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Daily LIFT #1593
"Time, March On!", illustration, A. Rudkovich, USSR 1986 -- Daily LIFT #1593
Michael Laxer
2 days ago1 min read
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Kennedy files reveal that the CIA had an informant in the neo-Nazi NPD in the 1960s
Adolf von Thadden (1921-1996), NSDAP member, parliamentarian (member of the Bundestag and Bundesrat), and head of the NPD, known since...
The Left Chapter
2 days ago3 min read
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Daily LIFT #1592
Hammer & Sickle illustration, USSR, 1986 -- Daily LIFT #1592
Michael Laxer
3 days ago1 min read
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Daily LIFT #1586
The Lenin Monument outside the Novosibirsk Institute of Electrical Engineering, Novosibirsk, USSR 1982 -- Daily LIFT #1586
Michael Laxer
Mar 161 min read
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"Socialism is a necessity of our time": Portuguese Communist Party on the global struggle of the workers and peoples
Capitalism was not the initial system, nor is it the terminal system, in Humankind’s History. Its revolutionary overcoming and the...
Michael Laxer
Mar 1220 min read
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Daily LIFT #1580
The Victory of Communism is Inevitable. Communism Will Triumph - Lenin, poster, Y. Solovyov, USSR c. 1984 -- Daily LIFT #1580
Michael Laxer
Mar 91 min read
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Daily LIFT #1578
The Log Jam, painting, Veniamin Kushner, Ukrainian SSR, USSR late 1950s -- Daily LIFT #1578
Michael Laxer
Mar 51 min read
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Daily LIFT #1577
End of the Shift, painting Vilen Chekanyuk, Ukrainian SSR, USSR late 1950s -- Daily LIFT #1577
Michael Laxer
Mar 51 min read
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Daily LIFT #1576
Lenin Hills Station on the Moscow Metro, USSR 1960 -- Daily LIFT #1576 "Lenin Hills Station is built on a bridge across the Moscow River...
Michael Laxer
Mar 41 min read
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Daily LIFT #1575
Two engineering students at the Moscow Construction Engineering Institute share a New Year's Eve toast to ring in 1958 in the USSR --...
Michael Laxer
Mar 21 min read
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Moscow Metro builders: Tatyana Fedorova's brigade
A brigade of construction workers building the Moscow Metro. They were led by Tatiana Fedorova who is on the left holding the jackhammer....
Michael Laxer
Mar 26 min read
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Soviet Moscow's Metro, 1960
From USSR Magazine, January 1960: A METRO ride is one of the sightseeing musts for a tourist in Moscow. Its stations are not the dismal...
Michael Laxer
Feb 283 min read
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Daily LIFT #1572
Lenin at a Mass Rally, sketch, P. Vasiliev USSR -- Daily LIFT #1572
Michael Laxer
Feb 241 min read
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The coming of the collective farms in the USSR
From the Soviet English language magazine Socialism: Principles, Practice, Prospects, 1983. The late twenties was a turbulent time for...
Michael Laxer
Feb 232 min read
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Daily LIFT #1571
Lenin Statue, Riga, Latvian SSR, USSR 1985 -- Daily LIFT #1571
Michael Laxer
Feb 221 min read
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Daily LIFT #1570
The Rich Steppe, painting, Buryat Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic, USSR 1959 -- Daily LIFT #1570
Michael Laxer
Feb 211 min read
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Daily LIFT #1569
Old Tiflis, oil on canvas, Elena Akhvlediani (1900-1976), USSR 1927 -- Daily LIFT #1569
Michael Laxer
Feb 201 min read
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Daily LIFT #1567
Hammer and Sickle sculpture outside the USSR Pavilion at Expo 67 in Montreal -- Daily LIFT #1567 To learn more about the USSR at Expo 67:...
Michael Laxer
Feb 171 min read
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Daily LIFT #1566
Sunny Landscape, oil on canvas, Martiros Saryan, USSR 1923 -- Daily LIFT #1566 This wonderful combination of abstract and landscape art...
Michael Laxer
Feb 151 min read
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Daily LIFT #1565
Transport Returning to Normal (After the Revolutionary Civil War), oil on panel, Boris Yakovlev, USSR 1923 -- Daily LIFT #1565
Michael Laxer
Feb 141 min read
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