Foreign military intervention and civil war (1918-1920)

Photograph of a meeting of the Council of People's Commissars of the RSFSR of the first composition in early 1918. Steam billowing from factory horns.

Barbed wire against the backdrop of St Isaac's Square in Petrograd.

A detachment of revolutionary sailors marching through Gatchina.

Panorama of the deck of a British battleship (top).

Warships on the march.

British soldiers who landed in the North of Russia in March 1918. Landing of Japanese troops in Vladivostok.

American troops at the pier in Murmansk, a warship at the pier (panorama).

A unit of British troops marching along the pier.

German troops on the streets of Kyiv in June 1918. Panorama of a railway junction, carriages and platforms being unloaded.

British tanks on platforms.

Columns of armored cars and automobiles moving along the roads of the South of Russia.

Views of the towers of the Moscow Kremlin.

Interior of V.I. Lenin's office. in the Kremlin.

Photograph of Lenin reading the newspaper Pravda at his desk in 1918. Maps and diagrams of troop dispositions sent to Lenin in 1918. Map of European Russia on the wall of Lenin's office.

Telephone on the desk.

Switchboard in Lenin's office.

Lenin speaking at a meeting of the Second Congress of the Comintern in the Tauride Palace in Petrograd on July 19, 1920. The Red Army brass band playing.

Red Hungarian volunteers during a parade.

Chinese internationalist volunteers in formation (panorama).

Loading weapons onto a truck.

Red Army cavalry units at a parade on the Eastern Front in 1918-1919. Sailors and Red Army soldiers dancing to the accordion on the deck of a steamship sailing along the Volga.

Photograph of Lenin presiding over a meeting of the Council of People's Commissars in October 1918.

American soldiers in a launch push off from a warship during the landing at Arkhangelsk in August 1918. A Japanese warship at the Vladivostok roadstead.

A sentry at the stern flag on a Japanese ship.

Meeting the invaders in Vladivostok.

British and French invaders march through the city streets.

British marines enter the gates of the British consulate.

The face of a British sentry standing guard at the consulate.

The face of a Japanese sentry.

British warships at anchor.

The burnt and decomposed corpses of people shot by the invaders.

Photographs of victims of foreign military intervention and executions.

Lenin V.I. speaks at a rally on Red Square on March 18, 1919, the day of the funeral of Ya.M. Sverdlov.

Panorama of part of the rally.

Lenin, sitting at the side of a truck on Red Square, shakes hands with a participant in the parade of the Vsevobuch troops on May 25, 1919. A painting depicting I.V. Stalin and K.E. Voroshilov during the defense of Tsaritsyn.

A Red Army unit on the march.