The Great Way (1927)

Views of the monument to Alexander III in Leningrad.

The text of the epigram "Scarecrow" on the pedestal of the monument.

Fragments of the monument.

Symbols of imperial power and the Russian Empire, stacked near the wall of the Grand Kremlin Palace.

Fragments of the destroyed monument to Alexander III. The red flag flutters over the Senate building in the Kremlin.

Buglers give a signal on Red Square.

Drummers beat a drum.

Demonstration on Red Square, banners with slogans.

Columns of the May Day demonstration on the streets of Moscow.

View of the demonstration (top).

Units of the Moscow garrison line up for the parade on Red Square (top).

Horse artillery at the parade on Red Square.

Units of the Red Navy pass by.

The naval ensign of the USSR flutters.

One of the warships of the Soviet Navy.

The commander watches the sea.

Panorama of the superstructures and artillery of the warship.

The mast of the ship, decorated with signal flags.

The barrels of a deck gun turret.

French President R. Poincaré takes part in a ceremonial event in Paris.

German President P. Hindenburg gets into a car. B. Mussolini takes part in an official ceremonial procession.

Procession of fascists in Rome.

French Prime Minister A. Briand and British Foreign Secretary D. Chamberlain during a meeting.

Pilsudski's face J. Demonstration in Germany with the participation of communists and members of the "Union of Red Front Soldiers", the demonstrators carry red banners, drummers beat a drum roll.

Views of the May Day demonstration in Mexico City (top).

Demonstrators on the streets of the city.

Demonstration and rally of workers' solidarity in China.

Faces of rally participants in different countries.

Participants in demonstrations in the USSR and other countries hold red banners.

Telmann E. speaks at a rally, faces of rally participants.

View of a rally in a square in one of the European cities (top).

Military parade on Red Square.

Lenin's face during a conversation with American journalist Eyre L. in February 1920. Participants of the rally wave their hands in greeting.

Text of the address "To the citizens of Russia" in October 1917. Checking passes at the entrance to Smolny, a machine gun on the porch.

The armored car "Lieutenant Schmidt" in the courtyard of Smolny.

Red Guards and revolutionary soldiers at the gates of Smolny.

Artillery guns and machine guns at the entrance to Smolny.

A detachment of Red Guards and sailors walks along a street in Petrograd.

Soldiers enter Smolny, a panorama of part of the Smolny territory.

Red Guard detachments leave the suburbs of Petrograd.

The cruiser "Aurora" on the Neva.

Panorama of part of Palace Square after the capture of the Winter Palace, destroyed barricades in front of the palace.

Text of the resolution of the 2nd Congress of Soviets on the creation of the Council of People's Commissars.

Lenin V.I. in the Kremlin during a conversation with the American journalist L. Eyre in February 1920. People's Commissar of Education of the RSFSR A. V. Lunacharsky.

The first revolutionary Supreme Commander-in-Chief N. V. Krylenko talks to a military man. V. A. Antonov-Ovseenko, E. A. Shchadenko among the military.

Ya. M. Sverdlov at the entrance to the Bolshoi Theater before the start of the session of the 5th Congress of Soviets in July 1918. Posting of election posters on the streets of Petrograd before the elections to the Constituent Assembly.

Pre-election campaigning and rallies on the streets of Petrograd.

Leaflets are thrown out of a moving tram.

Passers-by read election leaflets and posters pasted in the streets.

Pre-election rally of the Socialist Revolutionary Party, speakers throw out leaflets.

Anti-war demonstration in front of the Tauride Palace.

Text of the decree "On the dissolution of the Constituent Assembly".

An artillery piece near the Tauride Palace.

Supporters of the Constituent Assembly at the walls of the Tauride Palace.

A Red Guard patrol at the entrance to the palace.

Fraternization of Russian and German soldiers at the front.

The Austrian delegation goes to the White Palace for negotiations in Brest-Litovsk.

Pages of the Brest Peace Treaty.

