Michael LaxerMar 2410 min readShe dedicated herself to the Revolution: The story of Jeanne-Marie LabourbeA look at the courageous life and terrible execution of French Bolshevik revolutionary Jeanne-Marie Labourbe (1877-1919) who worked among...
Michael LaxerFeb 191 min readRed Army liberates Vladivostok, October 1922 -- Stamps of the Red Army #1 Soviet stamp Issued in 1968 in honour of the 50th anniversary of the Red Army. It depicts the liberation of Vladivostok from...
Michael LaxerFeb 32 min readThe Soviets Proclaimed the GovernmentLenin, painting Isaak Brodsky (1884-1939) "Every minute brings news of fresh conquests of the Revolution–the arrest of ministers, the...
Michael LaxerSep 9, 20231 min readDaily LIFT #1028First International Communist Chinese Detachment, Revolutionary Civil War, Soviet Russia 1918 -- Daily LIFT #1028 Well before the...
Michael LaxerAug 11, 20221 min readLenin, August 11, 1917Lenin shaved and with a wig while evading arrest by the Provisional Government, Razliv Russia, August 11, 1917 Just three days prior to...