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Michael Laxer
Jan 25, 20211 min read
Daily LIFT #380
Lenin's Ideas Live and Win!, Poster, USSR 1977 -- Daily LIFT #380
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Michael Laxer
Jan 21, 20213 min read
Lenin: "It is doubtful if in all history any man's hand left as deep a mark upon the world."
Editorial from The Liberator Magazine in honour of Lenin's death January 21, 1924 V. I. Lenin makes a speech at the funeral of Sverdlov....
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Michael Laxer
Jan 20, 20211 min read
Amílcar Cabral, assassinated January 20, 1973
"In our present historical situation...there are only two possible paths for an independent nation: to return to imperialist domination...
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Michael Laxer
Jan 7, 20211 min read
Daily LIFT #364
Lenin in the courtyard of the Kremlin, 1919 -- Daily LIFT #364 This photo of Lenin was brought out of Soviet Russia by American leftist...
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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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Michael Laxer
Dec 27, 20202 min read
Leningrad in winter, 1978
A look at some of the sights of a snowy Leningrad, 1978. This charming folder of 12 winter postcard images of Leningrad was released in...
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Michael Laxer
Dec 26, 20201 min read
Daily LIFT#354
The world's largest Lenin bust at Ulan-Ude, USSR 1973 -- Daily LIFT #354 The largest Lenin bust that was ever erected was unveiled in the...
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Michael Laxer
Dec 24, 20201 min read
Daily LIFT #353
Lenin visits the children at the Sokolniki Holiday Tree, People’s Artist of the RSFSR and People’s Artist of the USSR Nikolai Zhukov...
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Michael Laxer
Dec 15, 20201 min read
Daily LIFT #348
- V. I. Lenin and Yakov Sverdlov on Red Square during a demonstration of workers dedicated to the first anniversary of the Great October...
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Michael Laxer
Dec 8, 20201 min read
Revolutionary artist Diego Rivera, b. December 8, 1886
Mexican artist, muralist and leftist Diego Rivera was born December 8, 1886. His remarkable murals included famous revolutionary figures...
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Michael Laxer
Nov 20, 20201 min read
Daily LIFT #329
Stamp featuring portraits of Marx & Lenin, Mongolian People's Republic, 1973 -- Daily LIFT #329
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Michael Laxer
Nov 2, 20201 min read
Daily LIFT #317
Lenin in the Vortex of Revolution. portrait sketch, 1969, Nikolai Zhukov (1908-1973) -- Daily LIFT #317 One of Zhukov's many famous...
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Michael Laxer
Oct 26, 20201 min read
Daily LIFT #312
Lenin addresses the Third World Congress of the Communist International, Moscow, 1921 -- Daily LIFT #312
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Michael Laxer
Oct 19, 20201 min read
Daily LIFT #307
Celebrations in Ulyanovsk, birthplace of Lenin, in honour of the centenary of Lenin's birth, USSR, 1970 -- Daily LIFT #307
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Michael Laxer
Oct 17, 20201 min read
Daily LIFT #306
Monument to Lenin, Khabarovsk, USSR 1975 -- Daily LIFT #306
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Michael Laxer
Oct 17, 20201 min read
John Reed's final dispatches from Soviet Russia
Today is the anniversary of the death of John Reed, American communist and revolutionary journalist most famous for his magnificent...
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