Trotsky vs. Stalin (1917-1940)

View of Red Square during the demonstration on November 7, 1919. The face of I. V. Stalin.

The face of L. D. Trotsky, giving a speech.

Forest landscape outside the train car window.

View of a sea bay in winter, the train goes along the shore.

Trotsky, his wife with guests in Mexico in the second half of the 1930s.

Trotsky's face. V. M. Molotov, I. V. Stalin, M. I. Kalinin, K. E. Voroshilov, L. M. Kaganovich among the delegates of the 16th Congress of the All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks).

Life-size puppets depicting priests at the May Day demonstration on Red Square in the second half of the 1920s.

A model of a tractor at the demonstration.

May Day demonstration on Red Square, demonstrators in suits on a truck platform.

Banners above the columns of demonstrators.

A portrait of Stalin above one of the columns of the demonstration.

Stalin in the Kremlin during a meeting.

Kaganovich L.M., Kirov S.M., Ordzhonikidze G.K., Kalinin M.I., Stalin I.V. and Voroshilov K.E. at the table during a meeting (panorama).

Sculpture "Worker and Kolkhoz Woman".

Unloading rock from mine carts.

Kolkhoz women walk with sheaves in their hands.

Women carry sheaves across the field (top).

Handfuls of grain in hands.

Applauding pioneers and Komsomol members, pioneer parade at the stadium (top), Stalin and Kalinin among delegates of the union republics (alternation).

Stalin with a pipe in his mouth in the Kremlin.

Starving peasants.

Payment of food tax, children pick up spilled grain.

Faces of peasants.

View of a rural rally in the late 1920s (top).

Faces of peasants, orator's speech.

Banners with caricatures of local kulaks.

Orator speaking.

Handing over agricultural equipment to a collective farm.

A sleigh train with agricultural equipment passes by.

People sit on the sidewalk in one of the cities.

Panorama of the city market.

Deportation of kulak families.

Panorama of an empty village.

Horses walk along a village street.

Deported women and children walk along the road.

Assortment of goods in one of the Moscow delicatessens in the early 1930s.

Customers at the counter of a grocery store, customer service.

Two men are seated at a table in a restaurant.

A jar of black caviar.

Customers in the restaurant hall.

Passengers in a car, car traffic on one of the streets of Moscow in the second half of the 1920s.

Musical instruments and gramophones behind the glass display case.

Customer service in the perfume department.

A woman with a bottle of perfume.

A manicurist gives a client a manicure.

Sorting coal on a conveyor belt.

Faces of delegates to the next Congress of Soviets.

Demonstration in Moscow in honor of the 20th anniversary of the October Revolution, November 7, 1937. Views of Red Square during the demonstration, Vyshinsky A. Ya. speaks from the rostrum.

Trotsky in Mexico reads aloud his article published in a magazine.

Kaganovich, Stalin and Molotov walk along the territory of the Kremlin.

The granite mausoleum on Red Square in the first half of the 1930s.

Stalin on the rostrum of the mausoleum.

Airplanes fly over the building of the Historical Museum.

Gamarnik Ya. B., Tukhachevsky M. N., Egorov A. I., Budyonny S. M. walk along the wall of the mausoleum.

Voroshilov and Stalin on the rostrum of the mausoleum in 1936-1937. Infantry of the Red Army at the parade on Red Square.

View of Red Square during the military parade (top).

Troops march along Red Square.

The leaders of the USSR and the Red Army command on the mausoleum tribune.

Stalin greets the passing troops.

Military buglers sound the signal.

The leaders of the USSR and the Red Army command on the mausoleum tribune.

Budyonny SM and Yagoda GG on the mausoleum tribune on May 1, 1936. Tukhachevsky MN on the mausoleum tribune.

Stalin and Kaganovich on the mausoleum tribune.

Yezhov NI greeting the passing troops from the mausoleum tribune on May 1, 1937. Troops on Red Square lined up for a parade, the face of a Red Navy sailor alternating with shots of Stalin on the mausoleum tribune.

Navy sailors in parade formation.

Views of Red Square during a military parade.

A bugler sounds the signal.

Performance of the dance group of the Red Army Song and Dance Ensemble under the direction of Alexandrov.

Delegates of the party congress applaud in the hall of the Grand Kremlin Palace.

Stalin on the podium, alternating with the applauding hall.

Performance of the dance group of the Red Army Song and Dance Ensemble under the direction of Alexandrov.

Faces of the delegates.

Kalinin on the podium.

Delegates vote by raising their hands.

Stalin on the podium.

Budyonny applauds, standing in the presidium.

Alternation: voting and applauding delegates, Stalin on the podium, performance of the dance group of the Red Army Song and Dance Ensemble.

Troops on Red Square in 1919. Trotsky speaking from the podium on Red Square.

Faces of Red Army soldiers reciting the oath in chorus.

Charge of the Red Cavalry during the Civil War.

Budyonny and Voroshilov at the parade of the 1st Cavalry Army in 1920. Honorary military guard on the platform.

Trotsky and his entourage walk along the honor guard line.

Posters on the wall of a carriage of an agitation train.

Trotsky, accompanied by Red Army commanders, leaves the building, receives a report during a tour of the fronts in 1919. Faces of Red Army soldiers chewing bread.

Trotsky speaks to Red Army soldiers.

An episode of military operations during World War I. Lenin V.I. speaks on Red Square during the parade of the Vsevobuch troops on May 25, 1919. Panorama of the rally in Petrograd in 1917. Trotsky, standing in the doorway of a train car, gives a speech in April 1917. Kamenev L.B. speaks at a funeral rally on Red Square on the day of Ya.M. Sverdlov's funeral on March 18, 1919. Zinoviev G.E. speaks at Sverdlov's funeral.

Faces of Red Army soldiers.

Checking the pass of an ambulance driver in Petrograd in March 1917. Trucks with soldiers on the streets of Petrograd during the February Revolution.

Trotsky signs the galleys for printing.

A sign above the entrance to the Putilov factory.

The text of the Wehrmacht's greeting to the Red Army.

A Wehrmacht officer hands a leaflet with greetings to the Red Army commander in 1939. Smiling Stalin in the Kremlin.

Trotsky in a coffin.

The interior of Trotsky's office after the assassination attempt, a pool of blood by the table.

Trotsky's supporters in Mexico walk to his coffin to say goodbye.

An honor guard at Trotsky's coffin.

Participants in a protest rally against the murder of K. Liebknecht and R. Luxemburg and in support of the Red Terror.

Panorama of the rally (top).

Trotsky L.D. and the accompanying sailors from his personal guard walk along the platform along the guard of honor, during Trotsky's trip to the fronts in 1918. The guard of honor on the platform takes their weapons to the leg, Trotsky passes by.

Panorama of the guard of honor lined up in front of the station building, Trotsky delivering a speech.

Trotsky and his entourage walk along the train cars.