VI Lenin in 1919, Oil, Dmitry Nalbandyan USSR 1957 -- Daily LIFT #829 Dmitry Nalbandyan was a full member of the USSR Academy of Arts,...

Monument to Lenin, Gomel USSR 1976 -- Daily LIFT #828 For more images from Soviet Gomel see Soviet Gomel 1976: 13 Soviet Postcards...

Lenin at the Electrification Map -- Mikhail Bozhyi (1911 - 1990), People's Artist of the Ukrainian SSR, Oil Painting, 1961 "After proving...

Stamp in honour of the launch of Sputnik 2, Czechoslovakia -- Daily LIFT #827 Sputnik 2, the second spacecraft to enter Earth's orbit was...

Monument to Karl Marx, Leningrad (bronze and stone) sculpture Nikolai Tomsky, USSR 1932 -- Daily LIFT #826 Nikolai Tomsky (sometimes...

In the collective farm headquarters, painting, Samuil Yakovlevich Adlivankin, USSR 1931 -- Daily LIFT #824

First published in October 1960, this is a fascinating, illustrated look at the history of Soviet stamps in the first forty-three years...

Published in Moscow in 1983 this folder of Soviet socialist realist art was actually aimed at children. It was a portfolio of works by...

Stamp in honour of the 22nd Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, 1961 -- Daily LIFT #820 Held between October 17-31,...

Big Bill Haywood at a rally in Moscow, USSR 1923 (Haywood is at lower left) -- Daily LIFT #816 Legendary IWW leader Haywood fled the...

Lenin Bust, USSR 1924 -- Daily LIFT #815

Study Communism!, Soviet poster -- Daily LIFT #813

The Lenin Children's Home in Orenburg After the devastation of the First World War, the triumph of the Bolshevik Revolution saw the lands...

Soviet EXPO 1970 stamp celebrating "Children's Creativity" -- Daily LIFT #810

"The Country of October is the Birthplace of Cosmonautics", Soviet poster On October 4, 1957, the Soviet Union stunned the world by...

Soviet May Day poster -- Daily LIFT #804

Soviet stamp in honour of the 100th anniversary of the birth of Georgi Plekhanov, 1956 From USSR Magazine, September 1963: "September 25,...

Fidel Castro enjoying a ride in the snow with some Soviet children during his 1963 trip to the USSR -- Daily LIFT #801

Glory to Soviet Athletes!, Soviet stamp. 1972 -- Daily LIFT #799 The stamp was issued to honour the first participation of the USSR in...

Peace to All Peoples!, poster, USSR 1982 -- Daily LIFT #797