Civil War and Famine in Russia (1919-1924)

A tram with artillery pieces on its platforms passes along a Petrograd street in October 1919, during Yudenich's offensive.

City residents sort firewood.

A cleanup day for unloading firewood.

A Red Army unit stands in formation before heading to the front.

A political worker addresses Red Army soldiers during a rally at a railway station.

Faces of Red Army soldiers.

Artillery pieces at a firing position near Petrograd during a blizzard.

A sentry on duty, covered in snow.

Review of a cavalry unit of Yudenich's Northwestern Army.

Cavalry formation review.

White cavalry advances to the attack.

A machine-gun crew fires.

Infantry wages a defensive battle.

Infantry rises to the attack from trenches and dugouts.

View of the battlefield with infantry advancing to the attack (from above).

A machine-gun crew changes position.

Loading a machine gun onto a horse's back.

Tree trunks.

Dzerzhinsky on Red Square in the summer of 1924 (close-up).

A Cheka escort unit lines up on the street before the arrival of the defendants for the 1922 Socialist Revolutionary Trial.

The defendants who arrived for the trial exit the car.

The defendants are led under escort to the courtroom.

The accused in the dock.

A photograph of Dzerzhinsky among the Cheka officers.

Street food queues during the Civil War.

Street vending.

People leading horses by the bridle down the slope of a snow-covered hill.

The faces of street children, victims of the famine in the Volga region in 1921-1922. A boy picks off and eats wood chips.

Child victims of the famine.

Children in a hospital ward eat from the same pot.

A medical examination of starving children, a doctor palpates a child's body.

Children eat scraps from the ground near a railway carriage.

A woman with a child in her arms.

Children eat from bowls at a station.

A refugee family around a trough of soup.

Refugees at a field kitchen.

Filling pots with soup.

Refugees who have received food.

Faces of starving refugees.

Starving, emaciated, ragged children.

Children who have died of hunger.

Emaciated children lying on the ground, people passing by.

Removing the bodies of people who died of starvation.

A miner hauling a mine in a drift.

People on Red Square near the shopping arcade in the 1910s.

View of Palace Square in St.

Petersburg.

Panorama of the Winter Palace in winter.