Michael Laxer
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
May 143 min read
The character of capitalism
Vladimir Lenin at the 2nd Congress of the RSDLP in 1903, painting, Sergei Arsenevich Vinogradov Back in 1903 the Russian...
Michael Laxer
Mar 2410 min read
She dedicated herself to the Revolution: The story of Jeanne-Marie Labourbe
A look at the courageous life and terrible execution of French Bolshevik revolutionary Jeanne-Marie Labourbe (1877-1919) who worked among...
Michael Laxer
Oct 26, 20238 min read
Here They Are! - Lenin at the YCL Congress, October 1920
Lenin Speaks at the 3rd Young Communist League (YCL) Congress, October 1920 - painting B. Johanson, USSR "THE CIVIL WAR was still raging...
Michael Laxer
Oct 18, 20238 min read
John Reed: Eyewitness to revolution
A short look at the life of John Reed, famed American leftist writer who chronicled the events of the Russian Revolution in his famed...
Michael Laxer
Sep 9, 20231 min read
Daily LIFT #1028
First International Communist Chinese Detachment, Revolutionary Civil War, Soviet Russia 1918 -- Daily LIFT #1028 Well before the...
Michael Laxer
Aug 7, 20235 min read
The Yakut Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic
A brief look. Revolutionary Committee of the Yakutian Soviet, 1921 From the Great Soviet Encyclopedia 1979: Yakut Autonomous Soviet...
Michael Laxer
Jul 27, 20232 min read
The Revolution in Moscow, 1917
Storming of the Kremlin in 1917, painting K. Yuon From the USSR in 1957 -- 40 years after the world changing events of 1917 -- some...
Michael Laxer
Jul 10, 20233 min read
First Soviet constitution adopted July 10, 1918
The first socialist constitution in human history created by and for the working class was adopted for the newly formed Russian Soviet...
Michael Laxer
Jun 28, 20237 min read
Bolshevik decree nationalizing industry and transportation June 28, 1918
In one of the most significant, and world altering, revolutionary moments in human history, on June 28, 1918 -- in the face of the forces...
Michael Laxer
May 7, 20235 min read
April Conference of the Bolsheviks begins May 7, 1917
Lenin at the April Conference of the RSDLP (b), painting Pyotr Dmitrievich Buchkin (1886-1965), USSR The tremendously important April...
Michael Laxer
Apr 18, 20232 min read
All Power to the Soviets! -- The April slogan of the Bolsheviks that changed the world
All Power to Soviets, oil on canvas, V. Ladyzhensky USSR 1972 From the Great Soviet Encyclopedia, 1979: All Power to the Soviets!...
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