read
Daily LIFT #583
Lenin Monument, Moscow, USSR 1985 -- Daily LIFT #583
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Michael Laxer
Nov 13, 20215 min read
Queen of the cabbies of Soviet Kiev, 1982
An interesting piece of Soviet social and transportation history, this brief article takes a look at the life and work of a taxi driver...
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Michael Laxer
Nov 9, 20211 min read
Daily LIFT #575
Karl Marx statue, Moscow USSR, 1971 -- Daily LIFT #575
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Michael Laxer
Nov 9, 20213 min read
Solidarity with Cuba: WG of the International Meeting of Communist and Workers' Parties
The Working Group of the International Meeting of Communist and Workers' Parties (IMCWP) met virtually on November 5 & 6 releasing...
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Michael Laxer
Nov 7, 20213 min read
Daily LIFT #573
A spectre is haunting Europe - the spectre of Communism! -- Daily LIFT #573 In honour of the 104th anniversary of the Russian Revolution...
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Michael Laxer
Nov 6, 20219 min read
Soviet 1960: A year in the life of the USSR in pictures
1960 was arguably the beginning of a "Golden Age" in the history of the USSR as it launched into an era of rapid development socially,...
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Michael Laxer
Nov 5, 20211 min read
Daily LIFT #571
Castro and Brezhnev meet with future cosmonauts at the Yuri Gagarin Cosmonauts Training Centre, 1972 -- Daily LIFT #571
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Michael Laxer
Nov 3, 20211 min read
Daily LIFT #570
A very young Yuri Gagarin at Lyubertsy trade school, USSR, learning foundry work, 1951 -- Daily LIFT #570 From the Soviet press, 1961:...
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Michael Laxer
Nov 3, 20213 min read
Soviet Gomel 1976: 13 Soviet Postcards
This packet of 13 postcards of Gomel was released in 1976 just a few years after the city celebrated its 730th anniversary. Gomel, in the...
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