Michael Laxer
"You ought to be ashamed of yourselves": Paul Robeson stands up against McCarthyism June 12, 1956
On June 12, 1956 the great American singer, actor, athlete, Communist and all-around Renaissance man Paul Robeson appeared before the...
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Michael Laxer
- Jun 6
- 3 min
Aram Khachaturian, Soviet Armenian Composer b. June 6, 1903
Aram Khachaturian meets Che in the USSR, 1960 Aram Khachaturian -- widely regarded as one of the Soviet Union's greatest composers -- was...
Michael Laxer
- Jun 4
- 2 min
Stalingrad: Hero City of the USSR
The Motherland Calls Memorial Complex, Volgograd (Stalingrad), USSR From a folder of historic cards published in 1985 on the 40th...
Michael Laxer
- Jun 2
- 1 min
Daily LIFT #954
Quartz-lamp treatment in the nursery of the Segezh Paper Mills, Karelo-Finnish SSR, USSR 1953 -- Daily LIFT #954 Trippy looking photo of...
Michael Laxer
- Jun 1
- 1 min
Daily LIFT #953
Lenin Monument in Ulyanovsk, USSR 1976 -- Daily LIFT #953
Michael Laxer
- Jun 1
- 3 min
Praskovia Angelina: Hero of Socialist Labor
Praskovia Angelina (also Praskov’ia Nikitichna Angelina) (1913-1959) From Soviet Women, 1953: The collective farm system has produced a...
Michael Laxer
- May 31
- 1 min
Daily LIFT #952
Three People's Deputies of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR, 1953 -- Daily LIFT #952 U.S.S.R. Supreme Soviet deputies (left to right):...
Michael Laxer
- May 30
- 1 min
Daily LIFT #951
Monument to the Red Army Soldiers Who Died Defending the Caucuses, Gagra, USSR 1966 -- Daily LIFT #951
Michael Laxer
- May 20
- 2 min
Motorball: The Soviet sport you have probably never heard of
Motorball (sometimes also called Motoball) is a sport that apparently was invented in France in 1934 but that became most popular in the...
Michael Laxer
- May 19
- 2 min
Leningrad -- Hero City of the USSR
Soviet artillery in action during the siege of Leningrad From a folder of historic cards published in 1985 on the 40th anniversary of the...
Michael Laxer
- May 17
- 1 min
Daily LIFT #943
Drawings from Soviet school children first published in May, 1924 -- Daily LIFT #943 1. Cleaning away snow. 2 Village Agitator. 3. In the...
Michael Laxer
- May 9
- 1 min
Daily LIFT #937
Moscow Victory Celebration, May 9 1945, painting by B. V. loganson, USSR -- Daily LIFT #937
Michael Laxer
- May 9
- 7 min
Moscow -- Hero City of the USSR
"Your Name is Unknown, Your Feat is Immortal" -- Image from the Battle of Moscow From a folder of historic cards published in 1985 on the...
Michael Laxer
- May 9
- 5 min
Honouring the Great Anti-fascist Victory of the Peoples, May 9 1945
With statements from the Communist parties of Greece and Turkey as well as the Workers' Party of Ireland Soviet postcard graphic...
Michael Laxer
- May 8
- 1 min
Daily LIFT #936
Long Live the United Front of the Freedom-Loving Peoples Against the Fascist Invaders!, Soviet war poster, 1942 -- Daily LIFT #936 Poster...
Michael Laxer
- May 5
- 1 min
Marx and Engels
Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, Sketch, L. V. Kozlov, USSR 1973 Karl Marx was born May 5, 1818. From a Soviet postcard blurb about Marx &...
Michael Laxer
- Apr 25
- 3 min
"When the people decide to do so"
Image from KKE headquarters in Greece On April 21 the Communist Party of Greece (KKE) released an English language translation of an...
Michael Laxer
- Apr 24
- 1 min
Daily LIFT #927
Friends - P. P. Parhet, USSR 1947 -- Daily LIFT #927 One of the more evocative and emotionally powerful pieces of Soviet military art....
Michael Laxer
- Apr 21
- 1 min
Daily LIFT #925
Proletarians of All Countries Unite! -- painting, L. V. Kozlov, USSR 1973
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