Michael Laxer
Daily LIFT #1025
Red Star Over Moscow, image for the 60th anniversary of the Revolution, Soviet Life magazine, 1977 -- Daily LIFT #1025 We...assert that...
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Michael Laxer
- Aug 27
- 1 min
Remembering W.E.B. Du Bois, scholar, civil rights activist, historian and communist: Video
W.E.B. Du Bois, the scholar, civil rights activist, historian and communist was born in 1868 in Massachusetts. He died on August 27, 1963...
Michael Laxer
- Aug 24
- 1 min
Daily LIFT #1016
Soviet Pioneers in the Latvian SSR, 1985 -- Daily LIFT #1016 The Soviet Pioneers began more modestly with large events and rallies along...
Michael Laxer
- Aug 24
- 1 min
Video: A Visit to Soviet Frunze
During the Soviet era the capital of the Kirghiz SSR was Frunze. Frunze was named after the Bolshevik revolutionary leader Mikhail Frunze...
Michael Laxer
- Aug 24
- 1 min
A Visit to Soviet Frunze, 1970
During the Soviet era the capital of the Kirghiz SSR was Frunze. Frunze was known as "The City of Green Leaves" due to the fact that the...
Michael Laxer
- Aug 23
- 1 min
Red Army wins the Battle of Kursk August 23, 1943: Video
Today marks the anniversary of the end of the Battle of Kursk (August 23, 1943) where the soldiers of the Red Army emerged victorious at...
Michael Laxer
- Aug 20
- 1 min
Daily LIFT #1012
Ho Chi Minh visiting the Lenin Mausoleum in Moscow, July 16, 1957 -- Daily LIFT #1012
Michael Laxer
- Aug 18
- 1 min
Daily LIFT #1011
Ho Chi Minh at a children's summer camp in the Turkmen SSR, USSR, summer 1959 -- Daily LIFT #1011
Michael Laxer
- Aug 15
- 3 min
Soviet Moscow's Bird Market for pets: A visit in August, 1968
From USSR Magazine, August 1968: Every Sunday. despite spring floods or autumn rain winter frost or summer heat. Muscovites of all ages...
Michael Laxer
- Aug 14
- 1 min
Daily LIFT #1008
Students visiting the Lenin Museum in Moscow, USSR 1967 -- Daily LIFT #1008 By 1967 30 million people from around the world had visited...
Michael Laxer
- Aug 14
- 2 min
Sevastopol: Hero City of the USSR
Red Army troops in action during the liberation of Sevastopol From a folder of historic cards published in 1985 on the 40th anniversary...
Michael Laxer
- Aug 13
- 1 min
Daily LIFT #1007
Don't Waste a Moment!, Lenin sketch, USSR c. 1960 -- Daily LIFT #1007
Michael Laxer
- Aug 11
- 9 min
Buses and trams of the Soviet Union: A look at public transit in the USSR, 1976
In October, 1976 the French magazine La vie du rail -- a magazine for railway and transit enthusiasts -- published a fascinating look at...
Michael Laxer
- Aug 10
- 1 min
Daily LIFT #1005
"It's Time", autolithography, Nikolai Nikolaevich Zhukov, USSR 1959 -- Daily LIFT #1005 From the Great Soviet Encyclopedia, 1979: Nikolai...
Michael Laxer
- Aug 8
- 1 min
Daily LIFT #1003
One of the sculpted reliefs at the base of the Monument to the Conquerors of Space, Moscow USSR, 1967 -- Daily LIFT #1003
Michael Laxer
- Aug 7
- 3 min
Bliny, Soviet style!
With recipes for Buckwheat and Wheatflour Bliny. From Sputnik Magazine, USSR 1988: Lovely round bliny, glistening and hot, like the...
Michael Laxer
- Aug 7
- 5 min
The Yakut Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic
A brief look. Revolutionary Committee of the Yakutian Soviet, 1921 From the Great Soviet Encyclopedia 1979: Yakut Autonomous Soviet...
Michael Laxer
- Aug 5
- 1 min
Daily LIFT #1001
People line up in Red Square, Moscow USSR to visit the Lenin Mausoleum, spring 1983 -- Daily LIFT #1001
Michael Laxer
- Aug 4
- 5 min
Daily LIFT #1000
Worker and Kolkhoz Woman, Moscow USSR, 1967, monumental sculpture by Vera Mukhina -- Daily LIFT #1000 Also known as Worker and Collective...
Michael Laxer
- Jul 31
- 1 min
Daily LIFT #997
Monument to Hero of the Soviet Union Imants Sudmalis, Liepaja, Latvian SSR, USSR 1978 -- Daily LIFT #997 From the Great Soviet...
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