Animated map shows shrinking area of Tsarist Russian control as Bolshevik influence from Russian Revolution moves across Russia, leaving central region around Moscow still politically contested. Russian troops run through a snowy rail yard, next to a flat car on which an automobile sits. Bolsheviks board another flat car. Mikhail Kalinin speaks forcefully to a crowd, and later, with a cigarette in his mouth, mingles with young people in the crowd. People receiving Bolshevik newspapers at a train depot. Newsmen conversing. Another speaker delivering an impassioned speech.
Bolshevik leader Vladimir Lenin comes to power in Russia after the Russian Revolution. Lenin talks to Lev Kamenev in the courtyard of Kremlin in Moscow. The two communist leaders talk while walking. Large cannon and the cannon balls. Lenin with his wife Nadezha Krupskaya sitting in his wagon.
Russian leader Lenin in discussion with another leader Mikhail Kalinin in the courtyard of Kremlin. Backside shows a huge cannon and cannon balls visible in the background. Lenin addressing a big crowd in Moscow and Leningrad. 1918. (World War i; World War 1; WWI; WW1)
An Italian Navy Captain standing with a civilian and a colonel of the Italian Alpini (probably Colonnello Fossini Camossi, commander of the Italian Corpo di spedizione italiano in Estremo Oriente, that came to Vladivostok October 17, 1918, on its way to Manchuria, to guard the Tran-Siberian railway). The Navy Captain takes a paper from his coat and discusses contents with the Colonel. Brief view of a squad of Italian soldiers as they present arms, order arms, and assume parade rest, while standing on the sidewalk.
Admiral Aleksandr Vasiliyevich Kolchak, Leader of the White Russian (anti-Bolshevik) forces during the Russian Civil War that followed the Russian Revolution. He descends steps from palace at Omsk, Russia. He salutes an honor guard and enters an open car accompanied by his aides. Scene shifts to peasant recruits drilling in a field. They stand in formation and practice shouldering arms. Final scenes show White Russian troops assembled and on parade in Barnaul, Altai Krai (Russia). A group of soldiers stand by artillery field pieces. Others parade and include contingents of infantry, mounted cavalry, and horse-drawn artillery units. Troops seated on ground beside heavy machine guns. Troops bringing supplies ashore from a small ship on the Ob River.
Russian Crown Jewels. A display of the Czar's jewelery on a table. A crown embedded with jewels in view. Faberge eggs. Various other precious jewelery like bracelets, rings and a sword embedded with diamonds.