The transition period from capitalism to socialism (1983)

Stills from the film "October" by Sergei Eisenstein (the storming of the Winter Palace).

Stills from the film "Vyborg Side" (directed by G. Kozintsev and L. Trauberg).

Photograph of Karl Marx.

Old photograph - Column Hall of the House of Unions, meeting of the young Soviet government.

In the frame - the title page of the book "Programmatic Documents of the Struggle for Peace, Democracy and Socialism".

Works of Marx and Engels - the book opens, pages are turned.

In the frame - a quote from the book.

Close-up - the book of Marx and Engels "Manifesto of the Communist Party", a panorama of Marx's book "Critique of the Gotha Program".

The book of V. I. Lenin opens, pages are turned.

In the frame - a quote from the book.

Chronicle of the 1920-1930s - workers in production, miners with mine carts, workers in a mine, with a jackhammer, metallurgical production, factories, pipes, buildings, etc., a steam locomotive with a banner "

All power to the Soviets"

is moving, a train is moving, Red Army soldiers are visible in boxcars, soldiers on the roof of the train, in the frame - a Japanese warship, foreign soldiers, military, armored cars are moving, military equipment, a cart is moving, cavalry is attacking, a military brass band is playing, banners dedicated to Magnitka are visible, an excavator is loading cars, various shots from factories, production, iron smelting, classes with the illiterate population, children are given books, literacy training for the population.

Modern shots - students in an institute auditorium, at a lecture.

Chronicle of the 1920-1930s - collective farms, collectivization, agitators communicate with the people, peasants sign up for a collective farm, vote, a tractor drives by, various agricultural machinery is in the field, etc.

Modern footage - foreign students at a Soviet university, during a practical lesson, working with equipment.

A teacher explains to a foreign student how the device works.

Soviet doctors examine a dark-skinned patient.

Doctors during an operation.

A collage of different photographs - old and modern.

Drawing "Paris Commune".

Drawing "The Court of the Paris Commune".

Drawing - "The Uprising of the Paris Commune".

Three forms of the dictatorship of the proletariat - the Paris Commune, the Soviets and People's Democracy.

Various drawings on the theme of the Paris Commune.

Chronicle of the 1916-1917s - revolutionary demonstrations, rallies, etc.

In the frame - a map of the countries of the socialist camp.

Poster - "Lenin's Party is our vanguard".

Common features of all forms of the dictatorship of the proletariat are listed (different Soviet propaganda posters are shown).

Collage of Soviet propaganda posters.

A book by V. I. Lenin is opened, pages are turned.

In the frame - a quote from the book.

Stills from the film "Vyborg Side" (directed by G. Kozintsev and L. Trauberg).

Chronicle of the 1917-1920s - a military brass band, city residents walking down the street, a parade, soldiers saluting, people marching in formation across the square, cavalry riding by, workers repairing an old locomotive, people on subbotniks, at a construction site, footage from meetings, rallies, etc.

Chronicle of the 1920-1930s - footage from factories, production processes, a metallurgical plant, metal smelting, a moving cast-iron ladle, the frame shows the plant's territory, pipes, structures, steelmakers at work, hot metal, fire, etc.

Modern footage - a metallurgical plant, the production process in the workshops, steelmakers at work.

Chronicle of the 1920-1930s - residents of Central Asia walk across the field with hoes, shovels in their hands, agricultural work in the fields, in the frame there are carts with horses, an excavator scoops up pieces of rock, loads them into cars, loaded trains are moving, workers tamp the soil with their feet, footage of the construction of a hydroelectric power station, a peasant on a horse plowing the land, various agricultural work, threshing, etc.

Chronicle of the 1930-1940s - a panorama of the fields, in the frame there are various agricultural work, harvesting, haymaking, tractors are moving, various agricultural machinery, etc.

Chronicle of the 1930-1940s - a metallurgical plant, steelmakers are working, footage of the production process, hot metal is poured, etc.

Map of the USSR, showing statistical data (growth of gross output of large-scale industry of the USSR in comparison for 1913 and 1939).

Chronicle of the 1930-1940s - All-Union elder Kalinin M.I. at a meeting with workers, Soviet citizens meet a foreign guest, representatives of different peoples of the USSR vote in elections, voting in the hall, rally, crowd of people with flags and banners, etc.

Chronicle of the 1940-1950s - in the frame - President of the GDR Wilhelm Pieck, Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the GDR Otto Grotewohl, Georgy Dimitrov, Klement Gottwald and others.

Panorama of Soviet newspapers.

Chronicle of the 1920-1930s - Alexey Stakhanov in the coalface with a jackhammer, people with flowers congratulate Stakhanov, a tractor driver at the wheel of a tractor, etc.

Map of the USSR, showing the socialist class structure of society in percentages (compared to 1913).

Chronicle of the 1920s - children are given books, textbooks, writing materials, children in class, write with pens, a teacher in a headscarf draws on the board, children are taught to read, a peasant woman takes books from the shelf.

Modern footage - students in the audience at a lecture.

Chronicle of the 1917-1920s - people at a parade with flags and banners.

Modern footage - demonstrations and rallies in the USSR and in different countries.

Map of the RSFSR, the city of Moscow is marked, the Union Republics appear on the map.

Congress of the CPSU, panorama of the hall, Yu. A. Andropov speaks from the rostrum, view of people in the hall.

World map, rays of light extend from the USSR to different countries.

In the frame are the Kremlin, Spasskaya Tower, the Grand Kremlin Palace, the embankment of the Moskva River, etc.

View from above - the Moskva River, bridge, high-rise building.

White House, panorama of the bridge, river.

Old photo of Moscow.

In the frame - Berlin TV tower.

Various photos of cities and countries.