A group of demoralized Russian Provisional Government soldiers in an agricultural field during World War 1. Soldiers remove vermin from their clothing. A soldier takes his shoes off and picks out vermin.
Leon Trotsky, appointed Commissar of War by Lenin, is seen presenting colors to a new unit of Red Guards, during a ceremony in World War 1 and near the time of the Russian Revolution. Trotsky presents the colors and kisses the unit commander. He then salutes the formation of guards.
Dramatized enactment of event ostensibly taking place during World War 1, leading up to the Russian Revolution. Several Bolsheviks are plotting in an upstairs room of a cafe A Czarist policeman knocks at the door. One of the plotters, armed with a pistol approaches the door and shoots the policeman, as he pushes through the door. The policeman then falls down the stairs onto the main floor of the cafe.
Russian troops rest during a snowstorm in World War 1. Russian soldiers chatting, eating from bowls, and drinking while sitting in the snow. Soldiers waiting in line for food. Rifles arranged as tripods. Campfires are erected beside soldiers. Russian soldiers eating soup in front of campfire.
Russian troops celebrate the abdication of Tsar Nicholas II and the end of the Russian monarchy during World War 1. Russian troops wave flags and handmade signs while marching joyously in the snow.
White Russian Guards, who made their headquarters in Alexander Palace, are seen on parade in Palace Square, St. Petersburg. Crowds jam the square to watch the parade. Some spectators scramble up on the ornate palace gates. (During period of Russian Revolution and World War 1.)