Michael Laxer
Five varieties of Soviet borsch -- Vintage Cookbook TBT
w. Moscow Borsch, Ukrainian Borsch, Borsch with Dried White Mushrooms and Prunes, Summer Borsch and Cold Beetroot Soup. Stock photo These...
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Michael Laxer
Jan 22, 20229 min read
Soviet 1963: Memorable events
As we have noted before, the 1960s was arguably the beginning of a "Golden Age" in the history of the USSR as it launched into an era of...
Michael Laxer
Jan 20, 20221 min read
Daily LIFT #629
Crowds assemble at the Kremlin Palace of the Congresses for a showing of The Defiant Ones during the Third Moscow International Film...
Michael Laxer
Jan 16, 20221 min read
Daily LIFT #624
Hammer and Sickle at a Leningrad housing complex c. 1985 -- Daily LIFT #624
Michael Laxer
Jan 12, 20221 min read
Daily LIFT #622
"The philosophers have only interpreted the world in various ways; the point, however, is to change it." - Karl Marx, Soviet collage by...
Michael Laxer
Jan 9, 20226 min read
Looking back on the counter-revolution that defeated socialism in the USSR
The Party of Labour of Austria looks back at the catastrophe that was the collapse of the USSR and Socialist Bloc in this exceptional...
Michael Laxer
Jan 7, 20221 min read
Daily LIFT #619
Soviet artist Pyotr Vasilyev at work in his Moscow studio, 1947 -- Daily LIFT #619 Vasilyev (1899 – 1975) was a famed Soviet artist known...
Michael Laxer
Jan 4, 20221 min read
Daily LIFT #617
Marxism-Leninism the Guiding Star of Workers and Working People All Over the World, Soviet poster, 1961 -- Daily LIFT #617
Michael Laxer
Jan 3, 20221 min read
Daily LIFT #616
Ho Chi Minh on a visit to a Soviet children's camp, August 1957 -- Daily LIFT #616
Michael Laxer
Dec 30, 20211 min read
Daily LIFT #614
Forward, to the victory of Communism!, Soviet poster -- Daily LIFT #614 Today is the anniversary of the formation of the USSR, December...
Michael Laxer
Dec 30, 20213 min read
Soviet Estonian Cuisine 1970 -- Vintage Cookbook TBT
w. Estonian Pork chops, Pig's Feet, Pork Roast, Tallinn Steak Schnitzel and the Old Toomas Cocktail. From the November, 1970 issue of...
Michael Laxer
Dec 30, 20217 min read
USSR formed, December 30 1922: A look at its founding congress and decades of progress
Cover of Soviet Life Magazine in honour of the 60th anniversary of the formation of the USSR, December 1982 Today marks the anniversary...
Michael Laxer
Dec 25, 20211 min read
Daily LIFT #610
Gymnasts perform during the USSR-USA track and field meet in Moscow, summer 1958 -- Daily LIFT #610 The meet was held in front of 60,000...
Michael Laxer
Dec 24, 20211 min read
Daily LIFT #609
A celebration of the season around a giant holiday tree, Moscow USSR, 1957 -- Daily LIFT #609 From all of us at The Left Chapter to all...
Michael Laxer
Dec 23, 20211 min read
Daily LIFT #608
1941, painting Viktor Ni (1934-1979), USSR 1969 -- Daily LIFT #608 Haunting artistic evocation of the start of the Great Patriotic War in...
Michael Laxer
Dec 18, 20211 min read
Daily LIFT #604
Mao addresses the November 1957 International Meeting of Communist and Workers Parties in Moscow, USSR -- Daily LIFT #604
Michael Laxer
Dec 17, 20211 min read
Daily LIFT #603
Lenin Explains the Tasks Ahead of the Young Soviet State at Revolutionary Headquarters, USSR 1958 -- Daily LIFT #603
Michael Laxer
Dec 17, 20212 min read
Artistic views of the October Revolution
The Revolution Has Been Carried Out by Boris Ioganson "Boris loganson in his The Revolution Has Been Carried Out painted Lenin announcing...
Michael Laxer
Dec 16, 20211 min read
Daily LIFT #602
Proletarians of All Countries Unite! Communist and Workers’ Parties Will Develop International Cooperation and Solidarity On the...
Michael Laxer
Dec 13, 20211 min read
This is the way! - Photos of palaces expropriated by the Bolsheviks for workers
During the Bolshevik revolution and the creation of socialism in the USSR, the grand palaces and estates of the nobility and ruling class...
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