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Lenin in Literature
Article by Vladimir Shcherbina, Soviet Literary Critic, that appeared in USSR Magazine, April, 1948. Soviet writers find in great Lenin a...

The Left Chapter
Apr 124 min read


Daily LIFT #1606
Leningrad tourist poster, 1933 -- Daily LIFT #1606
Michael Laxer
Apr 101 min read


Daily LIFT #1562
Lenin Speaking, illustration, P. Vasiliev, USSR 1940s -- Daily LIFT #1562 A drawing of Lenin as he offered his famous resolution before...

The Left Chapter
Apr 61 min read


Soviet memorials must be defended. Treaties are to be respected.
Defending Soviet memorials also means showing up in large numbers on May 8 and9 - Photo: Little Polar Bear 2015 / Wikimedia Commons / CC...

The Left Chapter
Apr 57 min read


YaAZ-210G Truck - Vintage vehicle cards of the USSR #2
From the original Soviet card (translated): YaAZ-210G Truck (1951-1958) Three-axle truck. Machine with two-stroke six-cylinder diesel...
Michael Laxer
Apr 41 min read


MTB-82 Trolleybus - Vintage vehicle cards of the USSR #1
From the original Soviet card (translated): VEHICLE MTB-82 (1946-1961) was the main city trolleybus in the post-war period. Electric...
Michael Laxer
Mar 301 min read


Daily LIFT #1595
Workers of the world, unite!, poster, Yakov Guminer, poster, USSR 1926 -- Daily LIFT #1595 Sadly, poster artist Guminer died during the...
Michael Laxer
Mar 281 min read


Employment and Labour in the USSR, 1983
Image from a Soviet stamp From the Soviet English language magazine Socialism: Principles, Practice, Prospects, July 1983: Citizens of...

The Left Chapter
Mar 283 min read


Daily LIFT #1593
"Time, March On!", illustration, A. Rudkovich, USSR 1986 -- Daily LIFT #1593
Michael Laxer
Mar 261 min read


Kennedy files reveal that the CIA had an informant in the neo-Nazi NPD in the 1960s
Adolf von Thadden (1921-1996), NSDAP member, parliamentarian (member of the Bundestag and Bundesrat), and head of the NPD, known since...

The Left Chapter
Mar 263 min read


Daily LIFT #1592
Hammer & Sickle illustration, USSR, 1986 -- Daily LIFT #1592
Michael Laxer
Mar 251 min read


Daily LIFT #1586
The Lenin Monument outside the Novosibirsk Institute of Electrical Engineering, Novosibirsk, USSR 1982 -- Daily LIFT #1586
Michael Laxer
Mar 161 min read


"Socialism is a necessity of our time": Portuguese Communist Party on the global struggle of the workers and peoples
Capitalism was not the initial system, nor is it the terminal system, in Humankind’s History. Its revolutionary overcoming and the...
Michael Laxer
Mar 1220 min read


Daily LIFT #1580
The Victory of Communism is Inevitable. Communism Will Triumph - Lenin, poster, Y. Solovyov, USSR c. 1984 -- Daily LIFT #1580
Michael Laxer
Mar 91 min read


Daily LIFT #1578
The Log Jam, painting, Veniamin Kushner, Ukrainian SSR, USSR late 1950s -- Daily LIFT #1578
Michael Laxer
Mar 51 min read


Daily LIFT #1577
End of the Shift, painting Vilen Chekanyuk, Ukrainian SSR, USSR late 1950s -- Daily LIFT #1577
Michael Laxer
Mar 41 min read


Daily LIFT #1576
Lenin Hills Station on the Moscow Metro, USSR 1960 -- Daily LIFT #1576 "Lenin Hills Station is built on a bridge across the Moscow River...
Michael Laxer
Mar 31 min read


Daily LIFT #1575
Two engineering students at the Moscow Construction Engineering Institute share a New Year's Eve toast to ring in 1958 in the USSR --...
Michael Laxer
Mar 21 min read


Moscow Metro builders: Tatyana Fedorova's brigade
A brigade of construction workers building the Moscow Metro. They were led by Tatiana Fedorova who is on the left holding the jackhammer....
Michael Laxer
Mar 26 min read


Soviet Moscow's Metro, 1960
From USSR Magazine, January 1960: A METRO ride is one of the sightseeing musts for a tourist in Moscow. Its stations are not the dismal...
Michael Laxer
Feb 283 min read
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