Michael Laxer
Daily LIFT #996
Learn from the Soviet Union! Speed the Socialist Industrialization of Our Country!, People's Republic of China, 1954 -- Daily LIFT #996 A...
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Michael Laxer
- Jul 30
- 15 min
Battle of Kursk remembered, July 1983
Marshals of the Soviet Union remember the great triumph of the Red Army in July-August 1943 that ended all Nazi hopes for victory on the...
Michael Laxer
- Jul 29
- 1 min
Daily LIFT #995
Å Ä·aune Memorial to the Red Army Soldiers and Partisans at the Warriors' Cemetery, Å Ä·aune, Latvian SSR, USSR 1978 -- Daily LIFT #995 A...
Michael Laxer
- Jul 27
- 2 min
The Revolution in Moscow, 1917
Storming of the Kremlin in 1917, painting K. Yuon From the USSR in 1957 -- 40 years after the world changing events of 1917 -- some...
Michael Laxer
- Jul 25
- 1 min
Daily LIFT #992
Defenders of the Fortress of Brest, painting P. Krivonogov, USSR 1951 -- Daily LIFT #992 Pyotr Aleksandrovich Krivonogov (1910-1967), a...
Michael Laxer
- Jul 25
- 1 min
Svetlana Savitskaya, Soviet Cosmonaut, first woman to perform a spacewalk July 25, 1984
Svetlana Savitskaya, Soviet cosmonaut (born August 8, 1948). After an award winning career in aerobatics Savitskaya was the the second...
Michael Laxer
- Jul 25
- 2 min
B.B. King in the USSR, 1979
B.B. King toured the USSR in the spring of 1979 and played to huge and very appreciative crowds in Moscow, Leningrad, Baku, Yerevan, and...
Michael Laxer
- Jul 23
- 1 min
Daily LIFT #990
Collective farmer holding her son, Uzbek SSR, USSR 1957 -- Daily LIFT #990 She is proudly displaying her medals for socialist labour...
Michael Laxer
- Jul 21
- 1 min
Daily LIFT #988
A Soviet engineer discusses issues of railway bridge construction with Chinese engineers, People's Republic of China, 1951 -- Daily LIFT...
Michael Laxer
- Jul 18
- 1 min
Daily LIFT #986
Union of Workers and Peasants, poster N.I. Kravchenko, USSR 1925 -- Daily LIFT #986
Michael Laxer
- Jul 15
- 2 min
Odessa: Hero City of the USSR
From a folder of historic cards published in 1985 on the 40th anniversary of the victory of the USSR in the Great Patriotic War we...
Michael Laxer
- Jul 13
- 1 min
Daily LIFT #982
Fidel Castro leads a delegation to lay a wreath at the Lenin Mausoleum during his visit to Moscow, USSR for the 27th Congress of the...
Michael Laxer
- Jul 12
- 1 min
Daily LIFT #981
National-State Structure of the USSR, 1984 -- Daily LIFT #981
Michael Laxer
- Jul 11
- 4 min
W.E.B. Du Bois in the People's Republic of China, 1959
Premier Zhou Enlai with Du Bois and his wife the writer Shirley Graham (third from left). First and second from right are Vice-Premier...
Michael Laxer
- Jul 7
- 2 min
Mao and Latin American party leaders, 1959
Remarkable photo shows Mao, Chairman of the Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party, meeting the leaders of the fraternal...
Michael Laxer
- Jul 3
- 2 min
Minsk: Hero City of the USSR
Mound of Glory war memorial just outside Minsk From a folder of historic cards published in 1985 on the 40th anniversary of the victory...
Michael Laxer
- Jun 30
- 10 min
Tribunes of the Revolution: Mikhail Frunze -- Civil War General
From the June 1976 issue of Soviet Life magazine we republish this look at the life of the great early Soviet military and revolutionary...
Michael Laxer
- Jun 22
- 2 min
Kiev: Hero City of the USSR
Soviet troops crossing the Dnieper, November 1943 From a folder of historic cards published in 1985 on the 40th anniversary of the...
Michael Laxer
- Jun 21
- 1 min
Daily LIFT #966
"… And at the Pacific Ocean They have ended their campaign", painting D. P. Dmitriev (1925-1980), USSR. From a series called "Songs of...
Michael Laxer
- Jun 16
- 1 min
Valentina Tereshkova stamp -- Stamps of the GDR #35
Valentina Tereshkova stamp -- Stamps of the GDR #35 On June 16, 1963 Vostok VI, piloted by Soviet Valentina Tereshkova, the world's first...
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