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Daily LIFT #1615
Sketch for a poster for the 3rd anniversary of the October Revolution, watercolor on half-cardboard, Yuri Bondi, USSR 1920 -- Daily LIFT...

The Left Chapter
Apr 211 min read


Inspired Labour - Tales of Soviet Women Workers for Peace, 1951 #2
From the Soviet Press, 1951 Saida Akhadova "All the women employed at the Stalinabad Textile Mills unanimously signed the Stockholm...

The Left Chapter
Apr 211 min read


Our Revived City of Minsk / Prefabricated Homes - Tales of Soviet Women Workers for Peace, 1951 #1
From the Soviet press, 1951 The Academy of Sciences building Shkel worked on (1968 photo) Lyudmila Shkel, Housepainter: Every time I look...

The Left Chapter
Apr 182 min read


GAZ-69 - Vintage vehicle cards of the USSR #3
From the original Soviet card (translated): GAZ-69 (1953-1971) Passenger-and-freight vehicle with all-wheel drive. Engine capacity - 2112...

The Left Chapter
Apr 161 min read


Daily LIFT #1611
Deputy to the Supreme Soviet of the RSFSR Maria Cherepnina (left) with her family, 1951 -- Daily LIFT #1611 From the Soviet press, April,...

The Left Chapter
Apr 161 min read


Daily LIFT #1610
Youth, painting, V. Yefanov, Member of the USSR Academy of Arts, USSR, 1963 -- Daily LIFT #1610

The Left Chapter
Apr 151 min read


Moscow Borshch and Kiev Cutlet: 2 Soviet recipes 1963
A Soviet cafeteria in 1970 From a Soviet magazine in 1963, two Soviet recipes from when Moscow and Kiev were united in the comradeship of...

The Left Chapter
Apr 152 min read


Lenin in Literature
Article by Vladimir Shcherbina, Soviet Literary Critic, that appeared in USSR Magazine, April, 1948. Soviet writers find in great Lenin a...

The Left Chapter
Apr 124 min read


Daily LIFT #1606
Leningrad tourist poster, 1933 -- Daily LIFT #1606
Michael Laxer
Apr 101 min read


Daily LIFT #1562
Lenin Speaking, illustration, P. Vasiliev, USSR 1940s -- Daily LIFT #1562 A drawing of Lenin as he offered his famous resolution before...

The Left Chapter
Apr 61 min read


Soviet memorials must be defended. Treaties are to be respected.
Defending Soviet memorials also means showing up in large numbers on May 8 and9 - Photo: Little Polar Bear 2015 / Wikimedia Commons / CC...

The Left Chapter
Apr 57 min read


YaAZ-210G Truck - Vintage vehicle cards of the USSR #2
From the original Soviet card (translated): YaAZ-210G Truck (1951-1958) Three-axle truck. Machine with two-stroke six-cylinder diesel...
Michael Laxer
Apr 41 min read


MTB-82 Trolleybus - Vintage vehicle cards of the USSR #1
From the original Soviet card (translated): VEHICLE MTB-82 (1946-1961) was the main city trolleybus in the post-war period. Electric...
Michael Laxer
Mar 301 min read


Daily LIFT #1595
Workers of the world, unite!, poster, Yakov Guminer, poster, USSR 1926 -- Daily LIFT #1595 Sadly, poster artist Guminer died during the...
Michael Laxer
Mar 281 min read


Employment and Labour in the USSR, 1983
Image from a Soviet stamp From the Soviet English language magazine Socialism: Principles, Practice, Prospects, July 1983: Citizens of...

The Left Chapter
Mar 283 min read


Daily LIFT #1593
"Time, March On!", illustration, A. Rudkovich, USSR 1986 -- Daily LIFT #1593
Michael Laxer
Mar 261 min read


Kennedy files reveal that the CIA had an informant in the neo-Nazi NPD in the 1960s
Adolf von Thadden (1921-1996), NSDAP member, parliamentarian (member of the Bundestag and Bundesrat), and head of the NPD, known since...

The Left Chapter
Mar 263 min read


Daily LIFT #1592
Hammer & Sickle illustration, USSR, 1986 -- Daily LIFT #1592
Michael Laxer
Mar 251 min read


Daily LIFT #1586
The Lenin Monument outside the Novosibirsk Institute of Electrical Engineering, Novosibirsk, USSR 1982 -- Daily LIFT #1586
Michael Laxer
Mar 161 min read


"Socialism is a necessity of our time": Portuguese Communist Party on the global struggle of the workers and peoples
Capitalism was not the initial system, nor is it the terminal system, in Humankind’s History. Its revolutionary overcoming and the...
Michael Laxer
Mar 1220 min read
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