Soviet author Maxim Gorky bids farewell to to French novelist Romain Rolland and his wife after their trip to the USSR, Moscow, July 21...

Demobilized Red Army soldiers arrive home at the Byelorussia Railroad Station, Moscow after the victory over the Nazis in the Great...

Delegates to the Tenth All-Russia Conference of the R.C.P.(B) in the Sverdlovsk Hall of the Kremlin, Moscow, May 26, 1921. Lenin is in...

The cafeteria at the "Mosstroytrans" Trucking Depot No. 1, Moscow c. 1979 A fascinating bit of Soviet social history, this article from...

Images of Lenin #58 Lenin on Red Square at a parade of workers' regiments formed under the Universal Military Training Scheme (Vsevobuch)...

Images of Lenin #43 V. I. Lenin addressing men of the Red Army leaving for the Polish Front, Sverdlov Square, Moscow May 5, 1920 --...

Images of Lenin #38 V. I. Lenin at the laying of the foundation stone of a monument to Liberated Labour, Prechistenskaya embankment,...

Images of Lenin #28 Lenin, July 1920, Moscow -- Images of Lenin #28 This is the twenty-eighth in our new daily feature that will be...

Images of Lenin #2 V.I. Lenin in the presidium of the First Congress of the Third International, Moscow, March 1919 "The Paris Commune --...

w. Moscow Borsch, Ukrainian Borsch, Borsch with Dried White Mushrooms and Prunes, Summer Borsch and Cold Beetroot Soup. Stock photo These...

Crowds assemble at the Kremlin Palace of the Congresses for a showing of The Defiant Ones during the Third Moscow International Film...

An account of the visit of progressive American economist and former presidential candidate Parley Christensen to meet Lenin in Moscow,...

During the centennial year of Lenin's birth, 1970, Mikhail Yeryomin, a retired Soviet Major-General who was then working for the...

Gymnasts perform during the USSR-USA track and field meet in Moscow, summer 1958 -- Daily LIFT #610 The meet was held in front of 60,000...

A celebration of the season around a giant holiday tree, Moscow USSR, 1957 -- Daily LIFT #609 From all of us at The Left Chapter to all...

Published in the Soviet press for the 100th anniversary of Lenin's birth (April 1970) these were four photographs of Lenin that had been...

International Women's Day march, Moscow, USSR 1924 -- Daily LIFT #595 After the Bolshevik Revolution International Women's Day was made a...

Soviet soldiers man an air defense gun in Moscow during the Battle of Moscow. In the background can be seen the famous socialist realist...

On December 5, 1941 the Red Army launched a counter-offensive against the Nazi invaders at the very gates of Moscow. This was totally...

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...