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Michael Laxer
Jan 17, 20221 min read
Daily LIFT #626
Still from a film showing Lenin saying good-by to American economist Parley P. Christensen after a talk in the Kremlin, 1921 -- Daily...
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Michael Laxer
Jan 16, 20221 min read
Daily LIFT #625
Khrushchev, Mao and Ho Chi Minh share a drink, 1959 -- Daily LIFT #625
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Michael Laxer
Jan 16, 20221 min read
Daily LIFT #624
Hammer and Sickle at a Leningrad housing complex c. 1985 -- Daily LIFT #624
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Michael Laxer
Jan 13, 20221 min read
Daily LIFT #623
Che Guevara gives a speech during a visit to the DPRK, December 1960 -- Daily LIFT #623
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Michael Laxer
Jan 12, 20221 min read
Daily LIFT #622
"The philosophers have only interpreted the world in various ways; the point, however, is to change it." - Karl Marx, Soviet collage by...
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Michael Laxer
Jan 10, 20221 min read
Daily LIFT #621
Lenin doing volunteer work during a Subbotnik, Moscow, May 1, 1920 -- Daily LIFT #621 You can read more about this at: Three...
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Michael Laxer
Jan 9, 20221 min read
Daily LIFT #620
Gorky and Lenin in conversation, sketch USSR 1947 -- Daily LIFT #620
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Michael Laxer
Jan 7, 20221 min read
Daily LIFT #619
Soviet artist Pyotr Vasilyev at work in his Moscow studio, 1947 -- Daily LIFT #619 Vasilyev (1899 – 1975) was a famed Soviet artist known...
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Michael Laxer
Jan 6, 20221 min read
Daily LIFT #618
Lenin on a Speaker's Platform, Alexandr Gerasimov (1881-1963), USSR 1930 Also know as Lenin on a Tribune, this painting by Gerasimov was...
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Michael Laxer
Jan 4, 20221 min read
Daily LIFT #617
Marxism-Leninism the Guiding Star of Workers and Working People All Over the World, Soviet poster, 1961 -- Daily LIFT #617
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Michael Laxer
Jan 3, 20221 min read
Daily LIFT #616
Ho Chi Minh on a visit to a Soviet children's camp, August 1957 -- Daily LIFT #616
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Michael Laxer
Dec 31, 20211 min read
Daily LIFT #615
Glory to the Union of Soviet Republics, Soviet New Year's card, 1972 -- Daily LIFT #615 From All of Us at The Left Chapter to Our...
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Michael Laxer
Dec 30, 20211 min read
Daily LIFT #614
Forward, to the victory of Communism!, Soviet poster -- Daily LIFT #614 Today is the anniversary of the formation of the USSR, December...
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Michael Laxer
Dec 29, 20211 min read
Daily LIFT #613
Meeting of the Petrograd Soviet, October 22 1917, just three days before the Revolution -- Daily LIFT #613
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Michael Laxer
Dec 28, 20211 min read
Daily LIFT #612
Ho Chi Minh and other members of the Politburo finalize plans for the 1968 Tet Offensive and uprising, a turning point in the Vietnam...
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Michael Laxer
Dec 27, 20211 min read
Daily LIFT #611
Ho Chi Minh during his trip to the People's Republic of Bulgaria, August 1957 -- Daily LIFT #611
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Michael Laxer
Dec 25, 20211 min read
Daily LIFT #610
Gymnasts perform during the USSR-USA track and field meet in Moscow, summer 1958 -- Daily LIFT #610 The meet was held in front of 60,000...
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Michael Laxer
Dec 24, 20211 min read
Daily LIFT #609
A celebration of the season around a giant holiday tree, Moscow USSR, 1957 -- Daily LIFT #609 From all of us at The Left Chapter to all...
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Michael Laxer
Dec 23, 20211 min read
Daily LIFT #608
1941, painting Viktor Ni (1934-1979), USSR 1969 -- Daily LIFT #608 Haunting artistic evocation of the start of the Great Patriotic War in...
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Michael Laxer
Dec 22, 20211 min read
Daily LIFT #607
Red Army cavalry in the early days of the civil war -- Daily LIFT #607 Comrades, by your labor and sacrifice you have saved the cause of...
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