Michael Laxer
Daily LIFT #399
Che and Yuri Gagarin share a laugh -- Daily LIFT #399 Wonderful photo of Che and Gagarin. It is not dated but is likely from 1964 in...
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Michael Laxer
Feb 23, 20211 min read
Gorky and plant director I. A. Likhachev outside the Moscow Automotive Plant, 1928
Photos of Revolutionary Russia #36 Gorky and plant director I. A. Likhachev outside the Moscow Automotive Plant, 1928 -- Photos of...
Michael Laxer
Feb 21, 20211 min read
Grand opening of the Shaturskaya power plant, 1925
Photos of Revolutionary Russia #35 Grand opening ceremony for the Shaturskaya power plant -- Photos of Revolutionary Russia #35 The...
Michael Laxer
Feb 20, 20211 min read
Campaign to end homelessness for children and youth, USSR 1924
Photos of Revolutionary Russia #34 Campaign to end homelessness for children and youth, USSR 1924 -- Photos of Revolutionary Russia #34...
Michael Laxer
Feb 19, 20211 min read
At the Moscow Agricultural Exhibition, 1923
Photos of Revolutionary Russia #33 At the Moscow Agricultural Exhibition, 1923 -- Photos of Revolutionary Russia #33
Michael Laxer
Feb 18, 20211 min read
Daily LIFT #393
Our locomotive goes forward!, Revold Baryshnikov USSR 1972 -- Daily LIFT #393 Baryshnikov (1924-1985) was born in Kharkov and had just...
Michael Laxer
Feb 18, 20211 min read
The first Soviet AMO-F-15 truck in Red Square, 1924
Photos of Revolutionary Russia #32 The first Soviet AMO-F-15 truck in Red Square, 1924 -- Photos of Revolutionary Russia #32 The first...
Michael Laxer
Feb 12, 20211 min read
Red Forces Win at the Battle of Volochayevka, February 12, 1922
Art and Memorial Photos, USSR 1972 Part of a Battle of Volochayevka Diorama On February 12, 1922 the Red fighters of the People's...
Michael Laxer
Feb 9, 20211 min read
Sacrifice at Krasnodon - February 9, 1943
Monument to the Young Guards in Krasnodon -- erected in the Ukrainian SSR, 1954 On February 9, 1943, five heroic leaders and partisans of...
Michael Laxer
Feb 8, 20211 min read
Daily LIFT #387
Red Army Detachment 1919, painting Sergey Luppov (1893-1977) 1928 -- Daily LIFT #387 Luppov's painting shows a Red detachment marching to...
Michael Laxer
Feb 4, 20211 min read
Quick to Make, Delicious to Eat: Some Dishes from Latvia -- Vintage Cookbook TBT
w. Latvian Style Steak and Onion, the Riga Cutlet, Bread Soup & more. Last week we looked at the Soviet English language magazine Sputnik...
Michael Laxer
Feb 1, 20211 min read
Daily LIFT #384
Soldier with the victory flag on Mamayev Kurgan, Stalingrad, February 1, 1943 -- Daily LIFT #384 In a photo dated February 1, 1943, a Red...
Michael Laxer
Jan 30, 202122 min read
Hostile Whirlwinds: The Civil War and the Russian Revolution
A Soviet look at the life-and-death struggle against foreign intervention and counter-revolution that gripped the lands of what was to...
Michael Laxer
Jan 28, 20211 min read
Daily LIFT #381
To the Heroes of the Battle of Stalingrad, Sculptural composition from the Square of Heroes, Mamayev Kurgan, Volgograd (Stalingrad), USSR...
Michael Laxer
Jan 28, 20211 min read
Try Eating the Azerbaijanian Way, USSR 1968 -- Vintage Cookbook TBT
w. Pilau Turshi, Kyufta-Bozbash Soup, Azerbaijanian-Style Fried Meat & more. The Soviet English language magazine Sputnik often had a...
Michael Laxer
Jan 27, 20212 min read
Leningrad: A photographic exposition of resistance, victory and reconstruction
On January 27, 1944 the Red Army finally lifted the siege of Leningrad. These contrasting images of the city during the days of the war...
Michael Laxer
Jan 26, 20217 min read
Red Army troops take Mamayev Kurgan, January 26 1943
Decisive moment in the victory at Stalingrad. On January 26, 1943 Soviet forces captured the heights of Mamayev Kurgan in the city of...
Michael Laxer
Jan 25, 20211 min read
Daily LIFT #380
Lenin's Ideas Live and Win!, Poster, USSR 1977 -- Daily LIFT #380
Michael Laxer
Jan 22, 20211 min read
Daily LIFT #377
Soviet sculptor and artist Yevgeny Vuchetich in his Moscow studio, 1970 -- Daily LIFT #377 Vuchetich (1908-1974) is regarded by many as...
Michael Laxer
Jan 16, 20211 min read
Daily LIFT #373
Volgograd workers festival rally, USSR 1983 -- Daily LIFT #373 The banner on the building reads "Party's Plans - People's Plans"
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