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The Civil War, 1928
Images of Lenin #57 The Civil War, Vladimir Favorsky, engraving on wood, USSR 1928 -- Images of Lenin #57 Vladimir Favorsky (1886-1964)...
Michael Laxer
May 23, 20221 min read
Daily LIFT #716
Portrait of F. Zhelyuk, twice a Hero of Socialist Labour, Ukrainian SSR, Mikhail Antonchik artist USSR, 1975 -- Daily LIFT #716 Antonchik...
Michael Laxer
May 23, 20221 min read
October, 1917
Images of Lenin #56 October 1917, Vladimir Favorsky, engraving on wood, USSR 1928 -- Images of Lenin #56 Vladimir Favorsky (1886-1964)...
Michael Laxer
May 22, 20221 min read
Daily LIFT #715
Cotton growers of collective farm "Tajikistan", Ilya Rakhnaev, Oil on canvas, USSR 1975 -- Daily LIFT #715
Michael Laxer
May 22, 20221 min read
Lenin and the Red Guards, 1967
Images of Lenin #55 Lenin and the Red Guards, D. Bisti, USSR 1967 -- Images of Lenin #55 This is the fifty-fifth in our daily feature...
Michael Laxer
May 21, 20221 min read
12 works by Soviet artist Aleksandr Deineka, b. May 20, 1899
One of the Soviet Union's greatest socialist realist artists, Aleksandr Deineka (sometimes translated as Deyneka) was born in Kursk, May...
Michael Laxer
May 20, 20224 min read
Lenin Working Underground, E. Kibrik, USSR 1947
Images of Lenin #54 V. I. Lenin Working Underground, drawing, Evgenii Kibrik, USSR 1947 -- Images of Lenin #54 From the Great Soviet...
Michael Laxer
May 19, 20222 min read
V. I. Lenin autographed sketch, I. Brodsky, 1920
Images of Lenin #53 V. I. Lenin sketch, I. Brodsky, 1920. The sketch was autographed by Lenin -- Images of Lenin #53 Isaak Brodsky, was...
Michael Laxer
May 18, 20221 min read
Daily LIFT #713
Forward to Communism, Viktor Koretskii, poster USSR 1947 -- Daily LIFT #713 Koretskii, (also sometimes translated as Koretsky), an...
Michael Laxer
May 18, 20221 min read
Daily LIFT #710
The City of the Future, Alexander Labas USSR, 1935 -- Daily LIFT #710 Labas was a Soviet avant-garde artist whose works were popular in...
Michael Laxer
May 13, 20221 min read
The terrible price of victory: A brief look at the sacrifices of the USSR in WWII
Today on May 9 -- Victory Day in the former USSR as it was on this day in 1945 that the Soviets formally accepted the German surrender --...
Michael Laxer
May 9, 20227 min read
Daily LIFT #706
We Stand for Peace, Soviet peace poster, 1950 -- Daily LIFT #706
Michael Laxer
May 8, 20221 min read
Daily LIFT #702
Hammer and Sickle Monument honouring the 50th anniversary of Soviet power at the Montreal Expo, 1967 -- Daily LIFT #702 To learn more...
Michael Laxer
May 3, 20221 min read
V. I. Lenin Sketch, N. Altman 1920
Images of Lenin #41 V. I. Lenin sketch, Nathan Altman, 1920 -- Images of Lenin #41 Nathan Altman (b. 1889) was a prominent Soviet artist...
Michael Laxer
May 3, 20221 min read
Children's Railway of Stalingrad, 1949
In early May 1948 -- only just over 5 years after the end of the devastating battle for the city and 3 years after the end of the Second...
Michael Laxer
May 3, 20223 min read
Daily LIFT #701
International Workers' Day Poster, USSR 1963 -- Daily LIFT #701
Michael Laxer
May 1, 20221 min read
USSR at Expo 67
55 years after the historic Montreal Expo a look at the Soviet pavilion. On April 27, 1967 Expo 67 opened in Montreal. The Expo was...
Michael Laxer
Apr 30, 202210 min read
Armenia - Martiros Saryan
Armenia - Oil on Canvas, Martiros Saryan, 1923 This wonderful combination of abstract and landscape art was painted one of the most...
Michael Laxer
Apr 22, 20221 min read
Daily LIFT #693
Ho Chi Minh taking a motor boat ride, USSR 1959 -- Daily LIFT #693
Michael Laxer
Apr 19, 20221 min read
Daily LIFT #692
Editorial Department Building of the CP Central Committee of Uzbekistan Publishing House and the branch of the Lenin Central Museum,...
Michael Laxer
Apr 18, 20221 min read
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