The aftermath of the World War I. People of America celebrate the end of the war. Soldiers aboard a ship as they return back to America. Several scenes of America before war. A parade. Sketch depicts the era during the presidency of Thomas Woodrow Wilson. Soldiers on the battlefield fight and fire artillery. A parade in America. Sketches depict the willingness of Woodrow Wilson to join the league of nations and America's refusal to join it. Woman of America casts her vote. Sketches depict the financial status of the Americans and the inflation after the war. Steel workers on strike. The policeman go on a strike in Boston. Sketch depicts the unsafe cities of United States. Picture of John Calvin Coolidge, Governor of Massachusetts. The governor inspects new police force after the strike is called off. Sketches of the revolution in Russia. Papers shows the various communist revolutions. Several sketches show the formation of communist party in America. A bomb packet reads name of John Davison Rockefeller, an American industrialist. Explosion occurs in a wagon. People injured and loss of property due to explosion. Police arrests the suspects. Sketches of the various strikes and disorders in America. Sketches of the immigrants to the United States. An official checks the immigrants. The U.S. Senator Warren Gamaliel Harding addresses the people. Harding with Thomas Woodrow Wilson in a car . Sketches compare the two Presidents.
Soviet prisoners of war march along the street of a town in the Ukraine during the short war between Poland and Soviet Russia following World War 1. Trees in the background. Two Polish officers are seen, outside a hut, giving instructions to two prisoners, who are then led away by an armed guard. An area filled with potatoes, on the ground. Prisoners take some of the potatoes away in cartons. Prisoners are seen eating bread.
Civilians holding personal mess pans line up and enter a building. A Russian soldier, with rifle slung over his shoulder, stands outside the building and watches the men.
World War I views of Russia including both pre Russian Revolution scenes and post-revolution scenes. Opening scene shows workmen and soldiers at a construction (or rebuilding site) in Russia. Ordinary shops seen, closed with metal barriers across their fronts, on a commercial district street. Russian troops marching in review before Tsar Nicholas II, and other mounted officers, in a square in Russia. A military band marching across the square, watched by Russian troops in formation and by spectators. In post revolution Russia, An open phaeton car drives into the midst of a crowd of Russian soldiers and civilians. Three principal occupants step from the car including an officer carrying a bouquet of flowers. (Some enthusiastic bystanders show great interest in the car. At least one climbs into it.) The car's occupants next appear on the balcony of the Hotel National in Moscow, where they are greeted by a large crowd assembled below them. Abrupt change of scene shows Russian Tsar Nicholas II, on horseback, reviewing troops, who hold aloft a banner reading "Warrier," among other things. He continues past civilians assembled, holding various banners.
Czar Nicholas II out of power in Russia and the Bolsheviks gain power after the October Revolution (Russian Revolution). Romanav dynasty Emperor Nicholas II with his family including son Alexis and his four daughters and his wife at his palace in Moscow. Czar Nicholas II and his courtiers review troops of Russian Cossack soldiers at his palace for the last time. Czar's Russian soldiers march across frozen and snow-covered battlefields. Wounded Russian soldiers return to their villages from World War 1. Soldiers see the starving Russian citizens and begin to mutiny and the front and stop fighting. View of Alexander Kerensky with a crowd after he comes to power in Russia in February 1917 revolution and soon after the Bolsheviks gain rule of Russia in October Revolution. Parade of people and soldiers with pro Bolshevik signs and banners during the revolution. Russian soldiers of the Red Army parade with Commander Leon Trotsky at Red Square in Moscow. A famine strikes Russia and people struggel during the famine. View of snow covered streets and Russian citizens struggling with famine. Young children and orphans are fed at group tables assembled outside on a snowy plaza. Bolshevik leader Vladimir Lenin seen at his desk in his office in the Kremlin, talking. View of Lenin's wife, Nadezhda Krupskaya, taking notes.
U.S. Army trucks of the 1919 motor transport convoy drive past a moving trolley car on a street in Oakland, California. Spectators gather along side of street at ferry slip to watch as convoy trucks board a ferry boat for trip to San Francisco. Several men watch from upper deck of the ferry. A boy with a bicycle watches from beside a fence. View from upper deck of the ferry boat, of trucks driving aboard. A line of civilian cars sits to the side as the army vehicles drive aboard. View from the ferry boat underway in San Francisco harbor. Next, the convoy is seen driving along street in San Francisco, on September 7, 1919. The Mayor of San Francisco, James Rolph Jr., conversing with officers of the convoy, as they stand on a flag wrapped stand during a formal greeting ceremony. More views of convoy trucks in the city and lined up on hill overlooking San Francisco Bay.