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Michael Laxer
Jun 86 min read
Lenin: Portrait of a new type of leader
An interesting and powerful portrait of Lenin's personality from the Soviet journal Kommunist in 1984. Everyone who was in close contact...
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Michael Laxer
Jun 71 min read
Daily LIFT #1366
Krupskaya with delegates at the Red Women's Congress in Moscow, 1928 -- Daily LIFT #1366
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Michael Laxer
May 131 min read
Daily LIFT #1344
Lenin and Krupskaya, painting, Viktor Nikolaevich Pegov USSR -- Daily LIFT #1344
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Michael Laxer
Feb 271 min read
Daily LIFT #1181
Nadezhda Krupskaya and Lenin with their cat -- Daily LIFT #1181
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Michael Laxer
Jan 217 min read
They knew Lenin
Lenin Proclaims Soviet Power, painting V. Serov On the 100th anniversary of the death of Lenin we look at recollections of the great...
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Michael Laxer
Aug 28, 20231 min read
Daily LIFT #1019
Lenin leaving the First All-Russian Congress on Education in Moscow, August 28, 1918 -- Daily LIFT #1019 In the background Krupskaya can...
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Michael Laxer
May 12, 20223 min read
Lenin in Stockholm, 1917
Images of Lenin #48 Lenin in Stockholm with a group of Russian political emigres returning from Switzerland to Russia in 1917 -- Images...
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Michael Laxer
Apr 29, 20221 min read
"Draveil, near Paris", 1967
Images of Lenin #37 "Draveil, near Paris", painting F. Longuet, France 1967 -- Images of Lenin #37 The house where Lenin and Krupskaya...
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Michael Laxer
Apr 13, 20221 min read
Lenin in Paris, 1910
Images of Lenin #25 Lenin in Paris, 1910 -- Images of Lenin #25 To learn more about Lenin's stay in Paris see our post: Lenin and...
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Michael Laxer
Mar 27, 20221 min read
Lenin and Krupskaya in Gorki, 1922
Images of Lenin #11 Lenin and Krupskaya in Gorki, 1922 -- Images of Lenin #11 Lenin and Krupskaya with Lenin's sister Anna Elizarova and...
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Michael Laxer
Feb 26, 20225 min read
Nadezhda Krupskaya, b. February 26, 1869
"I am very happy that I experienced the revolution. I love the work I am doing. I had a wonderful personal life. If I were to begin life...
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Michael Laxer
Jan 8, 20223 min read
A talk with Lenin: An American in Moscow, 1921
An account of the visit of progressive American economist and former presidential candidate Parley Christensen to meet Lenin in Moscow,...
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Michael Laxer
Dec 29, 20215 min read
Lenin: Three historic photos and their stories
During the centennial year of Lenin's birth, 1970, Mikhail Yeryomin, a retired Soviet Major-General who was then working for the...
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Michael Laxer
Nov 27, 20217 min read
Three reminiscences of Lenin
Remembrances of Lenin's return from exile in 1900, his Subbotnik work in 1920 and his love of music, written by his sister, the maid he...
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Michael Laxer
Oct 20, 202110 min read
Lenin and Krupskaya in Paris
An account of Lenin and Krupskaya in exile in Paris (1910-1911) by fellow Bolshevik exile Serafima Hopner. A Soviet stamp showing one of...
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Michael Laxer
Aug 16, 202118 min read
Artek: The vast Soviet internationalist complex of children's camps
An in-depth look at the Soviet Artek Pioneer youth camp, a sprawling internationalist complex of ten sub-camps and various facilities...
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Michael Laxer
Jul 5, 20211 min read
Daily LIFT #489
Lenin and Krupskaya with a telescope in the village of Gorky, 1922 -- Daily LIFT #489
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Michael Laxer
Apr 22, 20216 min read
Lenin in London
“The immensity of London staggered us. Although the weather was filthy the day we arrived, Vladimir Ilyich brightened up at once and...
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Michael Laxer
Mar 10, 20211 min read
Krupskaya with the North Caucus delegates at the All-Union Women's Congress, 1927
Photos of Revolutionary Russia #50 Krupskaya with the North Caucus delegates at the All-Union Women's Congress, 1927 -- Photos of...
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Michael Laxer
Jan 5, 20211 min read
Daily LIFT #362
V. I. Lenin, N. K. Krupskaya, A. I. Elizarova, M. I. Ulyanova, D. I. Ulyanov and G. Loegachev in the Kremlin apartment of V. I. Lenin....
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