Revolution and civil war in Russia (1917-1920)

The text of V.V. Mayakovsky's poem "Left March" published in the newspaper "Art of the Commune" on January 12, 1919. Units of the Red Army march through the streets of the city during the May Day celebrations of 1918. Boarding of revolutionary sailors on a train before being sent to the front, loading of weapons and boxes of ammunition into cars.

Loading of ammunition onto a platform with an artillery piece installed on it.

Cars of the departing train with sailors.

Red Guards with rifles running to the assembly point.

View of a rally at one of the factories in 1917. Photo by M.V. Frunze.

Parade of one of the units of the Red Army in the autumn of 1918, photo of Frunze speaking at the rally.

Demonstration in Petrograd during the February events of 1917. May Day banner in Petrograd in 1917. May Day marches and demonstrations in Petrograd.

An armed unit of the Red Guard marches along one of the streets of Petrograd.

Views of the May Day rally of 1917 on the Field of Mars, the arrival of the demonstration columns.

Demonstration in Petrograd in March-April 1917 under the slogan of self-determination of nations.

Columns of the May Day demonstration on Nevsky Prospect.

The movement of columns of the May Day demonstration along the streets of Petrograd, banners with slogans above the columns of demonstrators.

Panorama of part of the May Day rally on the Field of Mars, another speaker speaks.

Faces of the rally participants.

View of part of the rally at the tribune of the RSDLP. Lenin V.I. at the foundation of the monument to Marx and Engels on May 1, 1920. An orator from the RSDLP speaks at the May Day rally of 1917 in Petrograd.

A military brass band plays.

The speaker greets the participants of the rally, finishes his speech.

Soldiers of armored units at the May Day rally.

A cruiser in the Gulf of Finland.

A column of the May Day demonstration passes.

Dybenko P.E. in October 1917. The movement of one of the columns of the May Day demonstration.

Typewritten text of "Milyukov's Notes" in French.

One of the columns of the May Day demonstration passes along the Field of Mars.

Milyukov P.N. leaves the building of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

A sailor speaks at a rally in the courtyard of the barracks in front of soldiers of the Semenovsky Regiment in April 1917. Leaflets being dropped from trucks on the streets of Petrograd during the campaign for elections to the Constituent Assembly.

An RSDLP propaganda truck on the streets of Petrograd.

A speaker giving a speech at one of the pre-election rallies in Petrograd.

Panorama of the rally, leaflets flying.

A poster with a diagram of the increase in arms production by Russia.

A poster in a shop window calling for subscription to the "Freedom Loan".

Leaflets being distributed from trucks on the streets of Petrograd.

Parade on Red Square.

Personnel of one of the women's shock battalions in formation on Red Square during a prayer service before being sent to the front on June 27, 1917. Presentation of the banner to the women's shock battalion.

Drill exercises in one of the women's shock battalions in Petrograd in the summer of 1917. Commander of the Petrograd Military District, General Polovtsev P.A., observes the drill exercises; women march in formation.

View of one of the rallies in Petrograd for the elections to the Constituent Assembly in November 1917. Demonstrations in Petrograd in March-April 1917, slogans in the hands of demonstrators.

View of one of the rallies in Petrograd for the elections to the Constituent Assembly in November 1917. Demonstrations in Petrograd in March-April 1917, slogans in the hands of demonstrators.

Demonstrators, passing in a column, wave their hats.

The movement of a demonstration along one of the streets of Petrograd (above).

The movement of a demonstration along Sadovaya Street in July 1917. The shooting of the July demonstration on Liteiny Prospekt in Petrograd (staging, fragments of the film "October").

The destroyed premises in the Kshesinskaya Palace (fragments of the film "October").

The personnel and equipment of the 46th Freight Automobile Detachment line up on one of the city streets.

Cars and trucks lined up on the street.

Red Army soldiers with the detachment banner.

Red Army units march through the city streets in 1919. A railway repair crew lubricates and cleans the units and assemblies of a steam locomotive.

A clean-up day to collect firewood at the Moscow-Sorting Depot on May 1, 1919. A parade of Red Army units on the city streets.

Columns of the May Day demonstration march past.

The leaders of one of the districts watch the demonstration.

A review of the parade formation of troops.

Red Army commanders greet the troops.

A military brass band plays, the faces of the musicians.

Red Army soldiers camouflage a dugout during exercises.

A field exercise in a communications unit.

Red Army soldiers in ambush during exercises.

A mounted patrol passes by.

Commanders during reconnaissance.

The commissar speaks to Red Army soldiers and local residents at a rally.

Faces of the rally participants (panorama).

Red Army soldiers during a rest (panorama).

Faces of commanders standing at the rostrum.

Panorama of a part of a populated area (from above).

Firing from an artillery piece mounted on a railway platform.

A military convoy in the steppe, Red Army soldiers lying on the ground (panorama).

A machine-gun crew fires from a Maxim machine gun mounted on a tripod.

Warships at anchor (panorama).

Loading boxes into a railcar.

A Red Army rifle unit during exercises, machine-gun crews maneuvering.

Red Army soldiers boarding a railcar.

Distribution of newspapers and leaflets to Red Army soldiers at a railway station.

Loading property onto a platform with an artillery piece mounted on it.

Panorama of a railway echelon, an armoured train passing by.

Construction of field fortifications, moving soil with shovels (panorama).

Commanders of Red Army units discuss current issues.

A man climbs over a trench.

A searchlight unit of Ataman Annenkov's troops moves past a train.

The inscription on the searchlight shutters: "God and Ataman in our dreams!" Panorama of a burning train.

Panorama of the skeletons of burnt carriages.