Michael Laxer
Daily LIFT #1431
Nikita Khrushchev and Leonid Brezhnev in conversation during the Great Patriotic War, 1943 -- Daily LIFT #1431
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Michael Laxer
Nov 17, 20221 min read
Daily LIFT #835
Nikita Khrushchev, Leonid Brezhnev and sculptor Lev Kerbel among others at the Karl Marx statue in Moscow, 1961 -- Daily LIFT #835
Michael Laxer
Jul 27, 20221 min read
Daily LIFT #763
Mao and Khrushchev in Beijing, summer 1958 -- Daily LIFT #763
Michael Laxer
Jun 16, 20221 min read
Daily LIFT #734
Nikita Khrushchev with Valentina Tereshkova, Yuri Gagarin and other Soviet cosmonauts in Moscow's Red Square on June 22, 1963 -- Daily...
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...
Michael Laxer
Apr 12, 20222 min read
First Flight: Gagarin goes into space April 12, 1961
Soviet photos, statements and accounts of the historic launch and the days that followed. On April 12, 1961 Yuri Gagarin became the first...
Michael Laxer
Apr 5, 20221 min read
Daily LIFT #685
Fidel Castro and Nikita Khrushchev in Red Square, Moscow USSR, May Day 1963 -- Daily LIFT #685
Michael Laxer
Mar 9, 20221 min read
Daily LIFT #668
Comrades Yuri Gagarin and Nikita Khrushchev embrace in Moscow days after Gagarin's historic flight into space -- Daily LIFT #668 Gagarin...
Michael Laxer
Mar 9, 20225 min read
Yuri Gagarin in his own words
. Yuri Gagarin, his wife Valentina Ivanovna and Nikita Khrushchev during a parade after his triumphant flight. In honour of the birth...
Michael Laxer
Jan 22, 20229 min read
Soviet 1963: Memorable events
As we have noted before, the 1960s was arguably the beginning of a "Golden Age" in the history of the USSR as it launched into an era of...
Michael Laxer
Jan 16, 20221 min read
Daily LIFT #625
Khrushchev, Mao and Ho Chi Minh share a drink, 1959 -- Daily LIFT #625
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,...
Michael Laxer
Aug 30, 20211 min read
Daily LIFT #525
Castro lights a cigar during a meeting with Khrushchev under the watchful eye of Karl Marx during a trip to the USSR, 1963 -- Daily LIFT...
Michael Laxer
Aug 4, 20211 min read
Solidarity with revolutionary Cuba!
Today, the Latin American peoples are showing by their struggle that the American continent is not a preserve of the U.S.A. Latin America...
Michael Laxer
Jul 14, 20211 min read
Daily LIFT #494
Nikita Khrushchev, Mao Zedong, Ho Chi Minh and Soong Ching-ling dine together, 1959 -- Daily LIFT #494
Michael Laxer
Mar 17, 20211 min read
Daily LIFT #414
Khrushchev and Castro meet for the first time, New York, 1960 -- Daily LIFT #414 Khrushchev commented on how they "enclosed each other in...
Michael Laxer
Oct 20, 20201 min read
Daily LIFT #308
Fidel Castro and Nikita Khrushchev enjoy some Georgian wine, Georgian SSR, USSR, 1963 -- Daily LIFT #308
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