The film tells about the plenum of the Sverdlovsk regional committee of the CPSU for the election of delegates to the 19th All-Union Party Conference and about the turbulent social life of the city.
Flow of water on the dam on the Iset River.
Panorama of a part of the Iset River embankment, view of a rally near a flowerbed.
Rally participants argue with each other about the upcoming elections of delegates to the 19th All-Union Party Conference.
A man with a poster stands near the embankment fence.
Rally participants hold homemade posters with anti-Stalin slogans.
Arguments between rally participants.
Faces of rally participants (panorama), a poster with a slogan in support of political pluralism.
Panorama of the rally.
Rally participant Ratushny speaks at the rally, talks about the arrest of his grandfather and mother in 1937 and 1946, the concealment of the truth by Soviet newspapers (synchronously and off-screen), panorama of rally participants holding posters demanding that those responsible for political repression be brought to justice.
Faces of rally participants (panorama).
Ratushny performs a song and verses (synchronously), rally participants stand nearby with posters.
Panorama of the rally on Oktyabrskaya Square in Sverdlovsk, a representative of the Sverdlovsk Regional Committee of the CPSU answers a question about the voting procedure for nominating delegates to the 19th Conference of the CPSU, rally participants ask questions about the progress of the plenum of the regional committee of the CPSU, about the possibility of meetings with candidates for delegates to the party conference (synchronously and behind the scenes).
Representatives of party bodies and rally participants argue about violations in primary party organizations (synchronously).
Procession of rally participants with banners calling for old party apparatchiks not to nominate old party apparatchiks as candidates for delegates.
View of the presidium and the meeting hall of the plenum of the Sverdlovsk Regional Committee of the CPSU (panorama).
First Secretary of the Sverdlovsk Regional Committee of the CPSU Petrov Yu.V. speaks from the rostrum about the election of delegates from primary party organizations to the 19th conference of the CPSU, about new methods of nominating candidates and non-interference of the regional committee of the CPSU in this process (synchronously).
The face of one of the participants in the pre-election discussion.
One of the participants in the discussion speaks, holding a microphone, reads an excerpt from an article published in the magazine "Posev", they try to boo him, faces of the meeting participants.
One of the participants in the discussion, who was subjected to repression for political reasons, speaks about the creation of the "Democratic Union" party in the country, about the composition and goals of the new party, answers questions (synchronously), faces of the participants in the discussion.
One of the participants in the discussion asks a member of the "Democratic Union" a question about labor relations in the private entrepreneurial sector (synchronously).
Faces of the participants in the discussion.
Petrov Yuri Vladimirovich - statesman and political figure
1988
Sverdlovsk
Spring
Participants in the pre-election debate in the hall.
A retired woman makes a demand for food supplies, about the violation of citizens' labor rights, in particular, the activist Ratushny (synchronously), faces of the participants and moderators of the debate.
A speech by one of the participants in the debate, talks about the "City Discussion Tribune" as a form of class struggle (synchronously).
Faces of the participants in the debate.
A speech by another participant in the debate about the concept of unity of the party and the people (synchronously).
Views of the building of the Sverdlovsk Regional Committee of the CPSU. First Secretary of the Sverdlovsk Regional Committee of the CPSU Petrov Yu.V. from the rostrum of the plenum of the regional committee of the CPSU announces the names of candidates for delegates to the 19th conference of the CPSU (synchronously and off-screen), faces of the candidates, views of the plenum meeting hall.
The face of a sleeping participant in the plenum.
People in the city's Historical Square, young people gather in groups.
Faces of young people.
Participants of the rally argue with the representative of the Democratic Union party, criticize him for his general words.
One of the participants of the rally speaks about the need for legislative approval of the concept of "glasnost", about the impossibility of democratization of the constitution by communists (synchronously and off-camera), faces of the participants of the rally.
Faces of the participants of the plenum of the Sverdlovsk regional committee of the CPSU during the speech of one of the participants.
A representative of one of the work collectives speaks from the rostrum with a proposal to increase the number of ballots for secret voting and to include in them the names of workers and peasants who are in reserve (synchronously).
Participants of the vote receive ballots, a participant of the plenum speaks about the lack of response to her proposal to include more candidates in the lists, speaks about the capabilities of candidates from party bodies, about the need to send delegates from industrial and agricultural enterprises to the party conference (synchronously and off-camera).
Participants of the plenum put ballots in the ballot boxes.
Faces of participants of one of the rallies.
Water flow on the dam on the Iset River.
Petrov Yuri Vladimirovich - statesman and political figure
1988
Sverdlovsk
Spring