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Sparta Knit-Goods Factory / For Our Homeland -- Tales of Soviet Women Workers for Peace, 1951 #8
From the Soviet Press, 1951 Image: The women Stakhanovites of the Sparta Knit-Goods Factory in Vilnius, the capital of the Lithuanian...

The Left Chapter
Jul 152 min read


Daily LIFT #1677
College Graduates, painting R. Slyotov, USSR c. 1953 -- Daily LIFT #1677 In the background is the magnificent Moscow State University...

The Left Chapter
Jul 111 min read


Daily LIFT #1676
Maria Vlasova, Soviet crane operator, 1953 -- Daily LIFT #1676 From the Soviet Press: If anybody asks Marla Vlasova what her job is, she...

The Left Chapter
Jul 101 min read


Daily LIFT #1675
The New Building of the Moscow State University on Lenin Hills, illustration I. Grinstein, USSR 1953 -- Daily LIFT #1675 This magnificent...

The Left Chapter
Jul 91 min read


GAZ (ZIM) 12 - Vintage vehicle cards of the USSR #8
From the original Soviet card (translated): GAZ-12 (1949-1959) The first Soviet passenger car with a hydraulic clutch and two working...

The Left Chapter
Jul 91 min read


Riga's Children & Doves / Estonian Composer - Tales of Soviet Women Workers for Peace, 1951 #7
From the Soviet Press, 1951 Image : Lydia Auster, the Estonian composer, serves the cause of peace through the medium of her art. Her...

The Left Chapter
Jul 92 min read


Daily LIFT #1674
American soldiers swim across the Elbe to greet their Soviet allies. A still from the 1949 Soviet film "Meeting on the Elbe". -- Daily...

The Left Chapter
Jul 81 min read


YaAZ/MAZ-200 Truck - Vintage vehicle cards of the USSR #7
From the original Soviet card (translated): YaAZ-200 (1947-1965): The first Soviet diesel truck of serial production. Engine capacity -...

The Left Chapter
Jun 261 min read


Daily LIFT #1662
Soviet Pioneers at the tomb of the Unknown Sailor in the Crimea, c. 1975 -- Daily LIFT #1662 They are paying tribute to Soviet sailors...

The Left Chapter
Jun 231 min read


May First Cannery / All-Out Effort - Tales of Soviet Women Workers for Peace, 1951 #6
From the Soviet Press, 1951 Image: Shift forewoman P. I. Zabrodskaya (left), deputy to the City Soviet of Working People’s Deputies, and...
Michael Laxer
Jun 202 min read


Daily LIFT #1657
Vostok 5 & Vostok 6 stamp, People's Republic of Bulgaria 1963 -- Daily LIFT #1657 On June 14, 1963, the USSR launched Vostok 5 with...

The Left Chapter
Jun 161 min read


The Eleventh World Festival of Youth and Students, Cuba, Freedom Island, 1978
A short look at the festival from the Soviet magazine STP. From the Soviet press, 1985: The Republic of Cuba, the first socialist state...

The Left Chapter
Jun 92 min read


Daily LIFT #1652
A Young Pioneer Parade in Red Square, 1982 -- Daily LIFT #1652 From the Soviet Press: On May 19, 1982 the Leninist All-Union Young...

The Left Chapter
Jun 81 min read


GAZ-M20 "Pobeda" -- Vintage vehicle cards of the USSR #6
From the original Soviet card (translated): GAZ-20 Pobeda (1946-1958) The first domestic passenger car with a monocoque body. It was...

The Left Chapter
Jun 81 min read


Daily LIFT #1649
Performance at the XIX Congress of the The All-Union Leninist Young Communist League (Komsomol) in the Kremlin Palace, Moscow, USSR, 1982...

The Left Chapter
Jun 31 min read


For Life and Happiness - Tales of Soviet Women Workers for Peace, 1951 #5
From the Soviet Press, 1951 Maria Smirnova A new tractor with a shining coat of fresh paint comes off the conveyor. And as I watch it my...

The Left Chapter
Jun 32 min read


ALBA-TCP honours the legacy of Maurice Bishop
On May 29 ALBA-TCP (the Bolivarian Alliance for the Peoples of Our America – Peoples' Trade Treaty) issued a statement honouring...

The Left Chapter
May 311 min read


Imperialism's strategy of confrontation and aggression -- PCP
The Portuguese Communist Party on imperialism, EU and NATO militarism, US tariffs, Gaza, the war in Ukraine, anti-Communist historical...

The Left Chapter
May 304 min read


Daily LIFT #1643
Welcome to the Tajik SSR -- Illustration, USSR 1987 -- Daily LIFT #1643

The Left Chapter
May 261 min read


On the Undermining of Austrian Neutrality - PdA
70 years of the Austrian State Treaty Declaration of the Central Committee of the Party of Labour of Austria (PdA) on the 70th...

The Left Chapter
May 264 min read
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