With Lenin, under the banner of Lenin. (Biography of V.I. Lenin 1917-1924) (1984)

Views of Leningrad at sunrise.

View of part of the Palace Bridge.

Cruiser "Aurora" on the Neva.

Red flag over the Smolny building, views of the central part of the building and the monument to Lenin in front of the entrance to Smolny.

Tulips in the flowerbed in front of the monument to Lenin, views of the monument.

Stairs and corridors of Smolny.

Assembly hall of Smolny.

Chandeliers between the columns of the hall (panorama).

Text of the appeal of the Military Revolutionary Committee (VRC) "To the citizens of Russia".

Newsreel: a detachment of Red Guards and revolutionary sailors marches along the streets of Gatchina in October 1917. Units of revolutionary soldiers climb the steps of the porch of Smolny.

Machine-gun naval installations at the entrance to Smolny, soldiers at the machine guns.

Painting "V.I. Lenin proclaims Soviet power", Lenin in the painting.

Text of the address "To the citizens of Russia", published in the newspaper "Worker and Soldier".

Interior of Lenin's office in Smolny.

Portrait of Lenin.

Newsreel: military operations on the fronts of World War I 1914-1916, heavy artillery firing.

Machine gunners and infantry conduct military operations.

Allied tanks attack on the Western Front.

An airplane flies.

Houses and industrial enterprises collapse.

Corpses of civilians.

Portrait of Lenin.

Text of the Decree on Peace, published in the newspaper "Izvestia", a photograph of decrees pasted up on the wall of a building.

Photographs and paintings depicting soldiers reading the Decree on Peace.

Newsreel: peasants ploughing the land with a plow.

A landowner and his wife descend the steps.

Peasants sow a field by hand.

Text of the Decree on Land, alternating with newsreel: faces of peasants reading newspapers.

Photograph of the first composition of the Council of People's Commissars of the RSFSR headed by Lenin.

View of a railway junction.

Newsreel: Moscow streets in the mid-1920s.

Public transport movement.

View of the monument to Minin and Pozharsky (above), a tram stops at the monument.

Panorama of part of the Moscow Kremlin.

Modern view of the Moscow Kremlin.

The national flag of the USSR over the Kremlin.

Memorable places in the Kremlin where Lenin lived and worked.

Shelves with books in Lenin's memorial office in the Kremlin, the interior of the office, a desk.

A telephone on the desk.

A map of Soviet Russia on the wall of Lenin's office.

Photographs reflecting the foreign military intervention in Soviet Russia and the beginning of the civil war in 1918. Map of the territories of Soviet Russia occupied by the White Guards and interventionists in 1918 (animation).

A photograph of Lenin at the table in the Kremlin office.

The text of a newspaper publication of one of Lenin's articles.

Newsreel: an inspection of one of the Red Army units in 1918-1919. A brass band plays.

A military parade on Red Square in the early 1920s.

Lenin, standing on a truck, reviews the parade of the Vsevobuch troops on Red Square on May 25, 1919. Lenin's face.

One of the troop trains being sent to the front.

View of a railway track.

Red Army soldiers on the roof of a carriage.

Red Army soldiers and naval sailors in a carriage of a train heading to the front.

Combat operations of various branches of the armed forces on the fronts of the Civil War.

Landing of troops in the Perm province in 1918. Attack of the Red cavalry.

Cavalry fording a river (top).

Parade of Soviet troops in Vladivostok in 1922. Fragment of a map of the RSFSR. The interior of Lenin's memorial office in the Kremlin.

Photograph of Lenin during a meeting of the Council of People's Commissars on October 3, 1922. Fragment of one of Lenin's manuscripts.

Photograph of Lenin in his office in the Kremlin in 1922. Text on a museum stand describing Lenin's working day on February 2, 1921. Documents with Lenin's notes and signatures.

Photograph of Lenin.

Title page of Lenin's work "The Immediate Tasks of the Soviet Government".

Newsreel: Lenin, sitting on the platform of a truck, shakes hands with one of the participants in the Vsevobuch parade on Red Square on May 25, 1919. Party vouchers in Lenin's name for meetings with workers, peasants, and Red Army soldiers.

Painting depicting Lenin's speech at a rally at the Mikhelson plant, fragments of the painting.

Photograph of the investigative experiment at the site of the assassination attempt on Lenin on the territory of the Mikhelson plant on August 30, 1918. Text of the government report on the assassination attempt on Lenin.

Interiors of Lenin's Kremlin apartment, Lenin's bed (panorama).

Photograph of Lenin chairing a meeting of the Council of People's Commissars to discuss his recovery from injury on October 17, 1918. Newsreel: Lenin talking with V.D. Bonch-Bruyevich during a walk around the Kremlin grounds after his recovery on October 16, 1918. Lenin's face.

Views of Moscow in the winter of 1919. Lenin talking, standing at the window of his apartment during a conversation with the American journalist L. Eyre in February 1920. Clearing snow from a Moscow street.

Panorama of a clean-up day to dismantle a wooden building for firewood.

Loading firewood during a clean-up day.

Lenin at the window of his apartment.

Views of modern-day Moscow.

Panorama of the park near the Bolshoi Theater.

People walking through the park.

Monument to Lenin in the Kremlin.

Newsreel: views of American skyscrapers (top), pages of Lenin's manuscript "Letter to American Workers".

A passenger liner enters the port of New York.

An airship flies past one of the skyscrapers.

