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Michael Laxer
May 172 min read
The Partisans: Behind Enemy Lines
From a folder of historic cards published in 1985 on the 40th anniversary of the victory of the USSR in the Great Patriotic War we...
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Michael Laxer
May 169 min read
Historical conclusions from the tactics of the anti-fascist fronts: The contemporary struggle of communists against fascism
Contribution of the Workers Party of Ireland at the European Communist Action meeting in Madrid (11th May 2024): Dear Comrades:...
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Michael Laxer
May 151 min read
Daily LIFT #1345
Lenin in Gorki talking with the peasants, drawing, Pyotr Vasilyev, USSR 1943 -- Daily LIFT #1345 Vasilyev (1899 – 1975) was a member of...
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Michael Laxer
May 131 min read
Daily LIFT #1344
Lenin and Krupskaya, painting, Viktor Nikolaevich Pegov USSR -- Daily LIFT #1344
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Michael Laxer
May 121 min read
Daily LIFT #1343
Firstborn, painting Evgeny Rastorguev, USSR 1949 -- Daily LIFT #1343
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Michael Laxer
May 114 min read
"Never forget the outstanding role of the Soviet army in the military defeat of Nazism" - FIR
Soviet War Memorial in Berlin - Tx0h, CC BY-SA 3.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0>, via Wikimedia Commons The...
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Michael Laxer
May 112 min read
German police attempt to break up commemorations of Soviet victory in WWII
Police confiscate copies of Junge Welt Via Junge Welt and the KKE - translations from the German via Helmut-Harry Loewen In a shameful...
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Michael Laxer
May 111 min read
Daily LIFT #1342
Lenin Monument, Ivanov, USSR 1974 -- Daily LIFT #1342
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Michael Laxer
May 91 min read
Daily LIFT #1341
Autoworkers 1976, oil painting, Dmitry Pavlovich Shushkalov USSR -- Daily LIFT #1341
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Michael Laxer
May 51 min read
Daily LIFT #1337
Marx addresses a meeting of the First International, pencil drawing, Nikolai Nikolaevich Zhukov, USSR 1939-40. Karl Marx was born May 5,...
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Michael Laxer
May 21 min read
Daily LIFT #1334
Rusakovsky Tram Park, painting Samuil Adlivankin, USSR 1928 -- Daily LIFT #1334
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Michael Laxer
Apr 272 min read
Streets of Stalingrad (Volgograd) USSR 1970s
We have looked several times at the history of the Battle of Stalingrad and the city that it occurred in in posts like Victory at...
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Michael Laxer
Apr 191 min read
Daily LIFT #1223
Lenin Centennial Stamp Design, USSR 1970 -- Daily LIFT #1223 With a portrait by Nikolay Andreyev and the words "The Name of Vladimir...
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Michael Laxer
Apr 142 min read
CPSU: Hero Fighting Party of the USSR
"Politruk" Junior Political Officer Alexey Yeremenko leading a counterattack against enemy positions moments before being killed in July,...
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Michael Laxer
Apr 134 min read
Amílcar Cabral in Moscow 1971: Speech at the 24th Congress of the CPSU
Cabral, on the left, with another delegate to the Congress in Moscow, 1971 The immortal and unique genius of Lenin and his teachings are...
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Michael Laxer
Apr 124 min read
The Decline of Extreme Poverty
Celebrations of the 100th anniversary of the Communist Party of China, 2021 By Saurav Sarkar One of the foremost accomplishments of the...
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Michael Laxer
Apr 101 min read
Daily LIFT #1215
The Crossing Monument, Zaporizhzhia, Ukrainian USSR, USSR 1985 -- Daily LIFT #1215 A monument erected in honour of the 25th anniversary...
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Michael Laxer
Apr 102 min read
David Bowie in the USSR
While the photos of singer David Bowie in the capital of the Soviet Union are cool enough, the story of how Bowie got to Moscow is really...
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Michael Laxer
Apr 101 min read
Soviet Blagoveshchensk on the Amur River, USSR 1977
Published in 1977 this postcard folder has images of the Far Eastern river city of Blagoveshchensk that was in the Amur Oblast of the...
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Michael Laxer
Apr 91 min read
Daily LIFT #1214
The Oil Prospectors, illustration USSR 1963 -- Daily LIFT #1214
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