And the CPSU audience. The historical place of capitalism (1973)

Newsreel of 1914-1915: residents of Berlin, Paris welcome troops leaving for the front.

Regiments of the Russian Imperial Army pass through the streets of St.

Petersburg.

Armored cars tow artillery pieces.

Portrait of N.K. Krupskaya.

Mountain landscape in Zakopane.

Photo of V.I. Lenin in Zakopane during a walk in the mountains in 1914.

Portrait of the German Emperor Wilhelm II.

Photo of British Prime Minister Asquith.

Photo of the Russian Emperor Nicholas II.

Newsreel of 1914-1916: deputies of the French Parliament descend from the steps.

German infantry attack.

An airplane flies by.

Panorama of the battlefield, shell bursts.

View of the railway track.

Smoke from the chimney of the locomotive, the roofs of the cars.

Wheels of a stopped locomotive.

Photos of the streets of Bern at the beginning of the 20th century.

The house in Bern, where Lenin lived, alternates with shots of the railway.

Photos of Zurich at the beginning of the 20th century.

Headlines of articles in Russian and European newspapers.

Portrait of Lenin, made in 1914 in Poronino.

Library cabinets with books, books and manuscript sheets on the table.

Pages of editions of the works of Marx and Engels in German.

Portrait of Lenin.

Fragments of Lenin's manuscript "Imperialism as the highest stage of Capitalism".

Newsreel of 1914: views of New York and London neighborhoods.

Horse-drawn transport on one of the Paris squares.

Trading on the stock exchange, alternating with photos.

Cars at the entrance to the New York Stock Exchange building.

Homeless people are sitting on benches.

View of the Statue of Liberty.

View of a part of one of the New York City neighborhoods (from above).

Library cabinet with books.

Portrait of Lenin.

Fragments of Lenin's manuscript indicating the five signs of imperialism (combined survey).

A drawing depicting the workshop of an industrial enterprise.

Production processes in the workshops of industrial enterprises (alternates with newsreels).

Assembling cars on the assembly line of an automobile plant in Detroit.

Panorama of one of the industrial enterprises (from above).

View of New York skyscrapers.

The doorman at the entrance to the building.

A meeting of one of the international cartels, the faces of financial magnates.

Production processes at mines and steel mills in the USA.

Paper mill workers roll rolls of finished products to the warehouse.

Workers of one of the enterprises mark passes before the start of the working day.

A freight train is passing by.

View of the railway bridge.

Passenger ships at the berths of New York.

Photo of transoceanic liners at the pier in New York.

Portrait of Lenin.

Photos of Zurich at the beginning of the 20th century.

View of the cobblestone pavement.

Photos of the library building and reading room in Zurich.

Portrait of Lenin.

A fragment of Lenin's manuscript on the second sign of imperialism.

Signage with the names of major Western banks, customer service of banks (newsreel).

Meeting of the bank's management board.

Photos of billionaires Rockefeller and Morgan.

Photo of the office hall of one of the banks.

Production processes in the workshops of industrial enterprises, counting money, coins and bills of various denominations (newsreel).

Photo of bank vault employees.

Representatives of the bank's management board leave the building.

Raising the American flag.

Meeting of the supervisory board of one of the banks.

Panorama of the meeting room.

Mountain landscape of Switzerland.

View of a part of the lake.

Lenin's manuscript with the indication of the third sign of imperialism (animation).

View of the port of New York.

Photo of one of the streets of New York.

Newsreel 1930-1932: the streets and slums of New York during the Great Depression.

View of one of the slums.

The daily life of slum dwellers.

Homeless people go to bed with newspapers under them.

View of part of Manhattan Island with the Statue of Liberty.

Ships at sea.

A type of dam in Africa.

Photographs of the exploitation of the black population.

Panorama of a settlement in one of the African countries.

Black movers and porters at work (newsreel).

Negroes loosen the ground with hoes.

Manuscripts and books on the library table.

Portrait of Lenin.

A fragment of Lenin's manuscript indicating the fourth sign of imperialism (animation).

Newsreel of 1914-1916: the production process in the workshop of one of the textile enterprises (panorama).

Manufacture of artillery barrels.

The gunners roll out the gun to the position.

The ship's artillery is firing.

Warships during the battle during the First World War.

Launch of torpedoes from the onboard torpedo tube.

The airship flies over the masts of the ship.

Sea battle.

A falling balloon burns up in the air.

Newspaper headlines about revolutionary events in Russia.

Workers leave the factory.

Panorama of a part of the rally (from above).

Portrait of Lenin.

A fragment of Lenin's manuscript on the fifth sign of imperialism.

African colonies of European countries on the map.

Newsreel: a unit of the Scottish Guards passes, alternates with a map of Africa.

A unit of colonial troops is passing by.

Map of the division of the world in the late 19th-early 20th centuries (animation).

Newsreel of the First World War, fighting on the fronts.

A burning airplane falls.

Cavalry under artillery fire.

The defeat of the ship by a torpedo fired from a submarine.

The sailors jump overboard.

A sinking warship turns upside down.

Heavy artillery is firing.

Hand-to-hand combat between German and French infantry (fragment of the x/ movie).

Photos of corpses of soldiers.

Photo of one of the soldiers' cemeteries.

Photo of a woman and children who received a letter about the death of their father at the front.

Photo of the remains and skeletons of dead soldiers in the trench.

Newsreel: rallies and demonstrations in the USA and Western Europe after the end of the First World War.

Speeches of speakers at rallies.

Dispersal of the demonstration by the mounted police.

Workers demonstrate on the streets of cities in Europe and the USA.

Panorama of a part of Zurich.

Portrait of Lenin.

Wheels of a locomotive starting to move.

View of the railway track.