Yuri Gagarin (left) and M. Keldysh, President of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR (centre) present the cosmonauts of Voskhod 1 (...

A look at the deeply humanistic Soviet attitude towards housing in the early 1980s. Well-Built and Ahead of Schedule!, Soviet housing...

Peace for the Planet, Triptych, USSR 1982, Irina Chevereva & Vladimir Arlashin -- Daily LIFT #325

T-34 Tank Monument in Honour of the Mongolian Revolutionary Tank Brigade, Ulan Bator 1976 -- Daily LIFT #324 The 112th "Revolutionary...

Red Army troops march through Red Square on the 24th anniversary of the Great October Socialist Revolution, November 7, 1941 -- Daily...

If we want to celebrate 1917 we must also look more deeply at what came after. There is much to celebrate there as well. This piece was originally written to mark the 100th anniversary of the Great October Socialist Revolution. By Michael Laxer The counter-revolution in the Soviet Union was a catastrophe for the forces of socialism and anti-imperialism both within the USSR and its republics, and internationally, including here in the allegedly advanced capitalist west. Despit

"At dawn on November 6, 1943, on the eve of Great October, the Red Army has seized Kiev, the capital of Soviet Ukraine" - quote from a...

Vintage Cookbook TBT w. Mushrooms in Sour Cream, Mushroom Soup w. Barley, Pickled Mushrooms & Salted Mushrooms. In this departure from...

Lenin in the Vortex of Revolution. portrait sketch, 1969, Nikolai Zhukov (1908-1973) -- Daily LIFT #317 One of Zhukov's many famous...

Karl Marx at work in his study, charcoal drawing, USSR 1968 -- Daily LIFT #316

Canadian ad for Mezhdunarodnaya Kniga, a Soviet book and media distributor, 1966. What is really interesting is the list of various...

Cosmonaut #1, Yuri Gagarin, Mikhail Ananiev, USSR, 1963 -- Daily LIFT #315

Members of the Soviet delegation march with the hammer and sickle banner at Expo 67 in Montreal -- Daily LIFT #313

1967 Soviet advertisement for the Zaporozhets ZAZ aimed at the Canadian market. The ZAZ was the export model of this sturdy car built in...

Soviet stamp in honour of the International Year of the Calm Sun, 1964-65 -- Daily LIFT #210 In 1964-65 Soviet astronomers and scientists...

Fidel Castro and Nikita Khrushchev enjoy some Georgian wine, Georgian SSR, USSR, 1963 -- Daily LIFT #308

Celebrations in Ulyanovsk, birthplace of Lenin, in honour of the centenary of Lenin's birth, USSR, 1970 -- Daily LIFT #307

Monument to Lenin, Khabarovsk, USSR 1975 -- Daily LIFT #306

Che visits the cruiser Aurora, Leningrad, 1960 -- Daily LIFT #304 The Aurora, of course, fired the famous shot that was the signal to...

Rosa Luxemburg Square, Kharkiv, Ukrainian SSR 1975 -- Daily LIFT #302