Foreign military intervention and civil war in the USSR (1917-1919)

Officers and soldiers reading leaflets while sitting in a trench on the front line.

Arrival of the Soviet delegation in Brest-Litovsk for peace talks, Trotsky L.D. gets out of the carriage, German officers greet him.

The Austrian delegation goes to the talks.

Members of the German delegation walk.

The house in Brest-Litovsk where the talks took place.

Members of the delegations at the negotiating table.

The hands of a telegraph operator on the telegraph keyboard.

Military telegraph operators transmit telegrams.

A copy of the Brest Peace Treaty.

The Soviet and German delegations during the signing of the treaty.

German soldiers march along the streets of Kyiv in 1918. Representatives of the Central Rada greet German troops.

German soldiers march along the streets of Kyiv.

A German military orchestra plays.

German generals and officers walk along the platform of the station.

German soldiers load meat carcasses into trucks.

Carts with food products are going for loading.

Officers of the Central Rada troops.

President of Ukraine M.S. Hrushevsky.

Portrait of S. Petliura. V.K. Vynnychenko among the members of the Central Rada.

Officers of the Central Rada troops.

General P.P. Skoropadskyi together with German generals approaches the banquet table.

Entrance to the building of the German military commandant's office in Kyiv.

German soldiers check documents of people on the streets of Kyiv.

Ships of the Black Sea Fleet are heading to Novorossiysk.

A destroyer is underway.

Panorama of a part of the Novorossiysk port.

Memorial plaque with an inscription in memory of the sinking of the Black Sea Fleet ships in Tsemes Bay in 1918. View of a part of Tsemes Bay.

English warships on a campaign.

English soldiers land in Arkhangelsk.

Head of the Provisional Government of the Northern Region N.V. Tchaikovsky talks to his interlocutor. N.V. Tchaikovsky at his desk.

The deck of an American warship (top).

American soldiers on the deck of the ship wave to those seeing them off.

American ships on a campaign.

American ships after arriving in port.

American soldiers disembark from the ship in Vladivostok.

A Japanese warship.

Japanese officers on the deck of the ship.

Japanese ships in Vladivostok.

English soldiers in Arkhangelsk.

Japanese soldiers in Vladivostok.

The face of the French consul.

A representative of the Mensheviks speaks at a rally in support of the introduction of Entente troops.

Interventionist troops march along the street of one of the cities.

A banquet in honor of the French officers.

The banquet participants raise their glasses.

Cossacks in one of the villages of Kuban.

A unit of horse artillery of the Volunteer Army moves.

Soldiers of the Czechoslovak Corps at a halt.

A cavalry unit of the Czechoslovak Corps on the march.

President of Czechoslovakia Masaryk T. Masaryk talks with Prime Minister Beneš E. Masaryk's telegram on the subordination of units of the Czechoslovak Corps to the Entente command.

Soldiers of the Czechoslovak Corps ride on railway platforms.

Czech legionnaires on the march.

A Czechoslovak armored train passes through a station.

A destroyed trackman's booth.

Horsemen cross the railway tracks.

Captured Red Army soldiers under the guard of Czechoslovaks.

Soldiers walk in a chain through the forest.

View of the steppe.

Red partisans gallop on horseback.

Soldiers of the 1st Cavalry Army during a parade.

Budyonny S.M. and Voroshilov K.E. stand by a car during a parade in 1920. Portraits of Kotovsky G.I., Parkhomenko A.Ya., Shchors N.A., Bozhenko V.N. Units of the 25th division of Chapaev V.I. during formation in 1919. Chapaev talks with Trotsky L.D. Red Army soldiers listen to Trotsky's speech.

Chapaev stands near a train carriage.

A burning train.

Derailed passenger carriages.

Wounded being carried out of an undamaged carriage.

People inspect an artillery piece thrown off a platform.

People stand on the railway tracks.

Soldiers take up a position on a Moscow street during a battle with anarchists in the spring of 1918. A machine-gun crew fires at a building occupied by anarchists.

The wall of a house on Malaya Dmitrovka Street with traces of bullets and shrapnel.

The bodies of killed anarchists.

First aid being given to a wounded Red Army soldier.