Representatives of Ukraine meet Hindenburg at the Kyiv train station in March 1918. German and Ukrainian sentries at the entrance to the commandant's office.

The entry of German troops into Kyiv.

German troops on the streets of the city.

The parade of Hetman Skoropadsky's guard, German and Ukrainian officers greet the troops.

The Japanese fleet at the Vladivostok roadstead in April 1918. Japanese officers give orders for the unloading of troops at the pier.

Japanese generals descend the gangway of the ship.

Japanese officers among representatives of the bourgeois classes of Vladivostok.

A ceremonial welcome of the White troops and interventionists in Vladivostok, a religious procession.

A ceremonial service in honor of the arrival of foreign troops.

Buglers give the signal for the beginning of the parade.

A military orchestra passes by.

A Cossack unit on foot at the parade.

A unit of pupils of the cadet corps passes by with an orchestra.

Students of the gymnasium and pupils of the women's institute pass by.

Participants in the parade hold portraits of Nicholas II, Alexandra Feodorovna and Tsarevich Alexei.

General Dieterichs M.K. makes a speech.

Procession with portraits of members of the royal family.

View of the ceremonial procession in Vladivostok (above).

Leaders of the Menshevik government of Georgia and French military personnel during a ceremonial event.

Parade of Georgian troops in Tiflis.

Leader of the Georgian Mensheviks Noe Zhordania among French military personnel and members of the Georgian government.

Members of the Georgian government and French military personnel during a friendly breakfast in honor of the French guests.

General Yudenich N.N. at his desk.

General Kaledin, Rodzianko M.V. and Ataman of the Terek Army Karaulov M.A. near the building of the Bolshoi Theater in Moscow during the work of the State Moscow Conference.

General Kornilov L.G. among officers before the start of the session of the State Conference in Moscow.

Admiral Kolchak A.V. on the deck of a warship.

Armored train "General Kornilov" on the railway tracks.

White Guard armored train goes to the front, view of one of the armored platforms.

Views of Berlin streets during the November 1918 revolution.

Detachments of armed workers and soldiers on the streets of the city, rallies.

Trucks with soldiers drive by.

View of a rally (above).

Demonstration in Berlin.

German Red Guards at their post.

Buildings damaged during armed clashes.

People going to a demonstration.

Statue of a lion.

Removal of the imperial standard.

Text of the now invalid Treaty of Brest-Litovsk.

View of the Champs-Elysees and the Arc de Triomphe in Paris.

Views of the palace and park in Versailles.

Cars with delegations approaching the palace.

Marshal Foch, Poincaré, Clemenceau and Generalissimo Joffre arrive at the conference.

Representatives of the press and guests greet the participants of the peace conference.

Arrival of the delegates.

Panorama of the meeting hall of the Versailles Conference, members of the delegations discussing the terms of peace.

Pages of the Treaty of Versailles with signatures and seals.

Festive events in Paris and Versailles on the occasion of the conclusion of the peace treaty, performances by dancers and clowns.

A ceremonial procession and celebration in Paris, participants in the celebration dancing in the streets.

View of the arch at the entrance to the Smolny territory, erected on July 19, 1920 in honor of the opening of the 2nd Congress of the Comintern, a demonstration with the participation of congress delegates and a military orchestra is taking place under the arch.

Congress delegates and representatives of communist organizations of Petrograd with banners walk along the streets of the city.

Congress delegates enter the meeting at the Bolshoi Theater on August 7, 1920, among them - Kalinin M.I., Serrati D., Zinoviev G.E. Arrival in Baku of the ship with the bodies of 26 Baku commissars in the summer of 1920. Funeral of 26 Baku commissars on the central square of Baku.

Relatives hold portraits of the executed commissars, crying over the coffins.

Coffins with the bodies of the commissars are lowered into the graves.

View of a banner with a slogan.

Views of Moscow buildings damaged during the October battles of 1917. Bagmen and speculators on the station square.

