Michael Laxer
Daily LIFT #515
On the Lake Ladoga Road of Life, BV Korneev (1922-1973) Oil on canvas -- Daily LIFT #515 A painting of a Soviet soldier directing traffic...
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Michael Laxer
Aug 16, 202118 min read
Artek: The vast Soviet internationalist complex of children's camps
An in-depth look at the Soviet Artek Pioneer youth camp, a sprawling internationalist complex of ten sub-camps and various facilities...
Michael Laxer
Aug 5, 20211 min read
Daily LIFT #509
Lenin Square, Alma Ata, Kazakh SSR August 1971 -- Daily LIFT #509
Michael Laxer
Aug 4, 20211 min read
Daily LIFT #508
Monument to the Hero Members of the Young Communist League, Frunze, Kirghiz SSR 1970 -- Daily LIFT #508
Michael Laxer
Aug 4, 20211 min read
Solidarity with revolutionary Cuba!
Today, the Latin American peoples are showing by their struggle that the American continent is not a preserve of the U.S.A. Latin America...
Michael Laxer
Aug 1, 20211 min read
Daily LIFT #505
Peace, linocut, Vladimir Favorsky (1886-1964) USSR 1961 -- Daily LIFT #505 Favorsky was name a People’s Artist of the USSR and was a...
Michael Laxer
Jul 29, 20211 min read
Daily LIFT #503
Ho Chi Minh with Vietnamese and Soviet children at an internationalist summer camp in the USSR, July 1957 -- Daily LIFT #503
Michael Laxer
Jul 28, 20213 min read
Soviet Vitebsk 1976: 12 postcard images
Published in 1976 this folder of 12 images of Vitebsk in the Byelorussian SSR was aimed at domestic audience and was printed entirely in...
Michael Laxer
Jul 26, 20211 min read
Daily LIFT #501
The New China, Konstantin Finogenov (1902–1989) – Honored Artist of the RSFSR, USSR --Daily LIFT #501
Michael Laxer
Jul 24, 20211 min read
Daily LIFT #500
Hammer and Sickle, Dmitry Petrov USSR 1982 -- Daily LIFT #500
Michael Laxer
Jul 16, 20211 min read
Soviet Moskvitch 412
An ad for the Soviet Moskvitch 412 from July 1969. The 412 was produced from 1967-1975 in a factory in Moscow. It was a family sedan that...
Michael Laxer
Jul 8, 20212 min read
Sputnik's Dishes from Odessa, USSR 1969
w. "Kuyalnik" Rolls, Odessa Rissoles and the "Tourist Special". Odessa night street scene, 1975 -- from our post: Second World War Hero...
Michael Laxer
Jul 2, 20211 min read
Daily LIFT #487
The Distance is Great but Our Hearts are Close, Soviet anti-imperialist poster in solidarity with the people of Vietnam, 1958 -- Daily...
Michael Laxer
Jun 28, 20211 min read
Daily LIFT #486
Child at the base of the Saratov Monument to Lenin, USSR 1976 -- Daily LIFT #486
Michael Laxer
Jun 25, 20211 min read
Daily LIFT #485
Ho Chi Minh (in front) with other delegates at the 5th Congress of the Communist International, Moscow, July 1924 -- Daily LIFT #485
Michael Laxer
Jun 22, 20211 min read
Daily LIFT #483
Soviet partisans after the liberation of the Crimea from the Nazis, May 1944 -- Daily LIFT #483
Michael Laxer
Jun 22, 202115 min read
The heroic defense of the Brest Fortress, June 22 1941
An Soviet account of the incredible bravery of the Red Army garrison in the opening days of the Nazi invasion. The Courage Monument in...
Michael Laxer
Jun 21, 20211 min read
Daily LIFT #482
The Motherland Calls Mamayev Kurgan Memorial Complex at Volgograd (Stalingrad) 1975 -- Daily LIFT #482 Tomorrow, June 22, marks the 80th...
Michael Laxer
Jun 21, 20213 min read
17 panoramic photos of Soviet Donetsk 1973
Known then as Yuzovka, Donetsk at the time of the revolution was a mining city with a population of just over 50,000. After the triumph...
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