Red Army soldiers carry out boxes of ammunition.

Captured anarchist sailors.

A bomb with a removed fuse in the hands of a Red Army soldier.

Captured anarchists.

The remains of houses in Yaroslavl, destroyed by artillery during the suppression of the mutiny in July 1918. The building of the Yaroslavl Theological Seminary, destroyed by artillery.

Destroyed houses on the square in front of the Yaroslavl theater.

Head of the "Union for the Defense of the Motherland and Freedom" Savinkov B.V. The building of the shopping arcade in Yaroslavl that burned down during the mutiny.

Uritsky M.S. descends the steps of Smolny.

Head of the Petrograd Cheka Uritsky.

Photograph of Lenin V.I., chairing a meeting of the Council of People's Commissars for the first time after being wounded in October 1918. A telegraph machine is working.

A tape with the text of a telegram.

Red cavalrymen ride past houses.

Red infantry is marching.

Commander of the 1st Army Tukhachevsky M.N. stands by a train carriage.

Portraits of Kuibyshev V.V. and Gai G.D. Red Army soldiers at the banner of the 24th Iron Rifle Division.

A leaflet announcing the capture of Samara by the Red Army.

Ships on the Volga.

A cargo of food at one of the piers.

Loaders carry sacks of grain onto a barge.

Camel-drawn grain carts await loading on the banks of the Volga.

Loading grain onto a train.

Partisans of the Southern Urals on the march.

Partisan commander V.K. Blucher with his fighters.

Portrait of Blucher with the Order of the Red Banner.

Portrait of I.E. Yakir.

Recruits at a marksmanship training session.

Red Army units march along city streets.

Red Army soldiers march through Theater Square in Moscow. M.I. Kalinin greets the passing Red Army soldiers.

Artillerymen climb onto a railway platform.

Red Army soldiers at the station await loading onto a train.

Faces of Red Army soldiers.

Red Army soldiers climb into a carriage.

An armored train soldier writes the words "To the front!" on the wall of a carriage.

The armored train crew runs along the carriages on alarm.

Loading ammunition into carriages and onto platforms.

Red Army soldiers are loading into a train car.

Commanders are passing by.

A unit of naval sailors is crossing the railroad tracks.

Red Army soldiers are climbing into a departing train.

The train is passing through a station.

Red Army soldiers are riding in train cars and on platforms.

A sailor is jumping onto the step of the last train car.

Lenin, speaking from the balcony of the Moscow City Council in January 1919 during a rally in protest against the murder of K. Liebknecht and R. Luxemburg.

Red Army soldiers are listening to Lenin’s speech.

Lenin continues his speech.

Artillery is moving along a Moscow street.

Admiral A. V. Kolchak is passing a line of Cossacks.

Kolchak at a gun on a ship of the Siberian military flotilla.

Kolchak is talking with officers.

General view of a railway station in Siberia.

English tanks on platforms.

General A. I. Denikin is walking past a line of soldiers.

The English general Gul is greeting Denikin.

The inscription "To Moscow" on the wall of a carriage of the White Guard armored train.

The White Guard armored train on the way.

Soldiers disembark from the carriages and enter the battle.

The cavalry goes on the attack.

The bridge is blown up.

The cavalry gallops into the attack.

General Yudenich N.N. at his desk.

Review of the cavalry unit of Yudenich's army.

Armored cars drive by.

Armored cars drive along the road.

A poster calling for the defense of Petrograd.

Wire fences on the square near St.

Isaac's Cathedral.

A tram carries platforms with guns.

Red artillerymen in position.

The Red cavalry attacks.

Machine gunners fire.

The cavalry attacks across the bridge.

Infantry on the field goes on the attack.

Map of Russia with the territories occupied by the White Army.

View of part of the Moscow Kremlin.

Part of the building of the Grand Kremlin Palace.

Delegates of the 8th Congress of the RCP(b) in the meeting hall.

Kalinin's face.

Dzerzhinsky's face. F.E. Lunacharsky. A.V. during the congress session.

Stuchka. P.I. Vladimirsky. M.F. Stasova. E.D. Artem (Sergeev). F.A.