Celebrations on the 41st Anniversary of the Soviet Union (following 1917 revolution) in Moscow, Soviet Union. Soldiers parade on a street. Officers and dignitaries including First Secretary Nikita Khrushchev review the parade. A large crowd gathers on the street. Armored vehicles and weapons in the parade. Large balloons shaped like rockets herald the Soviet's Sputnik space program.
Opening scene shows Russian Medical Corpsmen, dressed in white, at an outdoor rail yard where many trains are parked on many tracks. they remove a wounded soldier from a train on a stretcher. the roll him onto a waist-high table, where regular soldiers pose near him. Another wounded soldier on a litter, on the ground, is attended by two medical corpsmen, who bend down to speak to him. View of one Corpsman squatting down next to him and speaking to him. The wounded man moves his arms while conversing with the Corpsmen. Brief view of workmen at a construction site near a railroad line. Using wheel barrows, The workmen off load building materials from a rail car parked in the background, pushing the wheel barrows over planks laid on the ground. A mixed group of Russian military officers posing on a pier. Heavy timbers crossed by steel railroad rails separate the camera from the group.
Crowds surging through Red Square during Bolshevik revolution. View from behind the bronze monument to Minin and Pozharsky, on which someone placed a flag. Kremlin battlements visible in background. Russian Imperial troops seated on the ground. Soldiers laying down their arms on a pile of weapons. Mounted officers leading a long column of unarmed troops along a street in Moscow. Citizens walking along the streets. (World War i; World War 1; WWI; WW1)
Communists march on Moscow street, carrying rifles.Russian military personnel load ammunition, and a French 75 artillery piece, on a flat bed railroad car. Russian woman talks on telephone, outdoors. View, from onboard open rail car, as it proceeds. Flanked by Communist flag, Vladimir Lenin gives a speech from balcony of a building. Flat bed rail car carrying French 75 artillery piece with Communist troops sitting around and on top of it. Point of view shot from atop moving railroad train cars filled with Communist troops. Communist leaders with large stars on their hats. Communist troops line up beside their rail cars at a depot. A band leads Communist marchers. Men ride horses.Crowds walk to assemble in Red Square. A band of muscians plays while holding sheet music in their hands. Vladimir Lenin converses, on podium, with another Communist leader dressed in leather. Russian women and boys read Communist flyer. Lenin speaks to crowd. Behind him is statue of figure in toga, with scroll over left arm while right arm holds aloft a palm branch.Communists parade in Red Square, as Lenin looks on. A momentary glimpse of Soviet Russian troops parading in Red Square some years later.
Russian troops, of the Provisional Government, weary of fighting against the Central Powers, are seen returning home, fording a river on horseback. They stop to check a communications line. City street scene with crowds of military and civilians, some carrying banners, around time of Russian Revolution. (World War I; World War 1; WWI; WW1)
Supporters favoring establishment of the post-war Provisional Government surround Alexander Fyodorovich Kerensky, who became its second Prime Minister. (World War I; World War 1; WWI; WW1)