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Michael Laxer
Jul 7, 20223 min read
Soviet North Ossetian Republic founded, July 7, 1924
Stamp honouring the North Ossetian ASSR, USSR 1960 On July 7, 1924. The North Ossetian Republic was founded in the USSR. In 1936 it...
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Michael Laxer
Jul 6, 20221 min read
Daily LIFT #748
March in celebration of the anniversary of the Bolshevik Revolution, Moscow USSR, 1971 -- Daily LIFT #748
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Michael Laxer
Jul 5, 20221 min read
Daily LIFT #747
New tractor is delivered to a collective farm, Ukrainian SSR, USSR, spring 1939 -- Daily LIFT #747 The rapid industrialization of the...
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Michael Laxer
Jul 4, 20222 min read
Minsk liberated, July 3, 1944
Red Army troops in central Minsk after the liberation of the city In early July, 1944 Red Army forces were driving forward into large...
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Michael Laxer
Jul 3, 20221 min read
Daily LIFT #746
Demobilized Red Army soldiers arrive home at the Byelorussia Railroad Station, Moscow after the victory over the Nazis in the Great...
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Michael Laxer
Jun 29, 20221 min read
Daily LIFT #744
To the Eternal Memory of Those Soviet People Who Gave Their Lives in the Struggle Against Fascism, dedication page of a history of the...
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Michael Laxer
Jun 21, 20221 min read
Daily LIFT #738
Cover of the English language edition of a Lenin biography published by the Institute of Marxism-Leninism, USSR 1960 -- Daily LIFT #738 A...
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Michael Laxer
Jun 17, 20221 min read
Daily LIFT #735
A Spanish Republican soldier in Moscow to celebrate the 19th anniversary of the Bolshevik Revolution, November 7, 1936 -- Daily LIFT #735...
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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...
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Michael Laxer
Jun 7, 20221 min read
Daily LIFT #727
Karl Marx Statue on Karl Marx Avenue, Kaliningrad USSR c. 1980 -- Daily LIFT #727
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Michael Laxer
Jun 6, 20221 min read
Daily LIFT #726
Viva Cuba!, poster Viktor Koretskii USSR, 1962 -- Daily LIFT #726 Koretskii, (also sometimes translated as Koretsky), an astonishingly...
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Michael Laxer
Jun 2, 20221 min read
Lenin Sketch, Nikolay Andreyev
Images of Lenin #64 Lenin Sketch, Nikolay Andreyev, USSR 1920s -- Images of Lenin #64 Andreyev (1873-1932) was a sculptor and artist best...
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Michael Laxer
May 31, 20222 min read
V. I. Lenin, A. Goncharov, 1969
Images of Lenin #62 V. I. Lenin, A. Goncharov, USSR 1969 -- Images of Lenin #62 From the Great Soviet Encyclopedia, 1979: Andrei...
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Michael Laxer
May 26, 20221 min read
May the Ruling Classes Tremble in the Face of the Communist Revolution, 1922
Images of Lenin #59 May the Ruling Classes Tremble in the Face of the Communist Revolution, A. Sokolov, USSR 1922 -- Images of Lenin #58...
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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...
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Michael Laxer
May 24, 20221 min read
Daily LIFT #717
Let Soviet-Mongolian friendship become stronger!, poster USSR -- Daily LIFT #717 A friendship poster between the USSR and the Mongolian...
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Michael Laxer
May 23, 20221 min read
The Civil War, 1928
Images of Lenin #57 The Civil War, Vladimir Favorsky, engraving on wood, USSR 1928 -- Images of Lenin #57 Vladimir Favorsky (1886-1964)...
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Michael Laxer
May 23, 20221 min read
Daily LIFT #716
Portrait of F. Zhelyuk, twice a Hero of Socialist Labour, Ukrainian SSR, Mikhail Antonchik artist USSR, 1975 -- Daily LIFT #716 Antonchik...
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Michael Laxer
May 22, 20221 min read
October, 1917
Images of Lenin #56 October 1917, Vladimir Favorsky, engraving on wood, USSR 1928 -- Images of Lenin #56 Vladimir Favorsky (1886-1964)...
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Michael Laxer
May 22, 20221 min read
Daily LIFT #715
Cotton growers of collective farm "Tajikistan", Ilya Rakhnaev, Oil on canvas, USSR 1975 -- Daily LIFT #715
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