lenin and the bolsheviks

Video clip from the 1939 soviet film "Lenin in 1918" / Music from civil war era

THE RUSSIAN REVOLUTION After the events of Bloody Sunday (1905), Trotsky secretly returned to Russia in February 1905. At first he wrote leaflets for an underground printing press in Kiev, but soon moved to the capital, Saint Petersburg. There he worked with both Bolsheviks like Central Committee member Leonid Krasin as well as the local Menshevik committee, which he pushed in a more radical direction. The latter, however, was betrayed by a secret police agent in May. Trotsky had to flee to ...

November the 7th 1917 was one of the most significant days in Russian history, when Lenin and the Bolshevik movement decided the timing was right for revolution. The Bolsheviks stormed the Winter Palace - which was then the seat of the government - to seize power, imposing a new regime which was to last for 70 years.

WATCH IN HIGH QUALITY·Lenin in Newsreels (1923). This compilation of Lenin's public appearances was taken from various issues of the official Soviet newsreel, Goskinokalendar. Vladimir Ilich at Sverdlov's funeral in 1919. Lenin at the ceremonial laying of the first stone for the K. Marx monument on Theater square. ************************************* Lenin at the inauguration of the Marx & Engels monument. Lenin at the opening of the All Russian Congress on Out-of-School Education. Lenin at ...

USSR/STALIN GLORY(with the Anthem of Bolshevik Party)! English lyrics - Anthem of Bolshevik Party (1939): Free children of a state unprecedented [until now], Today we sing our proud song About the most powerful party in the world, About our greatest man ever. CHORUS : Surrounded with glory, soldered by [our] will, Grow stronger and live for eternity The party of Lenin, the party of Stalin Wise party of Bolsheviks! You have created a country on our land [starting] from the Kremlin, The able ...