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Daily LIFT #1572
Lenin at a Mass Rally, sketch, P. Vasiliev USSR -- Daily LIFT #1572
Michael Laxer
Feb 241 min read


The coming of the collective farms in the USSR
From the Soviet English language magazine Socialism: Principles, Practice, Prospects, 1983. The late twenties was a turbulent time for...
Michael Laxer
Feb 232 min read


Daily LIFT #1571
Lenin Statue, Riga, Latvian SSR, USSR 1985 -- Daily LIFT #1571
Michael Laxer
Feb 221 min read


Daily LIFT #1570
The Rich Steppe, painting, Buryat Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic, USSR 1959 -- Daily LIFT #1570
Michael Laxer
Feb 211 min read


Daily LIFT #1569
Old Tiflis, oil on canvas, Elena Akhvlediani (1900-1976), USSR 1927 -- Daily LIFT #1569
Michael Laxer
Feb 201 min read


Daily LIFT #1567
Hammer and Sickle sculpture outside the USSR Pavilion at Expo 67 in Montreal -- Daily LIFT #1567 To learn more about the USSR at Expo 67:...
Michael Laxer
Feb 171 min read


Daily LIFT #1566
Sunny Landscape, oil on canvas, Martiros Saryan, USSR 1923 -- Daily LIFT #1566 This wonderful combination of abstract and landscape art...
Michael Laxer
Feb 151 min read


Daily LIFT #1565
Transport Returning to Normal (After the Revolutionary Civil War), oil on panel, Boris Yakovlev, USSR 1923 -- Daily LIFT #1565
Michael Laxer
Feb 141 min read


Daily LIFT #1556
Vocational school students in the USSR, 1972 -- Daily LIFT #1556 The young men at top were training to become bakers while the young...
Michael Laxer
Feb 21 min read


Rehabilitation and rebirth in the postwar USSR
A brief, illustrated look at the remarkable Soviet recovery in the wake of the utter devastation of WWII. One of the most remarkable...
Michael Laxer
Feb 22 min read


Soviet Health Service, 1984
Out on Call The right of Soviet citizens to health care is laid down in the Constitution of the USSR. All forms of medical care are free...
Michael Laxer
Feb 11 min read


Daily LIFT #1555
Georgy Malenkov, Ho Chi Minh and Mao on a Vietnamese stamp, 1954 -- Daily LIFT #1555 Fascinating stamp from when Malenkov was briefly...
Michael Laxer
Feb 11 min read


Daily LIFT #1553
Yuri Gagarin taking out the Komsomol Banner at the closing ceremony of the XIV Komsomol Congress, April 1962 -- Daily LIFT #1553 Image...
Michael Laxer
Jan 291 min read


Message of Remembrance for the Victims of the Holocaust - NCPY
Diego Delso, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons New Communist Party of Yugoslavia, Message of Remembrance for the Victims of the...
Michael Laxer
Jan 272 min read


Daily LIFT #1550
Vladimir Chiciherov, (3rd from left), Hero of Socialist Labour, USSR, 1984, with his team at the Leningrad Metallichesky Zavod production...
Michael Laxer
Jan 271 min read


Communist Party of the Soviet Union 1983: Facts and Figures
Lenin illustration, USSR 1984 From the Soviet Press, 1983: In 1983, the Communist Party of the Soviet Union marked its 80th anniversary....
Michael Laxer
Jan 264 min read


Daily LIFT #1545
Enamel Lenin Medallion for the 100th anniversary of Lenin's birth, Latvian SSR, USSR 1970 -- Daily LIFT #1445
Michael Laxer
Jan 201 min read


Declaration of the People's Unity Against Imperialism -- Anti-Imperialist Front
Image from an anti-imperialist poster, People's Republic of China Anti-Imperialist Front In a speech given by U.S. President Truman in...
Michael Laxer
Jan 194 min read


Cultural Revolution in the USSR
The 1928 Literacy courses on a cooperative farm in the Voronezh Region (Central Russia) From Socialism: Principles, Practice, Prospects...
Michael Laxer
Jan 185 min read


Daily LIFT #1543
NATO: A Threat to Peace, poster, USSR 1984 -- Daily LIFT #1543 Remains true.
Michael Laxer
Jan 171 min read
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