w. Shashlyk (Lamb Skewers), Sputnik Croquettes, Beef Filet & Bozbash Echmiadzinsky (Lamb Soup) An Armenian hors d'oeuvres platter This...

Hero of the Soviet Union Guards Major Malik Gabdulin at his home near Alma- Ata , capital of Kazakhstan, USSR February 1944. Major...

General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, Leonid Brezhnev, Moscow 1975 -- Daily LIFT #645

Feng Jing of China at the Southern Pole of Inaccessibility (POI) January 25, 2020 -- Image via Twitter In an amazing story that got far...

Fidel Castro visits the Murmansk fish factory, USSR 1963 -- Daily LIFT #644

Monument to the Fighters of the Revolution of 1917, Saratov, USSR 1972 -- Daily LIFT #642

Tanks of the column " For Soviet Estonia", February 1944 -- Daily LIFT #641 Built with funds collected by evacuated Estonian citizens,...

VIVA! - Soviet-Cuban friendship poster -- Daily LIFT #639

The two remarkable documents republished here are from the first anniversary of the February 2, 1943 victory. A street in Stalingrad just...

Order of the Red Banner, conferred on the Komsomol (Communist Youth) in 1928 for courage in action at the front in the Civil War, USSR --...

Soviet guerilla commanders plan operations behind the lines, January 1944 -- Daily LIFT #636 The commanders of the guerilla unit, all...

Tanks produced in Leningrad factories drive straight to the front down the Nevsky Prospekt to try to break the siege, January 1943 --...

Roza Shanina, born 3 April 1924, grew up in a large working class family in a small town outside of Arkhangelsk. Her parents had named...

A woman embraces a soldier with joy on the day the Siege of Leningrad was lifted, January 27, 1944 -- Daily LIFT #634 On January 27, 1944...

w. Moscow Borsch, Ukrainian Borsch, Borsch with Dried White Mushrooms and Prunes, Summer Borsch and Cold Beetroot Soup. Stock photo These...

As we have noted before, the 1960s was arguably the beginning of a "Golden Age" in the history of the USSR as it launched into an era of...

Crowds assemble at the Kremlin Palace of the Congresses for a showing of The Defiant Ones during the Third Moscow International Film...

Hammer and Sickle at a Leningrad housing complex c. 1985 -- Daily LIFT #624

"The philosophers have only interpreted the world in various ways; the point, however, is to change it." - Karl Marx, Soviet collage by...

The Party of Labour of Austria looks back at the catastrophe that was the collapse of the USSR and Socialist Bloc in this exceptional...