White Russian military post (may also house prisoners)in Barnaul Altai Krai, Russia. A soldier stands on guard tower and a sentry seen walking a perimeter post. Large group of Peasant recruits entering through the gate. They pose in the yard of the post. Two French officers pose with White Russian soldiers. Recruits seated on the ground listening to two officers standing amongst them.
The polyglot crowd and Commander Fraziar at a port in Vladivostok, Russia, at end of World War 1. Crowd behind railing on pier. Various views of the crowd. Commander Fraziar of the American Red Cross, talks with groups of women and children. He poses with Red Cross representatives of other countries.
During the Russian Civil War, White Russian troops, under command of Admiral Aleksandr Vasilevich Kolchak, parade as he and other reviewing officers salute them, from sidelines near spectators in Barnaul Altai Krai, Siberia, Russia. After the army parade, local spectators disperse and return to their homes. Views of artillery soldiers with their field pieces being inspected by officer on horseback. Several White Russian cavalry soldiers pose on horseback in yard of a stockade. Wooden log building visible in background.
Russian people going about their routine activities in Petrograd, Russia, immediately following World War One. People walk on the snow covered sidewalks. The city looks metropolitan, with offices and shops. A horse-drawn sled moves on the street. Women perform heavy labor shoveling snow.
Slate reads; "Peace with Russia Meeting. Demonstration to advocate recognition of Soviet Government held in Trafalgar Square." A large crowd is gathered at the Square. Several speakers address them from the base of Nelson's Column (A400 Trafalgar Square, London, United Kingdom), next to the lion statues. One banner seen reads: "prepare to lay down tools," pointed at working men. A call for "copper donations" results in an outpouring of pennies, which men pick up from the ground and carry to the front where one of the only women seen, is consolidating the contributions. Two men converse. One wears a fez.
Final throes of World War I and postwar situation. German submarines sinking allied ships. American workers work in war plants. U.S. Army General John Joseph Pershing visits France. American soldiers disembark from a ship in France. Germans defeat Russians on Eastern front and divert troops to the Western front. German soldiers on horse drawn wagons and others walk carrying guns as they move. Riots in Russia after it collapses in war. American soldiers fire field artillery. U.S. President Woodrow Wilson writes letters to countries at war like Germany. Papers with the 14 points to maintain peace. The soldiers of Germany and America on battle field. Dead soldiers on ground. Soldiers carry another injured soldier on a stretcher. The people protest during a rebellion in Germany. Soldiers of America cheer signing of Armistice. Cemetery. .Americans on streets in the U.S. after the war. President Woodrow Wilson goes on a tour of Europe. He sails to different places. Prime Minister David Lloyd George of the United Kingdom, Prime Minister Vittorio Emanuele Orlando of Italy, Prime Minister Georges Clemenceau of France, and President Woodrow Wilson of the United States in France during the signing of the Treaty of Versailles. Map shows the different nations formed after the war. The president returns after his visit. Henry Cabot Lodge, a U.S. senator. President visits different places to explain the peace treaty. Sketches show the President suffering a paralytic stroke and his wife takes his important decisions. Sketch depict the opponents of the peace treaty and the defeat of the league of nations. Warren Gamaliel Harding elected as the new President Harbinger of the future: views of Adolf Hitler on the rise in postwar Germany.