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Michael Laxer
Mar 6, 20211 min read
Tram lines converge in Strastnaya Square, Moscow 1928
Photos of Revolutionary Russia #46 Tram lines converge in Strastnaya Square, Moscow 1928 -- Photos of Revolutionary Russia #46 New tram...
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Michael Laxer
Mar 3, 20212 min read
Soviet Kaluga 1974 -- Images of the city of Tsiolkovsky
Kaluga is a mid-sized city (pop. approximately 300,000) located about 100 miles southwest of Moscow that is best known for being the...
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Michael Laxer
Mar 2, 20211 min read
Daily LIFT #403
International Workers' Day festivities, V.I. Lenin Square, Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk, Sakhalin Island, USSR 1973 -- Daily LIFT #403
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Michael Laxer
Feb 27, 20211 min read
Daily LIFT #401
Nadezhda Krupskaya and Clara Zetkin at the Third All-Russia Conference on Preschool Education, Moscow, 1926 -- Daily LIFT #401 Zetkin,...
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Michael Laxer
Feb 27, 20211 min read
The first tractor arrives in the Red Rifleman Commune, Smolensk region, 1929
Photos of Revolutionary Russia #40 The first tractor arrives in the Red Rifleman Commune, Smolensk region, 1929 -- Photos of...
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Michael Laxer
Feb 26, 20211 min read
"We are for the collective farm!"
Photos of Revolutionary Russia #39 "We are for the collective farm!" -- Photos of Revolutionary Russia #39 The farmers of the village of...
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Michael Laxer
Feb 26, 20211 min read
Daily LIFT #400
A team of tractor drivers visit Krupskaya's office in Moscow, 1935 -- Daily LIFT #400 Nadezhda Krupskaya stanch revolutionary, Marxist...
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Michael Laxer
Feb 25, 20211 min read
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...
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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...
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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...
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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
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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