Michael LaxerApr 21 min readDaily LIFT #1209John Reed Red Russia ad, Liberator Magazine, USA 1918 -- Daily LIFT #1209
Michael LaxerJan 217 min readThey knew LeninLenin Proclaims Soviet Power, painting V. Serov On the 100th anniversary of the death of Lenin we look at recollections of the great...
Michael LaxerNov 1, 20231 min readDaily LIFT #1079John Reed portrait, Hugo Gellert 1930 -- Daily LIFT #1079 Hugo Gellert was a member of the Communist Party in the United States who rose...
Michael LaxerOct 30, 20231 min readDaily LIFT #1078Ten Days That Shook the World, illustration William Siegal, USA October, 1930 -- Daily LIFT #1078
Michael LaxerOct 18, 20238 min readJohn Reed: Eyewitness to revolutionA short look at the life of John Reed, famed American leftist writer who chronicled the events of the Russian Revolution in his famed...
Michael LaxerApr 4, 20221 min readTen Days That Shook the World Lenin illustration, 1958Images of Lenin #17 "V.I. Lenin" illustration from a Rumanian edition of John Reed's Ten Days That Shook the World, J. Perahim, Rumania...
Michael LaxerMar 4, 20211 min readDaily LIFT #4041919 advertisement for John Reed's classic "Ten Days That Shook the World" -- Daily LIFT #404 The ad was definitely correct that his...
Michael LaxerOct 17, 20201 min readJohn Reed's final dispatches from Soviet RussiaToday is the anniversary of the death of John Reed, American communist and revolutionary journalist most famous for his magnificent...