Russia during the Revolution and Civil War (1917-1924)

German representatives greet the Soviet delegation at the Brest-Litovsk train station, which arrived for peace negotiations in December 1917. Delegation members include L. B. Kamenev, L. M. Karakhan, and Stuchka. K. B. Radek stands by the car, smoking a pipe.

RSFSR delegation members Karakhan and Bitsenko stand by the train car. L. D. Trotsky, having exited the train car, greets German soldiers.

Members of the RSFSR delegation walk to a meeting at the White Palace in the Brest Fortress.

Rally and demonstration in Berlin during the November Revolution of 1918. Ludendooff and Hindenburg over a map of military operations.

Kamenev during a meeting in the Kremlin. V. I. Lenin takes a walk in the Kremlin after recovering from his wounds on October 16, 1918. German troops march through the streets of Kyiv in March 1918. N.V. Tchaikovsky, a member of Denikin's government, at his desk.

View of the Kremlin cathedrals.

A guard checks passes at the entrance to the Kremlin in 1918-1919. Emperor Nicholas II and members of his family among the officers of His Majesty's Own Convoy.

Photograph of the Ipatiev House in Yekaterinburg.

Photograph of the basement where the royal family was executed.

Trotsky addresses rallies for Red Army soldiers during a tour of the Eastern Front in 1918. Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of the RSFSR I.I. Vatsetis among staff workers.

Vatsetis at the headquarters train.

General A.A. Brusilov over a map of military operations.

Trotsky and Commander-in-Chief of the Red Army S.S. Kamenev during May Day celebrations on Red Square in 1922-1923. Lenin V.I., Zinoviev during the funeral of revolutionaries on Red Square in 1919-1920. Dzerzhinsky F.E. in the honor guard at Lenin's coffin in the Column Hall of the House of Unions in January 1924. Parades and rallies of the Red Army.

Trotsky and Vatsetis at the staff car.

Trotsky reviews the parade of troops on the Eastern Front.

Kamenev L.B., Bukharin N.I., Sokolnikov G.Ya. at the presidium table.

Kamenev reading a newspaper.

Subbotnik.

Plowing the landowners' land.

Kalinin M.I. on Red Square on May 1. Lenin V.I. at the laying of the foundation of the monument to Karl Marx in Moscow on May 1, 1920. Stalin I.V. on Red Square.

Delegates of the 2nd Congress of the Comintern pass under the arch onto the territory of Smolny on July 19, 1920. G. E. Zinoviev speaks in the Tauride Palace on July 19, 1920, to delegates of the 2nd Congress of the Comintern.

Clara Zetkin speaks from the presidium of a meeting of the Comintern congresses, with Sen Katayama and Zinoviev sitting nearby.

Sen Katayama among delegates of the next congress of the Comintern in the Kremlin.

Kalinin speaks from the rostrum at a meeting of the 2nd Congress of the Comintern in the Tauride Palace on July 19, 1920. Speech by A. Balabanova at a meeting of the congress.

Speeches by Radek, Serrati, Paul Levi, and A. Rosmer from the rostrum in the Tauride Palace.

Delegates in the hall rise and applaud. V. I. Lenin speaks from the rostrum at a meeting of the 2nd Congress of the Comintern in the Tauride Palace on July 19, 1920, with Balabanova and Radek also present.

Delegates applauding (panorama).

Delegates of the Second Congress of the Comintern leave the Tauride Palace after the session, among them Paul Levi and Radek.

Delegates on the Field of Mars at the graves of the victims of the revolution.

Lenin and the American economist Christensen converse in the Kremlin courtyard on November 28, 1921. Workers at a rally.

Workers with rifles in formation.

Delegates of the Second Congress of the Comintern during the laying of a wreath at the mass grave of the victims of the revolution on the Field of Mars on July 19, 1920. Lenin V.I., Zorin S.S. among the congress delegates at the Tauride Palace.

Lenin's speech at the rally on Palace Square in Petrograd on July 19, 1920; views and panorama of the rally.

Lenin in his office in the Kremlin during a conversation with the American journalist L. Eyre in February 1920.