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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
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...
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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
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...
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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
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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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Michael Laxer
Dec 16, 20211 min read
Daily LIFT #602
Proletarians of All Countries Unite! Communist and Workers’ Parties Will Develop International Cooperation and Solidarity On 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
Nov 23, 20213 min read
Remembering Uncle Lenin
A sketch of Lenin with children A remembrance of Lenin by his nephew, Victor Ulyanov published in English by the Soviet magazine USSR in...
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Michael Laxer
Nov 23, 20211 min read
Daily LIFT #585
Forward to the Victory of Communism!, poster, USSR 1960 -- Daily LIFT #585
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Michael Laxer
Nov 20, 20211 min read
Daily LIFT #583
Lenin Monument, Moscow, USSR 1985 -- Daily LIFT #583
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Michael Laxer
Nov 17, 20212 min read
Daily LIFT #580
Lenin with Workers on the Square, painting 1979 , Soviet Ukrainian artist Leonty Koshtelyanchuk -- Daily LIFT #580 The chief point which...
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Michael Laxer
Nov 15, 20212 min read
Daily LIFT #578
Vladimir Lenin in Smolny, painting Isaak Brodsky, USSR 1930 -- Daily LIFT #578 Of course, the proletarian revolution had to start from...
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Michael Laxer
Nov 8, 20211 min read
Daily LIFT #574
Lenin's Ideas Live and Win, Soviet poster 1970s -- Daily LIFT #574
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Michael Laxer
Nov 7, 20213 min read
Daily LIFT #573
A spectre is haunting Europe - the spectre of Communism! -- Daily LIFT #573 In honour of the 104th anniversary of the Russian Revolution...
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Michael Laxer
Nov 6, 20219 min read
Soviet 1960: A year in the life of the USSR in pictures
1960 was arguably the beginning of a "Golden Age" in the history of the USSR as it launched into an era of rapid development socially,...
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Michael Laxer
Oct 21, 20212 min read
Certain Features of the Historical Development of Marxism - Lenin
Cover of Certain Features of the Historical Development of Marxism, first published 1913, this edition USSR 1966 Excerpt from Lenin's...
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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
Oct 16, 20211 min read
Daily LIFT #556
Lenin going for a walk in the courtyard of the Kremlin, October 16, 1918 -- Daily LIFT #556 Lenin was recovering still from an...
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