Leaders of World Communism (1917-1956)

Panorama of the rally in Petrograd in 1920. Lenin V.I. during a conversation in the Kremlin with the American journalist L. Eyre in January 1920. Lenin V.I. on a walk in the Kremlin courtyard on October 16, 1918, after recovering from a wound.

Stalin I.V. during the May Day military parade.

Zinoviev G.E. Seratti D. in the Tauride Palace during the meeting of the 2nd Congress of the Comintern in Petrograd on July 19, 1920. Seratti speaks from the rostrum.

German delegate Levi P. speaks from the rostrum.

French delegate Rosmer A. speaks from the rostrum.

The participants of the meeting rise from their seats and applaud.

Lenin V.I. speaks from the rostrum in the Tauride Palace on July 19, 1920, next to Lenin is Radek K.B. Panorama of the meeting hall, the delegates applaud.

Paintings dedicated to Lenin’s arrival in Petrograd in April 1917 and his participation in preparing the armed uprising.

Zinoviev G.E. at the table in his office (close-up).

People’s Commissar of Posts and Telegraphs of the RSFSR Proshyan P.P. stands by the car.

People’s Commissar of Food of the RSFSR Tsyurupa A.D. stands at the entrance to the building.

Poet Demyan Bedny stands by the carriage, smoking a cigarette.

Member of the Revolutionary Military Council Sklyansky E.M. in the courtyard of the Kremlin.

Bela Kun among figures of the Hungarian Soviet Republic.

Panorama of the funeral rally on Red Square on the day of Ordzhonikidze G.K.’s funeral in February 1937. A unit of the Moscow garrison at the parade on Red Square in 1945.

A cadet unit of the Moscow Infantry School named after the Supreme Soviet of the RSFSR at the parade on Red Square in 1945. Mikoyan AI, Voznesensky NA, Zhdanov AA on the mausoleum tribune in 1946-1948. Kaganovich LM and Andreev AA on the mausoleum tribune.

Beria LP on the mausoleum tribune.

Trotsky LD gives an interview during his stay in Mexico in 1937-1940, reads the text (synchronously, subtitles in German).

Stalin IV on the mausoleum tribune.

Stalin I.V. on the rostrum of the mausoleum during the May Day demonstration of 1946-1948. Stalin takes a girl in his arms on the rostrum of the mausoleum, Bulganin N.A., Malenkov G.M., Beria L.P. are standing nearby.

Portraits of Stalin above the columns of demonstrators.

May Day demonstration in Berlin in the late 1940s, the demonstrators carry a portrait of Stalin, Telmann.

A photograph of Stalin in a coffin in the Column Hall of the House of Unions and Leaders of the CPSU in the honor guard at the coffin.

Malenkov G.M. speaks from the rostrum in the Kremlin in 1954-1955. Bulganin N.A. delivers a speech from the rostrum of the mausoleum during the celebrations of November 7. Khrushchev N.S. speaking from the rostrum in the Kremlin in the mid-1950s, with Shvernik N.M., Malenkov G.M., Bulganin N.A., and Voroshilov K.E. sitting in the presidium behind him.

The meeting hall of the SED Congress in Berlin.

Ulbricht W. speaking from the rostrum.

Delegates applauding.

Military parades of the Red Army and the armies of the USA and Great Britain.

Bust of Stalin.

Young Pioneers running up the steps to the monument to Stalin.

Trotsky L.D. and the poet Demyan Bedny on board a steamship during a trip along the Volga in 1918-1919. Red Army soldiers in the trenches fighting on the approaches to Petrograd in October 1919, during the offensive of Yudenich’s troops.

Trotsky speaking at a rally in front of Red Army soldiers during a trip along the Eastern Front.

A detachment of armed Red Guards and sailors marches through the streets of Gatchina in November 1917. Lenin in a coffin in the Column Hall of the House of Unions in January 1924. Refugees at a railway station during the civil war.

Loading sacks of grain onto the steamship "Red Star" in 1919. Refugees at railway stations.

Refugees walk along the road, pushing handcarts with belongings.

Rural landscape, houses with straw roofs.

Participants in the November demonstration dressed as bourgeois, priests and Western politicians.

Revolutionary sailors attack the enemy (fragment of the film).