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The creation of the first workers’ state was a "beacon of hope for the workers of the world"
Statement from the Workers' Party of Ireland. The 100th anniversary of the creation of the world's first workers' and socialist state was...
Michael Laxer
Jan 7, 20234 min read


2022: The year in review on The Left Chapter
Chris Smalls speaks 2022 is done and what a complicated year it was. There was the imperialist war in Ukraine, the uprising in...
Michael Laxer
Jan 2, 20237 min read


Daily LIFT #859
Happy New Year!, Soviet New Years Card -- Daily LIFT #859 From All of Us at The Left Chapter to Our Readers, Contributors and Comrades:...
Michael Laxer
Dec 31, 20221 min read


A sword is not our emblem: How the seal of the USSR was designed
On the 100th anniversary of the formation of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics -- the world's first workers' and socialist state --...
Michael Laxer
Dec 30, 20223 min read


We salute the centenary of the founding of the USSR - Communist Party of Chile
Symbol of the Communist Party of Chile -- Image via party's website Today is the 100th anniversary of the formation of the Union of...
Michael Laxer
Dec 30, 20222 min read


Daily Lift #858
Maxim Gorky Portrait, 1929 Oil On Canvas, Isaak Brodsky, USSR Maxim Gorky Wheat grows tall in the earth, and a man dies, But the long...
Michael Laxer
Dec 29, 20221 min read


Daily LIFT #856
"Everything for the good of humanity, for the sake of humanity.", Soviet poster 1977 -- Daily LIFT #856 What is Soviet power? What is the...
Michael Laxer
Dec 27, 20222 min read


Vasily Zaitsev instructs other Soviet snipers, Stalingrad, December 1942
Vasily Zaitsev (far left) instructs other Soviet snipers, Stalingrad, December 1942 Vasily Zaitsev is perhaps the most famous of all the...
Michael Laxer
Dec 17, 20221 min read


Founding of USSR marked the greatest state-political achievement of the revolutionary working class
March in celebration of the anniversary of the Bolshevik Revolution, Moscow USSR, 1971 The 100th anniversary of the formation of the...
Michael Laxer
Dec 13, 20224 min read


Daily LIFT #848
The Motherland Calls memorial complex in Volgograd (Stalingrad), USSR c. 1975 -- Daily LIFT #848
Michael Laxer
Dec 10, 20221 min read


Steadfast in the defence of the contribution of the USSR
The tour-de-force speech to a teleconference of the European Communist Initiative about the anniversary, Dimitris Koutsoumpas, General...
Michael Laxer
Dec 6, 202220 min read


Daily LIFT #845
Science Mural, USSR, 1976 -- Daily LIFT #845
Michael Laxer
Dec 5, 20221 min read


Daily LIFT #843
From the height of the port crane, USSR 1974, oil on canvas, Rudolf Nikolaevich Baranov -- Daily LIFT #843 Widely regarded as one of the...
Michael Laxer
Dec 2, 20221 min read


Daily LIFT #842
Soviet partisans, Grandfather and Grandson, USSR 1942 -- Daily LIFT #842
Michael Laxer
Nov 30, 20221 min read


Armenian SSR formed, November 29, 1920
Emblem of the Armenian Soviet Socialist Republic, formed November 29, 1920 From USSR Magazine, November 1964: November 29, 1920. The...
Michael Laxer
Nov 29, 20221 min read


Daily LIFT #838
Workers of the World Unite! -- Karl Marx poster, USSR 1968 -- Daily LIFT #838
Michael Laxer
Nov 24, 20221 min read


Republics of the USSR - 16 postcard images
The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, the world's first workers' state, was comprised of 15 separate socialist republics until the...
Michael Laxer
Nov 24, 20221 min read


Daily LIFT#837
Marx Bust, USSR -- Daily LIFT #837
Michael Laxer
Nov 23, 20221 min read


Daily LIFT #834
Fragment of the memorial complex to the fighters who fell for the power of the Soviets, Omsk, USSR 1971 -- Daily LIFT#834
Michael Laxer
Nov 15, 20221 min read


Soviet Minsk, 1968: 45 color photos
Published in 1968, this tourist photo book had 44 attached full color photos as well as a panoramic one that was its inside cover. Minsk...
Michael Laxer
Nov 15, 20223 min read
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