People stand in line.

Women sit on the sidewalk near the wall of a house.

A train passes, bagmen sit on the roofs of the carriages.

A line at a store.

A horse exhausted from hunger on a city street.

Street children pound rusks.

Representatives of the bourgeoisie sell things on the street.

Panorama of a part of Kuznetsky Most in the early 1920s, store signs.

Text of the message about the postponement of the increase in the bread ration.

Pieces of bread issued according to ration norms in Moscow in 1918-1920. People stand in line for food and kerosene.

Faces of street children.

Banknotes that were in circulation in 1918-1920. Panorama of a destroyed industrial enterprise, smoking ruins.

Views of a destroyed railway bridge.

Broken railway carriages.

Corpses of victims of the White Guard terror.

An elderly woman sits on the ruins of a house.

Panorama of a destroyed oil pipeline.

View of a burning oil storage facility.

Lenin V.I. speaks on Red Square on the day of Sverdlov Ya.M.'s funeral.

March 18, 1919, Lenin's autograph.

A newly formed unit of the Red Army marches along a city street.

Red Army soldiers stand in formation near railway carriages before boarding a train, panorama of the formation.

A unit of the Red Cavalry.

An armored train of the Red Army with two armored platforms passes by.

The attack of the Red cavalry.

The entry of the Red Army into one of the settlements.

A rally in a village liberated from the Whites.

People run after the train, picking up leaflets and newspapers, which are thrown out of the cars.

A view of the composition of the propaganda train.

The text of the appeal to the peasants.

People near a carriage of the propaganda train.

The employees of the propaganda train perform a play on the stage-car.

An employee of the propaganda train speaks to the people gathered near the cars.

Distribution of propaganda literature.

Artillerymen load property onto a platform with a gun.

A view of a carriage of the armored train "All power to the Soviets!" Artillery guns on the platform.

Frunze M.V. walks along the echelon.

Formation of the regiments of Chapaev's division.

Chapaev V.I. stands near the staff car.

Arrival of Trotsky L.D. at the front.

Trotsky inspects the formation of the 25th Division, Chapayev is next to him.

Trotsky talks to an elderly Red Army soldier.

A young Red Army soldier at a machine gun.

Frunze inspects the guard of honor at the train station.

The Red Army parade in Kyiv on February 2, 1919. Bubnov A.S., Skripnik N.A., Rakovsky H.G., Antonov-Ovseenko V.A., Shchadenko E.A. in Kyiv after the city was captured by the Red Army.

Rifle and cavalry units of the Red Army on the streets of Kyiv.

The Red Army enters Odessa on April 5, 1919. The parade of the troops of the People's Revolutionary Army of the Far Eastern Republic in Vladivostok on October 25, 1922. Army Commander I.P. Uborevich before the start of the parade.

Uborevich is presented with bread and salt.

Uborevich delivers a speech to representatives of Vladivostok.

Budyonny S.M. and Voroshilov K.E. after the occupation of Rostov by units of the 1st Cavalry Army, panorama of the Red Army rally.

Red Army soldiers in formation.

Factory chimneys are smoking.

Views and panoramas of industrial enterprises.

Workers are chipping the ground with picks.

The face of a steelworker.

Production processes in foundries and machine shops.

The face of a metallurgist.

The wings of windmills are rotating.

Women are working at a grain threshing floor.

Lenin V.I. during a conversation with the American journalist L. Eyre in February 1920. Lenin is waiting for a car at the House of Unions after a meeting of the 1st Congress on Extracurricular Education on May 6, 1919. Lenin in a car before leaving Red Square on May 1, 1919. Lenin is sitting in a chair with a cat in his arms during a conversation with L. Eyre.

Depot workers are repairing a steam locomotive.

View of the repaired steam locomotive.

Workers are riding on a steam locomotive, standing by the boiler.

Arrival of a passenger train at the station.

Panorama of shop windows on one of the Moscow streets.

