February Revolution of 1917 (1970)

Newsreel 1917: Gendarmes disperse strikers at one of the Petrograd factories.

The library where V.I. Lenin worked during his years in exile.

Manuscripts of V.I. Lenin, letters to the Bolsheviks from exile.

Newspaper with V.I. Lenin's article "War and Russian Social Democracy".

Newsreel 1914-1918: Soldiers in the trenches, a sinking American ship, exploding shells.

Photo: corpses on the battlefield.

Newsreel 1914-1918: Famine in Russia, a woman ploughs with exhausted horses.

Manufacturing shells for the front.

The factory whistle blares.

Workers leave the factory.

Fraternization of Russian and German soldiers at the front.

Newsreel 1917: Armed uprising: detachments of workers on the streets.

Peasants who have joined the rebels, dressed in soldiers' greatcoats.

The Volynsky Regiment passes by.

Soldiers carry slogans reading "Down with the war," "Greetings to the comrades in the trenches." The streets of Petrograd are filled with people.

Signs with the tsar's coat of arms are taken down.

Revolutionaries are released from prison.

Photo: a newspaper with an article by V.I. Lenin about the February Revolution is being sold.

Newsreel from 1917: Funeral on the Field of Mars in Petrograd.

Photo: soldiers reading newspapers.

Newsreel from 1917: Meeting of the Council of Workers', Soldiers', and Peasants' Deputies: workers, soldiers, and peasants at the meeting.

People on the street.

Meeting of the Soviets.

Newspapers with an appeal for no confidence in the Provisional Government are being distributed on the street.

The Pravda newspaper is being printed in the printing house.

The Pravda newspaper from 1917. "Letters from Afar" by V.I. Lenin in Pravda.

Letters of V.I. Lenin on the preparation of the second stage of the revolution.

Photo: V.I. Lenin and Russian political emigrants walk along the street of Stockholm.

Newsreel of 1917: A passenger train passes.

Rails (with movement).

Text of V.I. Lenin's "April Theses".

Newsreel of 1917: The wheels of a locomotive in motion - red.

Faces of a worker, a peasant, a sailor.