Michael Laxer
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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)...
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...
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)...
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
Michael Laxer
May 21, 20221 min read
Lenin and the Red Guards, 1967
Images of Lenin #55 Lenin and the Red Guards, D. Bisti, USSR 1967 -- Images of Lenin #55 This is the fifty-fifth in our daily feature...
Michael Laxer
May 20, 20224 min read
12 works by Soviet artist Aleksandr Deineka, b. May 20, 1899
One of the Soviet Union's greatest socialist realist artists, Aleksandr Deineka (sometimes translated as Deyneka) was born in Kursk, May...
Michael Laxer
May 19, 20222 min read
Lenin Working Underground, E. Kibrik, USSR 1947
Images of Lenin #54 V. I. Lenin Working Underground, drawing, Evgenii Kibrik, USSR 1947 -- Images of Lenin #54 From the Great Soviet...
Michael Laxer
May 18, 20221 min read
V. I. Lenin autographed sketch, I. Brodsky, 1920
Images of Lenin #53 V. I. Lenin sketch, I. Brodsky, 1920. The sketch was autographed by Lenin -- Images of Lenin #53 Isaak Brodsky, was...
Michael Laxer
May 18, 20221 min read
Daily LIFT #713
Forward to Communism, Viktor Koretskii, poster USSR 1947 -- Daily LIFT #713 Koretskii, (also sometimes translated as Koretsky), an...
Michael Laxer
May 13, 20221 min read
Daily LIFT #710
The City of the Future, Alexander Labas USSR, 1935 -- Daily LIFT #710 Labas was a Soviet avant-garde artist whose works were popular in...
Michael Laxer
May 9, 20227 min read
The terrible price of victory: A brief look at the sacrifices of the USSR in WWII
Today on May 9 -- Victory Day in the former USSR as it was on this day in 1945 that the Soviets formally accepted the German surrender --...
Michael Laxer
May 8, 20221 min read
Daily LIFT #706
We Stand for Peace, Soviet peace poster, 1950 -- Daily LIFT #706
Michael Laxer
May 3, 20221 min read
Daily LIFT #702
Hammer and Sickle Monument honouring the 50th anniversary of Soviet power at the Montreal Expo, 1967 -- Daily LIFT #702 To learn more...
Michael Laxer
May 3, 20221 min read
V. I. Lenin Sketch, N. Altman 1920
Images of Lenin #41 V. I. Lenin sketch, Nathan Altman, 1920 -- Images of Lenin #41 Nathan Altman (b. 1889) was a prominent Soviet artist...
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