Michael Laxer
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....
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...
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...
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...
Michael Laxer
Feb 17, 20221 min read
Daily LIFT #652
V. I. Lenin Square -- Stavropol, USSR 1972 -- Daily LIFT #652
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...
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
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...
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...
Michael Laxer
Jan 9, 20221 min read
Daily LIFT #620
Gorky and Lenin in conversation, sketch USSR 1947 -- Daily LIFT #620
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,...
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...
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...
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
Michael Laxer
Dec 30, 20217 min read
USSR formed, December 30 1922: A look at its founding congress and decades of progress
Cover of Soviet Life Magazine in honour of the 60th anniversary of the formation of the USSR, December 1982 Today marks the anniversary...
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...
Michael Laxer
Dec 21, 20212 min read
Lenin: Four rare photos
Published in the Soviet press for the 100th anniversary of Lenin's birth (April 1970) these were four photographs of Lenin that had been...
Michael Laxer
Dec 17, 20211 min read
Daily LIFT #603
Lenin Explains the Tasks Ahead of the Young Soviet State at Revolutionary Headquarters, USSR 1958 -- Daily LIFT #603
Michael Laxer
Dec 17, 20212 min read
Artistic views of the October Revolution
The Revolution Has Been Carried Out by Boris Ioganson "Boris loganson in his The Revolution Has Been Carried Out painted Lenin announcing...
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