Michael Laxer
Daily LIFT #1008
Students visiting the Lenin Museum in Moscow, USSR 1967 -- Daily LIFT #1008 By 1967 30 million people from around the world had visited...
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Michael Laxer
Aug 13, 20231 min read
Daily LIFT #1007
Don't Waste a Moment!, Lenin sketch, USSR c. 1960 -- Daily LIFT #1007
Michael Laxer
Aug 12, 20232 min read
Daily LIFT #1006
Ceremony honouring the 90th anniversary of Lenin's birth, Moscow, USSR 1960 -- Daily LIFT #1006 Lenin's greatness and the tremendous...
Michael Laxer
Aug 10, 20231 min read
Daily LIFT #1005
"It's Time", autolithography, Nikolai Nikolaevich Zhukov, USSR 1959 -- Daily LIFT #1005 From the Great Soviet Encyclopedia, 1979: Nikolai...
Michael Laxer
Aug 5, 20231 min read
Daily LIFT #1001
People line up in Red Square, Moscow USSR to visit the Lenin Mausoleum, spring 1983 -- Daily LIFT #1001
Michael Laxer
Aug 3, 20231 min read
Daily LIFT #999
Li Chung-wen, commander of a People's Liberation Army unit and secretary of its Party committee, speaks at a meeting of Party committee...
Michael Laxer
Jul 28, 20231 min read
Daily LIFT #994
V. I. Lenin and Y. M. Sverdlov at the unveiling of a temporary monument to Marx and Engels, Moscow, November 7, 1918 -- Daily LIFT #994...
Michael Laxer
Jul 27, 20232 min read
The Revolution in Moscow, 1917
Storming of the Kremlin in 1917, painting K. Yuon From the USSR in 1957 -- 40 years after the world changing events of 1917 -- some...
Michael Laxer
Jul 26, 20231 min read
Daily LIFT #993
Communism is Soviet Power Plus the Electrification of the Whole Country, V. I. Lenin, poster, USSR 1957 -- Daily LIFT #993 This image is...
Michael Laxer
Jul 13, 20231 min read
Daily LIFT #982
Fidel Castro leads a delegation to lay a wreath at the Lenin Mausoleum during his visit to Moscow, USSR for the 27th Congress of the...
Michael Laxer
Jul 10, 20231 min read
Daily LIFT #979
Lenin with fellow Comrades and revolutionaries at a May Day rally in Red Square, Moscow 1919 -- Daily LIFT #979
Michael Laxer
Jul 8, 20231 min read
Daily LIFT #977
V. I. Lenin - Creator of the First Socialist State, drawing, Vladimir Noskov USSR 1982 -- Daily LIFT #977
Michael Laxer
Jun 30, 202310 min read
Tribunes of the Revolution: Mikhail Frunze -- Civil War General
From the June 1976 issue of Soviet Life magazine we republish this look at the life of the great early Soviet military and revolutionary...
Michael Laxer
Jun 28, 20231 min read
Daily LIFT #971
V.I. Lenin, sculpture Yu. Kolesnikov, USSR -- Daily LIFT #971
Michael Laxer
Jun 28, 20237 min read
Bolshevik decree nationalizing industry and transportation June 28, 1918
In one of the most significant, and world altering, revolutionary moments in human history, on June 28, 1918 -- in the face of the forces...
Michael Laxer
Jun 18, 20231 min read
Daily LIFT #964
Speech of Lenin at the III Congress of the Komsomol, painting USSR 1950, artists B. Ioganson, V. Sokolov, D. Tegin, collective work --...
Michael Laxer
Jun 3, 20236 min read
Yakov Sverdlov born June 3, 1885
The great Bolshevik revolutionary Yakov Sverdlov was born June 3, 1885. Yakov Sverdlov, a professional revolutionary, was an outstanding...
Michael Laxer
Jun 1, 20231 min read
Daily LIFT #953
Lenin Monument in Ulyanovsk, USSR 1976 -- Daily LIFT #953
Michael Laxer
May 7, 20235 min read
April Conference of the Bolsheviks begins May 7, 1917
Lenin at the April Conference of the RSDLP (b), painting Pyotr Dmitrievich Buchkin (1886-1965), USSR The tremendously important April...
Michael Laxer
Apr 22, 20231 min read
April in Lenin's Life
This short little piece published in the Soviet magazine Socialism: Theory and Practice in April 1983 looks at the various events that...
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