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Michael Laxer
May 25, 20228 min read
Dinner at a Soviet factory cafeteria, 1963
The cafeteria at the "Mosstroytrans" Trucking Depot No. 1, Moscow c. 1979 A fascinating bit of Soviet social history, this article from...
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Michael Laxer
May 25, 20222 min read
Lenin on Red Square, May 25, 1919
Images of Lenin #58 Lenin on Red Square at a parade of workers' regiments formed under the Universal Military Training Scheme (Vsevobuch)...
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Michael Laxer
May 5, 20221 min read
Lenin in Sverdlov Square, May 5 1920
Images of Lenin #43 V. I. Lenin addressing men of the Red Army leaving for the Polish Front, Sverdlov Square, Moscow May 5, 1920 --...
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Michael Laxer
Apr 30, 20221 min read
Lenin, Moscow May 1, 1920
Images of Lenin #38 V. I. Lenin at the laying of the foundation stone of a monument to Liberated Labour, Prechistenskaya embankment,...
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Michael Laxer
Apr 18, 20221 min read
Lenin, July 1920, Moscow
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...
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Michael Laxer
Mar 18, 20221 min read
Lenin in the presidium of the First Congress of the Third International
Images of Lenin #2 V.I. Lenin in the presidium of the First Congress of the Third International, Moscow, March 1919 "The Paris Commune --...
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Michael Laxer
Jan 27, 20224 min read
Five varieties of Soviet borsch -- Vintage Cookbook TBT
w. Moscow Borsch, Ukrainian Borsch, Borsch with Dried White Mushrooms and Prunes, Summer Borsch and Cold Beetroot Soup. Stock photo These...
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Michael Laxer
Jan 20, 20221 min read
Daily LIFT #629
Crowds assemble at the Kremlin Palace of the Congresses for a showing of The Defiant Ones during the Third Moscow International Film...
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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,...
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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 25, 20211 min read
Daily LIFT #610
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...
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Michael Laxer
Dec 24, 20211 min read
Daily LIFT #609
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...
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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 6, 20211 min read
Daily LIFT #595
International Women's Day march, Moscow, USSR 1924 -- Daily LIFT #595 After the Bolshevik Revolution International Women's Day was made a...
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Michael Laxer
Dec 5, 20211 min read
Daily LIFT #594
Soviet soldiers man an air defense gun in Moscow during the Battle of Moscow. In the background can be seen the famous socialist realist...
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Michael Laxer
Dec 5, 20215 min read
Red Army stops the Nazis at the gates of Moscow, Dec. 5 1941
On December 5, 1941 the Red Army launched a counter-offensive against the Nazi invaders at the very gates of Moscow. This was totally...
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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 20, 20211 min read
Daily LIFT #583
Lenin Monument, Moscow, USSR 1985 -- Daily LIFT #583
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Michael Laxer
Nov 9, 20211 min read
Daily LIFT #575
Karl Marx statue, Moscow USSR, 1971 -- Daily LIFT #575
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Michael Laxer
Oct 22, 20211 min read
Daily LIFT #561
Under the banner of Peace and Freedom the World Peace Conference took place in Moscow , October 25-31, 1973 -- Daily LIFT #561
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