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Mobs and Imperial Russian soldiers participate in revolts in Petrograd, Russia in time of Russian Revolution
Slate refers to March 17, 1917, when Russian Tsar Nicholas II abdicated, and a Provisional Government was formed in Petrograd (St. Petersburg) during World War 1. It is followed by a few scenes from what appears to be a staged film enactment of a mob storming a palace. Soldiers and citizens, carrying sticks and clubs, rush up a stairway inside, while others are seen charging an entrance and beating on palace gates. A statue of the Russian Imperial Seal is seen with one eagle head broken. Next, actual footage shows a prison courtyard littered with debris. Bars on the doors and windows are bent and broken. Several persons are seen moving about in the debris. Later a group of people are seen at work cleaning up debris, placing it into a horse-drawn wagon. Slate compares this event to the fall of the Bastille during the French revolution. Russian soldiers loyal to the Bolsheviks and the Soviet cheer in streets of Petrograd. Armored cars and an artillery field piece are manned by the revolutionary Russian soldiers. A street is filled with Russian soldiers and some civilians.
Study room of Leon Trotsky where attempt on his life was made and his killer Ramón Mercader in a hospital in San Francisco.
Former Soviet leader Leon Trotsky, in exile in Mexico City, Mexico. His study room at his house in Mexico City where death attempt on Leon Trotsky was made. Things in the room and the study table disturbed by the attempt. The killer Ramón Mercader lay injured at a hospital in San Francisco, California.
People gather outside a hospital after an attempt made on life of Leon Trotsky, Russian leader in exile in Mexico City, Mexico.
Former Soviet leader Leon Trotsky, in exile in Mexico City, Mexico. Dignitaries sit at a hospital after Trotsky is admitted to hospital, when an attempt on his life was made. A large group of people talks together standing in a group. Leon Trotsky in bed succumbs to death. A medic releases his body of bandages. Press photographers take photos of dead body of Trotsky.
Mexican communists and large number of civilians gather at hospital where Leon Trotsky died in exile in Mexico City, Mexico.
Former Soviet leader Leon Trotsky, in exile in Mexico City, Mexico. Mexican communist leaders sitting at a hospital after Trotsky admitted to hospital, when an attempt on his life was made. A large group of Mexican communists talk together standing in a group. An ambulance drives out of the hospital. A large assembly of people gathered at the hospital. Leon Trotsky in bed succumbs to death. A medic inspects his body and declares him dead. Crowd of people gathers at the hospital to see the dead body of the great communist leader. Press photographers take photos of dead body of Trotsky.
Mihail Kalinin works with staff attending to requests from petitioners in Moscow, Russia. He gives a speech. Stalin speaking
Russian politician Mihail Ivanovic Kalinin together with members of his office staff works with persons presenting documents that he inspects. He inspects papers from a man and converses at length with him. Kalinin at his desk with papers, and at a podium speaking, with handful of papers. In separate scene, Soviet leader Joseph Stalin, in plain brown uniform, addresses a group of similarly dressed men.
U.S. military experts evaluate Spanish Civil War and predict use of advanced war machinery in future wars, Washington DC.
The Spanish Civil War and preparations of fascist powers in Europe evaluated by U.S. Military experts in Washington DC. Spanish General Francisco Franco reviews his troops. Troops march on streets and salute General Franco. Animated map shows the European countries during the Spanish Civil War. Franco's Nationalists march on roads and his infantrymen and artillery battle with Loyalists. Franco's bombers raid and bomb Madrid. People run for shelter and Insurgent Armor marches on street. Soviet tanks and military aid reaches the Republican loyalists. The Army War College in Washington DC where military experts analyze the tactics used by Fascists, Nationalists and Russians during the civil war. Gas masks, antiaircraft guns, bomber planes, tanks and anti tank guns developed to be used in coming wars of future predicted by the American experts. Scientists work in a laboratory to synthesize poison gases for chemical warfare. The soldiers of Spanish Nationalist Army march on in countryside during the civil war.
