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Daily LIFT #419
Workers casting metal for military production in besieged Leningrad, 1942 -- Daily LIFT #419 Under exceptionally difficult circumstances...
Michael Laxer
Mar 23, 20211 min read


Daily LIFT #409
The Barrow of Glory, USSR 1969 -- Daily LIFT #409 Located 21 kilometers outside of Minsk on the Moscow Highway, the Barrow of Glory was...
Michael Laxer
Mar 11, 20211 min read


The Fairy Tale Cafes of the USSR -- Vintage Cookbook TBT
with the Nikstukas Cocktail and Potato Horns The photo above is of the Solnyshko (Baby Sun) Café in the far northern Soviet city of...
Michael Laxer
Mar 11, 20212 min read


Krupskaya with the North Caucus delegates at the All-Union Women's Congress, 1927
Photos of Revolutionary Russia #50 Krupskaya with the North Caucus delegates at the All-Union Women's Congress, 1927 -- Photos of...
Michael Laxer
Mar 10, 20211 min read


Soviet Pioneers event, 1930
Photos of Revolutionary Russia #49 Mass Soviet Pioneers rally, 1930 -- Photos of Revolutionary Russia #49 A large event of the Soviet...
Michael Laxer
Mar 9, 20211 min read


Daily LIFT #408
Space Will Serve People, Gagarin poster, USSR 1971 -- Daily LIFT #408 Yuri Gagarin, the first man in space, was born March 9, 1934. A...
Michael Laxer
Mar 9, 20211 min read


Yuri Gagarin, First Man in Space, born March 9, 1934
"Having rounded the Earth in a satellite spaceship, I have seen how beautiful our planet is. Let us preserve and multiply this beauty,...
Michael Laxer
Mar 9, 20211 min read


Daily LIFT #407
Internationalism, Peace & Justice! -- Daily LIFT #407 International Women's Day Poster Lithuanian SSR, c. 1985
Michael Laxer
Mar 8, 20211 min read


Daily LIFT #406
The Yuri Gagarin Monument, Moscow USSR 1981 -- Daily LIFT #406
Michael Laxer
Mar 7, 20211 min read


Tram lines converge in Strastnaya Square, Moscow 1928
Photos of Revolutionary Russia #46 Tram lines converge in Strastnaya Square, Moscow 1928 -- Photos of Revolutionary Russia #46 New tram...
Michael Laxer
Mar 6, 20211 min read


Soviet Kaluga 1974 -- Images of the city of Tsiolkovsky
Kaluga is a mid-sized city (pop. approximately 300,000) located about 100 miles southwest of Moscow that is best known for being the...
Michael Laxer
Mar 3, 20212 min read


Daily LIFT #403
International Workers' Day festivities, V.I. Lenin Square, Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk, Sakhalin Island, USSR 1973 -- Daily LIFT #403
Michael Laxer
Mar 2, 20211 min read


Daily LIFT #401
Nadezhda Krupskaya and Clara Zetkin at the Third All-Russia Conference on Preschool Education, Moscow, 1926 -- Daily LIFT #401 Zetkin,...
Michael Laxer
Feb 27, 20211 min read


The first tractor arrives in the Red Rifleman Commune, Smolensk region, 1929
Photos of Revolutionary Russia #40 The first tractor arrives in the Red Rifleman Commune, Smolensk region, 1929 -- Photos of...
Michael Laxer
Feb 27, 20211 min read


"We are for the collective farm!"
Photos of Revolutionary Russia #39 "We are for the collective farm!" -- Photos of Revolutionary Russia #39 The farmers of the village of...
Michael Laxer
Feb 26, 20211 min read


Daily LIFT #400
A team of tractor drivers visit Krupskaya's office in Moscow, 1935 -- Daily LIFT #400 Nadezhda Krupskaya stanch revolutionary, Marxist...
Michael Laxer
Feb 26, 20211 min read


Daily LIFT #399
Che and Yuri Gagarin share a laugh -- Daily LIFT #399 Wonderful photo of Che and Gagarin. It is not dated but is likely from 1964 in...
Michael Laxer
Feb 25, 20211 min read


Gorky and plant director I. A. Likhachev outside the Moscow Automotive Plant, 1928
Photos of Revolutionary Russia #36 Gorky and plant director I. A. Likhachev outside the Moscow Automotive Plant, 1928 -- Photos of...
Michael Laxer
Feb 23, 20211 min read


Grand opening of the Shaturskaya power plant, 1925
Photos of Revolutionary Russia #35 Grand opening ceremony for the Shaturskaya power plant -- Photos of Revolutionary Russia #35 The...
Michael Laxer
Feb 21, 20211 min read


Campaign to end homelessness for children and youth, USSR 1924
Photos of Revolutionary Russia #34 Campaign to end homelessness for children and youth, USSR 1924 -- Photos of Revolutionary Russia #34...
Michael Laxer
Feb 20, 20211 min read
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