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Michael Laxer
Nov 2, 20223 min read
Daily LIFT #826
Monument to Karl Marx, Leningrad (bronze and stone) sculpture Nikolai Tomsky, USSR 1932 -- Daily LIFT #826 Nikolai Tomsky (sometimes...
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Michael Laxer
Oct 31, 20221 min read
Daily LIFT #824
In the collective farm headquarters, painting, Samuil Yakovlevich Adlivankin, USSR 1931 -- Daily LIFT #824
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Michael Laxer
Oct 30, 202210 min read
Chronicling the revolution: Soviet stamps 1917-1960
First published in October 1960, this is a fascinating, illustrated look at the history of Soviet stamps in the first forty-three years...
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Michael Laxer
Oct 27, 20221 min read
The Professions -- Soviet Socialist Realist art for youth
Published in Moscow in 1983 this folder of Soviet socialist realist art was actually aimed at children. It was a portfolio of works by...
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Michael Laxer
Oct 23, 20221 min read
Daily LIFT #820
Stamp in honour of the 22nd Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, 1961 -- Daily LIFT #820 Held between October 17-31,...
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Michael Laxer
Oct 16, 20221 min read
Daily LIFT #816
Big Bill Haywood at a rally in Moscow, USSR 1923 (Haywood is at lower left) -- Daily LIFT #816 Legendary IWW leader Haywood fled the...
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Michael Laxer
Oct 15, 20221 min read
Daily LIFT #815
Lenin Bust, USSR 1924 -- Daily LIFT #815
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Michael Laxer
Oct 12, 20221 min read
Daily LIFT #813
Study Communism!, Soviet poster -- Daily LIFT #813
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Michael Laxer
Oct 11, 20223 min read
The Eugene V. Debs Children's Colony: Soviet children's homes expropriated from the wealthy, 1923
The Lenin Children's Home in Orenburg After the devastation of the First World War, the triumph of the Bolshevik Revolution saw the lands...
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Michael Laxer
Oct 5, 20221 min read
Daily LIFT #810
Soviet EXPO 1970 stamp celebrating "Children's Creativity" -- Daily LIFT #810
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Michael Laxer
Oct 4, 20225 min read
Sputnik I launched, October 4, 1957
"The Country of October is the Birthplace of Cosmonautics", Soviet poster On October 4, 1957, the Soviet Union stunned the world by...
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Michael Laxer
Sep 28, 20221 min read
Daily LIFT #804
Soviet May Day poster -- Daily LIFT #804
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Michael Laxer
Sep 25, 20221 min read
Emancipation of Labor formed in Russia, Sept. 25, 1883
Soviet stamp in honour of the 100th anniversary of the birth of Georgi Plekhanov, 1956 From USSR Magazine, September 1963: "September 25,...
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Michael Laxer
Sep 23, 20221 min read
Daily LIFT #801
Fidel Castro enjoying a ride in the snow with some Soviet children during his 1963 trip to the USSR -- Daily LIFT #801
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Michael Laxer
Sep 20, 20221 min read
Daily LIFT #798
Glory to Soviet Athletes!, Soviet stamp. 1972 -- Daily LIFT #799 The stamp was issued to honour the first participation of the USSR in...
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Michael Laxer
Sep 17, 20221 min read
Daily LIFT #797
Peace to All Peoples!, poster, USSR 1982 -- Daily LIFT #797
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Michael Laxer
Sep 17, 20223 min read
Bryansk liberated by Red Army, Sept. 17 1943
Monument of Glory to the Soldiers and Partisans - Liberators of Bryansk, USSR 1973 On September 17, 1943 the forces of the Red Army...
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Michael Laxer
Sep 16, 20221 min read
Daily LIFT #796
Lenin, Soviet Poster 1969 -- Daily LIFT #796
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Michael Laxer
Sep 16, 20227 min read
The Vancouver, Washington Soviet monument and street name and the story behind them
The city of Vancouver, Washington (now with a population of around 190,000) in the United States has a monument and major street...
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Michael Laxer
Sep 14, 20221 min read
Luna 2: September 14, 1959
On September 14, 1959 the Soviet Luna 2 spacecraft became the first in history to reach the surface of the moon and in doing so the first...
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