A brief essay on the formation of Soviet power in various cities and republics of the USSR.




Demonstrators with banners.
Moscow Kremlin.
Soldiers marching along the street.
Public unrest.
People's faces.
Dissolve into photographs of cities, portraits of revolutionary figures.
Dissolve into view of the city, portrait.
Revolutionaries with flags.
Portrait.
Ural industrial enterprises.
Photographs.
Telegraphist transmits a message.
Cartoon: tape with telegram text.
Flag over the building.
Revolutionaries gather in Smolny.
Photographs.
People on the streets of cities.
Houses damaged by artillery shelling.
View of Kyiv from the river.
Troops on the streets of Kyiv.
Locomotive whistle, steam rising from the chimney.
Workers in a workshop.
Miners descending into the coalface.
Photographs.
Squads of armed men.
Distribution of weapons to workers.
Cavalry detachment.
People falling under gunfire.
A dead man.
Providing assistance to a wounded man.
Traces of shelling on the wall of a house.
Funeral procession.
Newspaper "Bulletin of the Ukrainian People's Republic". A.M.Kaledin at the head of a detachment.
Movement of cavalry troops.
Infantry marches along the streets of Petrograd.
Sending detachments to the Kaledin front. V.A.Antonov-Ovseenko.
Train with soldiers.
Soldiers shoot.
Explosions.
Infantry attack.
Machine gunners.
Cavalry attack.
Military convoy.
Alternation: cities of the USSR, portraits of revolutionary figures, photographs.
Cartoon: the advance of the revolution to the east of the country.
Banner in the wind.
Antonov-Ovseenko V.A. - revolutionary
1917-1918
USSR
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