A customer tries on a leather jacket in a clothing store.

Bank employees in a money vault.

People in line at the savings bank windows.

Bank employees counting coins.

People at the cash register.

Coins being poured into a box.

Winter landscape.

A red flag flutters in the wind.

Announcement of the death of V. I. Lenin in the Gudok newspaper.

Lenin's body being carried out of his house in Gorki, the coffin is carried by Stalin I. V., Rykov A. I., Zinoviev G. E., Molotov V. M., Lashevich M. M. Residents of Gorki with a portrait of Lenin.

Carrying the coffin with Lenin's body from Gorki to Gerasimovka station, Belenkiy A. Ya. walks in front of the procession, the coffin is carried by Lashevich, Unshlikht I. S., Ordzhonikidze G. K. A red flag flutters.

Views of the Spasskaya Tower on Red Square.

Views of the queue at the Hall of Columns of the House of Unions to pay their last respects to Lenin's body.

People warm themselves by the fires in the streets.

Chandeliers in the Hall of Columns.

Cadets of the naval command courses enter the hall.

Lenin in his coffin, with Bukharin N.I. People enter the Hall of Columns.

Rykov A.I., Stalin I.V., Kalinin M.I., Voroshilov K.E. in the guard of honor at Lenin's coffin.

Ulyanova M.I., Krupskaya N.K., Rudzutak Ya.E., Kalinin M.I., Tomsky M.P. at Lenin's coffin.

Dzerzhinsky F.E., Krasin L.B., Frunze M.V. in the guard of honor at Lenin's coffin.

People enter the Hall of Columns to pay their last respects to Lenin's body.

People warm themselves by the fires in the streets.

Construction of Lenin's Mausoleum, frozen ground being blown up with dynamite.

Digging a pit for the mausoleum.

A Red Army patrol on a Moscow street.

Children's faces entering the Hall of Columns.

Lenin in his coffin, people walking past the coffin.

Delegates of the Extraordinary Congress of Soviets in the guard of honor at Lenin's coffin.

Representatives of the ZSFSR and the peoples of the North at Lenin's coffin.

Pioneers stand in the guard of honor.

People walk past the coffin.

Providing first aid to people who have fainted.

Night work on the construction of the mausoleum, V.D. Bonch-Bruyevich talking to the commander of the military engineering unit.

Views and panorama of the funeral rally on Red Square on January 27, 1924. A sentry at the platform with Lenin's coffin installed on it, funeral wreaths at the wall of the temporary mausoleum.

People gather for a funeral meeting.

The funeral procession passes by the platform with Lenin's coffin.

View of the platform with the coffin.

Participants in the meeting during a minute of silence.

View of the clock on the Spasskaya Tower.

The coffin with Lenin's body is carried into the temporary mausoleum.

Artillery and rifle salute at the moment of burial of Lenin's body in the mausoleum.

The destroyer of the Baltic Fleet "Trotsky" gives a salute.

The horns of factories and plants give a mourning signal.

The clock on the Spasskaya Tower shows 16:00. The red flag flutters.

Views of industrial enterprises, smoke from factory chimneys.

Interior views of workshops, production processes.

Views of New York City streets and buildings.

Rockefeller D.D. among the participants of a business meeting, Ford G. at the head of a ceremonial procession.

Gargoyle statues on the building of Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris.

View of the New York Stock Exchange building.

People on the stairs at the entrance to the stock exchange building, automobile traffic on the street (above).

Trading on the stock exchange, Rockefeller's face.

Automobile traffic on the streets of New York (above).

Views of streets in working-class neighborhoods and slums of New York.

Views of a rural settlement in one of the colonies.

Harvesting sugar cane on plantations, an overseer urges workers on.

Black women workers with children on their shoulders tamp the earth.

Striking workers leave a factory.

A speaker addresses a rally.

Trains stopped as a result of the strike, an abandoned cart with luggage.

