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Michael Laxer
Mar 20, 20221 min read
V. I. Lenin
Images of Lenin #4 V.I. Lenin -- Siddigai, India 1970 -- Images of Lenin #4 This is the fourth in our new feature that will daily be...
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Michael Laxer
Mar 19, 20221 min read
Lenin Centennial Poster, DPRK 1970
Images of Lenin #3 Lenin Centennial Poster, Democratic People's Republic of Korea, 1970 -- Images of Lenin #3 This is the third in our...
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Michael Laxer
Mar 18, 20224 min read
Lenin speaks at the funeral of Yakov Sverdlov, March 18 1919
Lenin speaks at the funeral of Yakov Sverdlov, Moscow, March 18 1919 -- Daily LIFT #676 Sverdlov was chairman of the All-Russian Central...
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Michael Laxer
Mar 18, 20221 min read
Lenin in the presidium of the First Congress of the Third International
Images of Lenin #2 V.I. Lenin in the presidium of the First Congress of the Third International, Moscow, March 1919 "The Paris Commune --...
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Michael Laxer
Mar 17, 20221 min read
V.I. Lenin: The Leader of the Proletariat
Images of Lenin #1 V.I. Lenin: The Leader of the Proletariat -- P. Shillingovsky (1881-1942), etching USSR 1928 Shillingovsky was one of...
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Michael Laxer
Mar 14, 20221 min read
Daily LIFT #672
V.I Lenin and Karl Marx, sketch Mikhail Rundaltsov (1871-1935), USSR 1918 -- Daily LIFT #672 The Left Chapter has acquired a collection...
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Michael Laxer
Mar 13, 20221 min read
Daily LIFT #671
Lenin Statue at the DneproGES Dnieper Hydroelectric Station, Ukrainian SSR, USSR 1972
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Michael Laxer
Mar 12, 20222 min read
What is Soviet power? -- Lenin, March 1919
Lenin on new form of democratic organization. Lenin recording one of his three- minute series of speeches in the Kremlin, March 1919....
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Michael Laxer
Mar 10, 20226 min read
Che Guevara: 32 images from 1940-1967
Over the course of February we shared daily photos of Che Guevara, iconic revolutionary leader and hero. These came from a Soviet archive...
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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
Feb 23, 20228 min read
Red Army Day, 1944
Crossing the Dnieper - Woodcut, V. I. Masyk February 23 was Red Army Day in the former USSR. It celebrated the formation of the Red Army...
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Michael Laxer
Feb 17, 20221 min read
Daily LIFT #652
V. I. Lenin Square -- Stavropol, USSR 1972 -- Daily LIFT #652
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Michael Laxer
Feb 10, 20222 min read
Lenin at the Southern Pole of Inaccessibility!
Feng Jing of China at the Southern Pole of Inaccessibility (POI) January 25, 2020 -- Image via Twitter In an amazing story that got far...
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Michael Laxer
Jan 21, 20221 min read
Daily LIFT #630
Lenin Monument erected in the wake of the Great Patriotic War, Yerevan, Armenian SSR, USSR 1948 -- Daily LIFT #630
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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 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 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
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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