Photograph of Rosa Luxemburg speaking at a rally in Berlin. K. Liebknecht speaking at a rally in 1918. Types of rallies in Germany in the 1918-1920s, speeches by speakers.

Mounted gendarmes disperse a demonstration in Madrid in early 1931. Photograph of Lenin in his office in the Kremlin.

Covers of editions of Lenin's works published during his lifetime.

Newsreel from 1920: a column of delegates to the Second Congress of the Comintern passes under the arch on the territory of Smolny during the events of the congress on July 19, 1920 in Petrograd.

The congress delegates applaud standing during the session in the Tauride Palace.

Lenin speaks from the rostrum in the Tauride Palace to the delegates of the Second Congress of the Comintern.

Panorama of part of the session hall.

Lenin, sitting on the steps of the rostrum, preparing to speak at a meeting of the Third Congress of the Comintern in the summer of 1921. Workers at a railway depot during one of the first subbotniks.

Repairing a locomotive.

A lifetime edition of Lenin's pamphlet "The Great Beginning." Foreign correspondents board a carriage.

A passenger train departs.

A view of a section of the Moskva River in the city center (above).

The Triumphal Arch at the Tverskaya Zastava.

A bus pulls up to the Grand Kremlin Palace.

Lenin during a conversation with the American journalist L. Eyre in February 1920. The headline of an interview with Lenin published in an American newspaper.

A photograph of Lenin reading the newspaper "Pravda" at his desk in his office.

Newsreel from 1920: peat extraction in the Moscow region using the method of engineer Klasson.

A painting depicting Lenin testing an electric plough, newsreel of an electric plough testing in Butyrsky khutor.

A photograph of Lenin reading a newspaper.

Lines of Lenin's handwriting appear on a sheet of paper (animation).

A photograph of members of the commission for the implementation of the GOELRO plan.

The title page of the "Plan for the Electrification of Russia".

A map of the electrification of Russia.

A photograph of Lenin talking with the English writer H. G. Wells.

Newsreel of the post-war devastation in Russia, a steam locomotive and the ruins of enterprises under the snow.

Refugees and starving peasants on the riverbank and by the rails.

A peasant feeds a starving horse.

The title page of H. G. Wells's book "Russia in the Dark".

A photograph of Lenin talking with Wells.

Newsreel: masons building a residential building in the late 1940s.

A mason laying bricks.

Workers at their machines, production process in a factory workshop.

New tractors leaving the factory workshop gates in the 1930s.

Panorama of the construction of the Volkhov Hydroelectric Power Station.

Panorama of the construction of the Sayano-Shushenskaya Hydroelectric Power Station (top).

Harvesting with combines.

Construction of new residential buildings.

Newsreel: view of the square in front of the Column Hall of the House of Unions.

Lenin and N.K. Krupskaya leaving the Column Hall of the House of Unions after the end of the 1st All-Russian Congress on Extracurricular Education on May 6, 1919. A.V. Lunacharsky among the participants of the congress.

Lenin waiting for a car at the Column Hall of the House of Unions.

A worker’s faculty student in bast shoes during a class.

Classes at the literacy courses.

Workers during advanced training classes.

Schoolchildren in the yard during a break.

Views of the Moscow University building on Lenin Hills, students during laboratory classes and lectures.

A photograph of Lenin against the background of a bookcase in the Kremlin office.

Newsreel: Russian scientists: A.M. Bach, V.M. Bekhterev, I.P. Pavlov, K.E. Tsiolkovsky at work in laboratories and lecturing in classrooms.

Tsiolkovsky demonstrates a model of an airship.

A photograph of Lenin and A.M. Gorky among the delegates of the Second Congress of the Comintern in Petrograd.

The building of the Palace of Culture of the Kirov Plant in Leningrad.

Views of historical monuments of Leningrad.

Artists sketching in front of St.

Isaac's Cathedral.

Faces of young artists.

A photograph of Lenin in the Kremlin office.

The interiors of Lenin's office, his desk.

A view of part of one of the Kremlin buildings.

An alley in the park in Gorki.

The house in Gorki where Lenin lived from the spring of 1923. Lenin’s study in Gorki.

Books, newspapers, and a writing set on the table.

Photograph of Lenin in Gorki in 1922. Newsreel: panorama of the First Agricultural Exhibition, opened in the summer of 1923, from the Moskva River.

Photograph of Lenin and Krupskaya in the back seat of a car.

Pavilions and views of parts of the exhibition grounds.

Visitors on the exhibition grounds.

Photographs of Lenin and Krupskaya in Gorki in 1922, portraits of the delegates-workers of the Glukhovskaya Manufactory who visited Lenin in Gorki.

Cherry trees in blossom in Gorki.

Newsreel from 1924: newspaper reports of Lenin’s death.

Funeral procession with wreaths accompanying the coffin with Lenin’s body from Gorki to Gerasimovka station on January 23, 1924. Views of the funeral procession.

View of the railway line to Moscow.

The funeral train arrives at the Saratov (Paveletsky) railway station.

The flag is lowered over the building.

The military pays homage.

The funeral procession on January 27, 1924, moves along Red Square past the platform on which Lenin's coffin is installed.

Sentries at the entrance to the funeral platform and at Lenin's coffin.

View of Lenin's first temporary mausoleum on Red Square.

The red flag on the Moscow Kremlin, view of Red Square.

View of the mausoleum.

The clock on the Spasskaya Tower.

Views of Red Square during the May Day demonstration, portraits of Lenin above the columns of demonstrators (above).