Empty railroad tracks.

A military unit of French soldiers on the platform.

An armored car on a city street during a strike.

Faces of American soldiers.

Soldiers search passers-by.

Arrest of trade union activists, men and women are dragged out of a house down the stairs.

Mounted police disperse a demonstration.

A prisoner's horse-drawn carriage arrives at the prison gates.

An interior view of an American prison.

View from a cell.

View of the prison yard (top), prisoners on a walk.

Panorama of a rally in the USA, a speaker speaking.

Sacco and Vanzetti lead to a court hearing.

Night electric lighting and advertising on city streets in the USA. Night carousels and rides in a city park.

British warships on a campaign, views of ships (top).

Panorama of the deck of a battleship (top).

Viewing holes of armored conning towers, the turret of an armored train turns, artillery in position.

A rifle unit of the Red Army on the march during exercises.

Heavy tanks during exercises.

View of the building of the Lenin Institute in Moscow.

Views of Moscow streets (above), traffic on the streets, people crossing the street.

A meeting of the German workers' delegation in Moscow.

View of part of the station square (above).

The delegates walk along the carriage.

The German delegates respond to the greetings of those meeting them as they exit the station building.

People standing in front of the station are holding banners with slogans.

Views of Moscow streets at night during the elections to the Moscow City Council.

A meeting of the Moscow City Council.

The speaker is speaking.

The deputies vote by raising their mandates.

Meetings to nominate candidates in a village and a military unit, the participants in the meeting vote.

Views of the construction of one of the oil fields during its visit by a foreign delegation.

A working excavator.

The delegates shake hands with the builders.

The work of the printing house, the publication of newspapers.

A lesson at a school on the elimination of illiteracy in one of the union republics of the USSR. A teacher at the blackboard.

Representatives of the small peoples of the North learn to read.

The presidium of the women's meeting in one of the republics of Central Asia.

Types of construction of factories and plants.

Types of streets and residential buildings of the new settlement of workers of the Putilov plant.

A sign for a factory kitchen and a workers' canteen on the facade of a building.

A cook opens a boiler lid.

An interior view of the cooking shop of a factory kitchen.

Peeling potatoes using an electric machine.

An electromechanical bread slicer in action.

Washing dishes in a dishwasher.

Placing cooked food into thermoses for distribution.

Delivering thermoses with food to one of the factory canteens.

An interior view of a part of the hall of the workers' canteen.

New tractors produced by the Krasny Putilovets plant.

The plant's brand name on the radiator of the tractor.

Harvesting using tractor mowers.

Peasants greeting the new tractors and agricultural machinery.

Peasants' faces.

Plowing the land with tractor plows.

Cows on a livestock farm.

Collective farmers lead cows to an agricultural exhibition and fair.

Kalinin M.I. examines cows at the exhibition.

Kalinin, sitting at a tea table in the yard of the house, talks with peasants.

View of a village street illuminated by electric lanterns.

Glowing windows of a hut, people walking past the hut.

Sign above the entrance to the territory of the Leningrad plant "Elektrosila".

Finished products of the plant.

The process of assembling industrial electric motors in the plant shops.

View of the Volkhov hydroelectric power station.

One of the machines of the Volkhov hydroelectric power station.

Streams of water going through the dam.

Assembly of steam locomotives in the shop of the Krasny Putilovets plant.

Steam locomotives and industrial equipment produced at Soviet enterprises.

A new locomotive leaves the plant shop.

Leaders of youth organizations greet members of the Communist Youth International from the rostrum.

Pioneers during a mass gymnastics lesson on the stadium field.

Columns of athletes walk along the streets of Leningrad during a sports festival.

An elderly woman greets the participants of the festival.

Pioneers and Komsomol members at a demonstration.

Children's faces.

View of a pioneer rally.

Pioneers on Red Square in 1924 pronounce the words of the oath to Lenin and give a pioneer salute.

A column of pioneers walks along a Moscow street.