March 1917 revolution in Russia. Russians marching on the streets of Petrograd (now known as Saint Petersburg). A man throws Bolshevik leaflets at a passing tram. Men and women grab leaflets. More communist pamphlets and leaflets thrown at crowds. Crowds holding handwritten signs in Russian as they parade in the streets. Crowds waving their hats. Bolshevik men and women in uniform raise their swords. Russians with rifles and hats smiling. A Bolshevik soldier smashes a Russian Empire double headed eagle (Crest of the Royal Family) with the butt of his rifle from the facade of a building. Russian crowds gathered in a square.
The 40th Anniversary Parade in Moscow, celebrating the anniversary of the founding of the Soviet Union. Red Square, Russia, during a parade. Soviet dignitaries stand at reviewing point. Marshal Rodion Malinovsky, the USSR Defense Minister, salutes from a moving car. Civilian spectators stand on the street. Marshal Rodion Malinovsky steps out from the car. Malinovsky speaks on microphone. Russian naval and infantry troops in review. Troops march with rifles. Soviet missiles towed in parade. People applaud. Giant missile towed in parade, another giant missile in the background. People applaud. St Basil's Cathedral on Red Square. Parade passes with picture of Lenin. Nikita Khrushchev, Marshal Kliment Voroshilov, and People’s Republic of China Chairman Mao Zedong wave. Delegates from China are seen watching the parade. Girl athletes are present in the parade. Globe of world with flashing lights encircling it, representing the successful launch the month before of the Sputnik 1 satellite orbiting the earth. A balloon representing a Sputnik launch rocket is released in the air.
The Battle of Stalingrad in USSR during World War 2. A map depicts the eastern front German advance into Stalingrad, Soviet Union. German and Italian skirmishers crouch and advance in a field on the outskirts of Stalingrad, Russia. Axis soldiers advance under the cover of tanks and artillery. German Luftwaffe aircraft provide aerial support. Troops enter Stalingrad. Street fighting in the city. Soldiers amidst war damaged buildings and structures. Wrecked abandoned Russian tanks and war equipment. Rubble on the streets. Military equipment on rail cars. Damaged Soviet factories and plants. The war torn city.
Battle scenes outside the snow covered city of Stalingrad, Russia, Soviet Union, as Soviet forces attack German forces that had encircled the city. Aerial view of Soviet Sukhoi Su-2 light bomber aircraft as it releases bombs on Nazi German positions. Soviet soldiers on the ground using flame throwers against German positions. Three Soviet RF-8 (GAZ-98) Aerosled (aircraft engine powered ice sled) are seen racing by camera position over snow covered terrain. Large batteries of Katyusha rocket launchers fire rockets toward German positions. Soviet soldiers advancing across open fields. Map depicting how Axis power was squeezed in early 1943 and defeated by the Soviet forces that had encircled it during Operation Uranus in late November 1942. Scenes of ruined city of Stalingrad from bombing in World War 2. A soviet soldier covers an artillery gun barrel after it fires a last shot in February 1943. Powerful sceneshowing bombed out Stalingrad buildings and one large building on fire, with a lifesize outdoor art sculpture of happy Soviet children playing in a circle in the foreground. Soviet civilians greet and embrace the defending Soviet soldiers and fly a Soviet flag. Group of German soldiers waving a white flag emerge from a blockhouse and surrender as prisoners of war to Soviet soldiers. Contingent of senior German generals and officers under Friedrich Paulus are seen during surrender, including General Walther von Seydlitz-Kurzbach. General Arthur Schmidt, General Maximilian von Daniels, and General Edler von Daniel.
Nikita Khrushchev waves and smiles from a moving train car. Narrator relates that Khrushchev has resigned from his post as Soviet Premier. Khruschev at a meeting. Scenes from Khrushchev's career. Khruschev shakes hand with Chinese communist leader Chairman Mao Zedong and they exchange books in a signing ceremony. Khruschev shaking hands with President Nasser of Egypt. Khruschev at UN meeting in 1960 tries to purge Secretary General Dag Hammarskjöld. Khruschev speaking in a loud and animated fashion and shaking his fist from the UN podium. Khrushchev and other Soviet UN members pound their fists on their desks to disrupt the UN meeting. View of a May Day parade underway in Soviet Russia's Red Square. Khruschev waves at attendees of the May Day parade at Red Square. Leonid Brezhnev and Aleksei Kosygin seated with Khrushchev at a Soviet Central Committee meeting. Brezhnev at podium clapping hands as others in the Central Committee Hall stand and clap in a standing ovation. Brezhnev addresses people. Khrushchev in a large gathering hall with many celebrants at his 70th birthday celebration. He is shown smiling and laughing. He stands during a toast. Many medals are pinned on his jacket.
Wide views of the Kremlin in Moscow, Russia, Soviet Union. Cars and traffic on busy streets of city of Moscow. Molotov, Foreign Minister, welcomes a number of dignitaries at airport and at a railroad station in Moscow, Soviet Union, as they arrive for the "European Conference on Peace and Security in Europe" held from November 20 - December 2, 1954 (a Soviet-organized event serving as a propaganda counter to NATO and western alliances). Scenes at airport as locomotive train and railroad cars arriving at railway station and dignitaries of various soviet regions greet Molotov and other officials. Dignitaries including representatives of Estonia, Latvia and Czechoslovakia review honor guards and parades.