Marxist Gallery

Lenin, (c1930), (1939). Creator: Aleksandr Gerasimov

Lenin, (c1930), (1939). Portrait of Russian communist revolutionary Vladimir Ilich Lenin (1870-1924). Lenin was the first Soviet head of state, prime minister of the USSR, and founder of the Bolsheviks. He is depicted here with the red flag and holding a sickle, symbols of communism. From Stalin on Lenin. [Foreign Languages Publishing House, Moscow, 1939]

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Communards in the Place Vendome during the Paris Commune, 1871 (b/w photo)

701416 Communards in the Place VendA´me during the Paris Commune, 1871 (b/w photo) by French Photographer, (19th century); Private Collection; (add.info.: The Paris Commune or Fourth French Revolution was a government that briefly ruled Paris for two months in the spring of 1871. Photographs such as this, taken as mementos, were used after the downfall of the commune to identify, and sometimes execute, the participants.); French, out of copyright

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H.M. Hyndman, founder of first British Socialist political party

KDC384127 H.M. Hyndman, founder of first British Socialist political party, illustration from Frank Leslie's Popular Monthly, 1886 (engraving) by Leslie, Frank (1821-80); Private Collection; (add.info.: Henry Mayers Hyndman (1842-1921) founder of the Social Democratic Federation (SDF), first Socialist political party in Great Britain in 1881; advocated a 48 hour working week, abolition of child labour, compulsory and free education, equality for women and nationalisation of production and distribution; among the notable members of the party were William Morris, George Lansbury, Ben Tillett, Edward Aveling, Ramsay Macdonald, Edward Carpenter, Dora Montefiore and Eleanor Marx (daughter of Karl Marx); Frank Leslie's Popular Monthly was an American magazine established in 1876 by Frank Leslie as "the cheapest magazine published in the world';); American, out of copyright

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