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View of port facilities of Archangel (Arkhangelsk) in Northern Russia
Views from a moving boat on the Northern Dvina river. Port facilities, cranes, some ships anchored and others underway in the harbor. City can be seen in the backdrop. [Note: Footage from the United States Army 85th Division, 339th Infantry, American Expeditionary Force North Russia, participating as part of the Triple Entente forces, in the so-called "Polar Bear Expedition." ] (World War I; World War 1; WWI; WW1)
Civil war breaks out in Russia after Brest-Litovsk Peace Treaty, in year after Russian Revolution
After Lenin makes peace with Germany, civil war breaks out in Russia. White Russian troops are seen fighting against Bolshevik troops in the snow. American soldiers, supporting the White Russians, are seen in Archangel (Arkhangelsk). Cossacks on horseback carry the Tsarist flag. The Romanovs, Tsar Nicholas II and his family are photographed outdoors seated on a wooden bench by barricade fence at Ipatiev House in Ekaterinburg. Bolsheviks arresting other revolutionaries who were opposed to them, and executing them by firing squad. Vladimir Lenin with cat in his lap. View of Fanny Yefimovna Kaplan (AKA "Dora") who attempted to assassinate Lenin on August 30, 1918. View of Lenin speaking to Soviet workers. Newspaper of September 1, 1918 reports on the assassination attempt, with dateline London, August 31st: "Lenin wounded twice by assassin. Attempt on Red Premier's life at Moscow. Commissary Uritzky murdered at Petrograd." Crowd in turmoil in Moscow. Newspaper reports capture of would-be assassin, noting that "official Bolshevist paper says, "She is girl of intellectual class." Narrator states that some 500 anti-Bolsheviks are executed in Moscow.
White Russian infantry advance along the snow covered slopes during Russian Civil War.
White Russian infantry in Russia during Russian Civil War. They are heavily clothed and carry rifles with fixed bayonets, as they march in line, over snow covered road. The Russian infantry fan out as they ascend a wide snow covered hill. Views of Port city of Archangel.
Russians mistreated by government prior to abdication of Tsar Nicholas II. Latvian soldiers executed by German firing squad
Shows government suppression of Bolsheviks around time of Russian Revolution, and before the 1917 abdication of Tsar Nicholas II, in Russia, and by German forces in post-war Latvia, in 1919. Imperial Russian troops intrude on a gathering of persons ostensibly opposed to Tsarist policies. Slate states such persons are accused of "Pro-Germanism." View of a damaged prison building and high guard tower. View of women and children in a large common cell of the prison. View of prison wall from outside, with barred windows evident. Women walking about inside the prison, as an Imperial Russian guard walks past the cell. View through a barred window. The final short sequence was filmed near Riga, on May 26, 1919, by American Army cameraman, Lieutenant Johnson, who was in Latvia as part of a U.S. post-war relief effort. It shows three Latvian Bolshevik soldiers facing a German firing squad. Boots of the condemned (which were valuable) have been removed. The firing squad executes the Latvian soldiers. Next, the bodies of the victims are seen in a ditch where they had fallen. (Note: This entire film includes a mix of staged theatrical and documentary scenes from various sources, times, and places.)
The Red Army marches from Moscow to enter battle during the Polish-Soviet war
Crowds surround Soviet Red Army soldiers heading toward the Polish front following rising tensions that finally broke into open war (the Polish-Soviet war) in 1919. Red Army soldiers march across Red Square, in Moscow, Russia. The Kremlin and St. Basil's cathedral are seen in background. People carry various banners. A military band leads a contingent of soldiers in a parade along a street, followed by soldiers literally marching under a banner of "Communism." Elsewhere, on Red Square, people are assembled and hold banners. Scene shifts to Voskresenskaya Square (now Revolution Square) where huge crowd is gathered around the Memorial to Marx and Engels, which is placarded with a sign and surrounded by several persons holding large flags aloft. Camera pans across the square where people seem to be enjoying the festivities.
Vladimir Lenin addressing the crowd and assembly of soldiers.
Russian leader Lenin seen among the crowd. Lenin addressing the crowd. He is shown giving speech to an assembly of soldiers. 13 March 1919.
