View from a high point overlooking a peaceful demonstration at Red Square in Moscow during World War 1. The State Museum in the background. The square filled with several parallel lines of marching people. Others sit in grandstands watching. Some marchers carry banners.
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.
Scenes of October revolution in Petrograd, Russia, during World War 1. Bolshevik Red Guards forces, waving red flags, charge across a square in military vehicles, followed by numerous others running to take over government buildings. on 24 October 1917.
Staged scenes, showing peasants armed with farm implements moving against a town, and Russian Cossacks of Imperial guards responding on horseback to stop them and restore order.
The October, 1917 revolution in Russia, during World War 1. Opening scene shows an explosion at the base of a tall column topped by a winged figure with outstretched arms. The column and statue teeter and then fall in a crash to the ground. Within the same scenes another similar collumn stands, but any statue it contained is gone. Next, a Bolshevik rioter is seen on a ladder, prying a large bas relief statue of Romanov double eagle from face of a building. It falls and breaks into many pieces on the ground.
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.
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