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Michael Laxer
Sep 28, 20243 min read
The Red Banner of the USSR
A look at the history and symbolism of the Red Banner of the USSR from the September, 1982 issue of Socialism: Principles, Practice,...
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Michael Laxer
Sep 21, 20245 min read
A look at the All-Union Leninist Young Communist League of the USSR
A young woman is admitted into the Komsomol in Norilsk, USSR 1960s - Vsevolod Tarasevich, CC BY 4.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses...
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Michael Laxer
Sep 18, 20241 min read
Arnaldo Tamayo Méndez goes into space, 18 September, 1980
On September 18, 1980 after extensive training in the Soviet Union as part of the Soviet internationalist Interkosmos program, Arnaldo...
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Michael Laxer
Sep 17, 20249 min read
"A historic legacy for a struggle that continues": On the 100th anniversary of the birth of AmÃlcar Cabral
Paulo Raimundo, General Secretary of the PCP at the event -- image via the PCP September 12 marked the 100th anniversary of the birth of...
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Michael Laxer
Sep 10, 20244 min read
The Surprising Ways Inventions and Ideas Spread in Ancient Prehistory
You can learn a lot about humanity from the first technological revolutions of more than 10,000 years ago. By Brenna R. Hassett, Human...
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Michael Laxer
Sep 9, 20242 min read
Autumn Harvest Uprising begins, September 9, 1927
An artistic representation of Mao at the head of the uprising. Mao Zedong led a peasant and military insurrection that began on September...
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Michael Laxer
Sep 8, 20246 min read
Keys to Building Human Bridges to the Past
Human technologies have continued to evolve exponentially since the end of the Paleolithic: today we are using them to learn more about...
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Michael Laxer
Sep 7, 20245 min read
The Spartakiads of the peoples of the USSR
Opening ceremonies of the Second Spartakiad of the Peoples of the USSR, Moscow, August 1959. The Spartakiad was a festival of amateur,...
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Michael Laxer
Sep 5, 20241 min read
Xiang Xiuli, Young Hero of the People's Republic of China
From a poster series of the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution: Xiang Xiuli was born in 1933 into a poor working-class family in...
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Michael Laxer
Sep 3, 20242 min read
Communist Party of the Soviet Union, 1980
Stamp for the XXVI congress of the CPSU, 1981, From the Soviet Press in 1981, a brief look at the Communist Party of the Soviet Union...
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Michael Laxer
Sep 2, 20243 min read
The Congress of the Peoples of the East, September 1920
Between September 1 and September 7, 1920, The Congress of the Peoples of the East called by the Communist International (Comintern) was...
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Michael Laxer
Aug 31, 20242 min read
Salaspils and the "Ost" plan
From a folder of historic cards published in 1985 on the 40th anniversary of the victory of the USSR in the Great Patriotic War we...
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Michael Laxer
Aug 30, 20242 min read
Fred Hampton born, August 30, 1948
The great revolutionary and freedom fighter, Fred Hampton, was born August 30, 1948. A leader of the Black Panthers he was murdered by...
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Michael Laxer
Aug 28, 20247 min read
Panoramic Soviet Moscow 1971 -- 21 Images
From a postcard packet published in the USSR in 1971, here we are sharing 21 panoramic images of the Soviet capital, some with our text...
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Michael Laxer
Aug 25, 20245 min read
Homemade Car Rallies of the USSR w. the Amphibious Ichtyandr
Through the 70s and into the 80s amateur homemade car rallies were held in the USSR in which ordinary citizens built their own vehicles...
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Michael Laxer
Aug 24, 20247 min read
Knight of the Revolution: Felix Dzerzhinsky
A look at the life, times and thinking of the great Bolshevik revolutionary Felix Dzerzhinsky from a 1967 issue of Soviet Life magazine:...
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Michael Laxer
Aug 22, 20243 min read
UNEAC: 63 Years of Culture and Commitment
When talking about the Union of Writers and Artists of Cuba on the anniversary of its formation, tribute must be paid to the beautiful...
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Michael Laxer
Aug 21, 20246 min read
Engels: "We are now approaching a social revolution"
The Engels statue in Manchester -- travelmag.com , CC BY 2.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0>, via Wikimedia Commons An...
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Michael Laxer
Aug 20, 20245 min read
75 years ago, the KKK and anti-communists teamed up to violently stop a folk concert in NY
Rioters during the attacks in Peekskill By Nina Silber, Professor of History, Boston University Few Americans today know about the events...
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Michael Laxer
Aug 18, 20246 min read
Ernst Thälmann, killed August 18, 1944
Ernst Thälmann, leader of the Communist Party of Germany (KPD), addresses a mass rally in Berlin, May, 1931 The working class stalwart,...
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