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Michael Laxer
Feb 3, 20231 min read
Daily LIFT #876
Yuri Gagarin Portrait, Pyotr Tarasovich Maltsev, USSR -- Daily LIFT #876
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Michael Laxer
Feb 2, 20231 min read
Stalingrad: The Turning Point of World War Two - February 2, 1943
On this day in 1943 the last of the Nazi generals at Stalingrad (General Strecker) surrendered. The Soviet Red Army, after the largest...
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Michael Laxer
Jan 30, 20231 min read
Daily LIFT #874
The Communist Party steers the ship of the Soviet Union guided by the compass of Leninism, cartoon, Pravda, January 1926 -- Daily LIFT #874
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Michael Laxer
Jan 28, 20231 min read
Daily LIFT #872
Fifty years of the USSR, Soviet bookmark image, 1967 -- Daily LIFT #872 This cool image is available on a mug at out Etsy store:...
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Michael Laxer
Jan 26, 20231 min read
Daily LIFT #871
The great Spanish Communist leader Dolores Ibarruri and the monument-ensemble sculptor, laureate of the Lenin Prize E. V. Vuchetich on...
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Michael Laxer
Jan 26, 20235 min read
"Power to the People": Angela Davis b. January 26, 1944
Libertad Para Angela Davis, Cuban Poster 1971 A Cuban in solidarity with US freedom fighter, civil rights and communist activist Angela...
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Michael Laxer
Jan 26, 20231 min read
Daily LIFT #870
Monument to the January Uprising, 1918, Kiev, Ukrainian SSR, USSR 1975 -- Daily LIFT #870 In the January Uprising the workers of Kiev...
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Michael Laxer
Jan 20, 20231 min read
Daily LIFT #868
Lenin Peace Stamp, USSR 1960 -- Daily LIFT #868
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Michael Laxer
Jan 19, 20232 min read
Daily LIFT #867
Long Live the October Revolution, Vladimir Alexandrovich Serov (1910-1968) 1951 -- Daily LIFT #867 From the Great Soviet Encyclopedia:...
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Michael Laxer
Jan 18, 20232 min read
Leningrad encirclement broken, January 18, 1943
From the Monument to the Heroic Defenders of Leningrad Today marks the 80th anniversary of the day the Red Army first broke through the...
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Michael Laxer
Jan 17, 20234 min read
The Declaration of the Rights of Toiling and Exploited People - January 17, 1918
The historic Soviet Declaration of the Rights of Toiling and Exploited People was first published on January 17, 1918 (new calendar) in ...
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Michael Laxer
Jan 14, 20235 min read
Magadan and Region - 16 Panoramic Images of the Soviet Far East and North, 1976
Published in 1976 this folder of spectacular, panoramic images looked at the city of Magadan and its surrounding region in the far east...
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Michael Laxer
Jan 12, 20231 min read
Daily LIFT #864
An Order of Lenin Medal, USSR -- Daily LIFT #846 "As a general rule, in all countries of the world the parliamentary representatives of...
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Michael Laxer
Jan 11, 20231 min read
Daily LIFT #863
RUSSIANS, UKRAINIANS, ARMENIANS, ESTONIANS, UZBEKS, KAZAKHS...MORE THAN 100 NATIONS AND NATIONALITIES BUT ONE UNION --The unity of the...
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Michael Laxer
Jan 10, 202319 min read
Attempted Coup in Brazil: Red Review New Year Edition -- International Left and Labour News
With news from the People's Republic of China, Cuba, the DPRK, the USA and elsewhere. There is a section related to the attempted far...
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Michael Laxer
Jan 8, 20231 min read
Daily LIFT #862
Memorial Complex to the Victims of Fascism, Kiev, Ukrainian SSR, USSR 1975 -- Daily LIFT #862
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Michael Laxer
Jan 7, 20234 min read
The creation of the first workers’ state was a "beacon of hope for the workers of the world"
Statement from the Workers' Party of Ireland. The 100th anniversary of the creation of the world's first workers' and socialist state was...
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Michael Laxer
Jan 2, 20237 min read
2022: The year in review on The Left Chapter
Chris Smalls speaks 2022 is done and what a complicated year it was. There was the imperialist war in Ukraine, the uprising in...
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Michael Laxer
Dec 31, 20221 min read
Daily LIFT #859
Happy New Year!, Soviet New Years Card -- Daily LIFT #859 From All of Us at The Left Chapter to Our Readers, Contributors and Comrades:...
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Michael Laxer
Dec 30, 20223 min read
A sword is not our emblem: How the seal of the USSR was designed
On the 100th anniversary of the formation of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics -- the world's first workers' and socialist state --...
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