II Congress of the Comintern (1920)

Panorama of the Moscow Kremlin cathedrals (top).

Symbols of autocratic power, removed from the facades of buildings, lying by the wall of the Grand Kremlin Palace.

Five-pointed star with the inscription "RSFSR".

Red flag over the Moscow Kremlin.

Panorama and views of the Moscow Kremlin from the Moskva River.

View and panorama of the Grand Kremlin Palace building.

A car drives up to the entrance to the palace, one of the delegates of the 2nd Congress of the Comintern gets out of the car and goes to the meeting.

The delegates of the 2nd Congress of the Comintern show their passes to the guards at the entrance to the palace, and go inside.

The guards at the entrance check the delegates' passes.

Interior view of the exhibition of the People's Commissariat of Education of the RSFSR, organized for the delegates of the congress, in the corridor leading to the Throne Room of the Grand Kremlin Palace.

The delegates enter the hall before the start of the first meeting in Moscow on July 23, 1920. Delegates in the meeting room of the 2nd Congress of the Comintern (panorama).

Zinoviev G.E., Lenin V.I., Serrati D. at the table of the presidium of the meeting.

Zinoviev works with documents during the break in the meeting.

Guilbeau A. among the members of the French delegation.

One of the delegates works with documents.

Radek K.B. among the delegates from Poland (panorama), with the French delegate Cachin M. sitting nearby.

The congress delegates discuss current issues during the break in the meeting.

Zinoviev is talking on the telephone.

He hangs up and leaves with one of the delegates.

Speeches by delegates of the 2nd Congress of the Comintern from the rostrum.

The face of one of the delegates.

Indian delegate Roy M.N. sits by the window during the break in the meeting.

Congress delegates working in commissions and talking in the corridors during the break in the meeting.

People's Commissar of Education of the RSFSR Lunacharsky A.V. sits by the window during the break in the meeting.

A congress delegate speaks from the rostrum, with Radek K.B. sitting behind him at the presidium table.

Trotsky L.D. speaks from the podium.

Speech by one of the delegates.

Delegates of the 2nd Comintern Congress at the entrance to the dormitory building, a car drives up to the entrance.

Panorama of part of the rally on Khodynka Field in honor of the 2nd Congress of the Comintern on August 2, 1920, with a propaganda truck standing.

Red Army soldiers and a military brass band at the rally (panorama).

Italian delegate Bombacci N. sits in a car with other delegates.

Congress delegates on a tribune decorated with banners (panorama).

A military bandmaster conducts a choir of Red Army soldiers, panorama of the formation.

View of part of the rally and the tribune.

Bombacci speaks from the tribune.

Rally participants applaud.

One of the congress delegates speaks.

Rally participants listen to the speakers, standing and sitting on the grass.

View of part of Red Square during the parade and ceremonial events in honor of the delegates of the 2nd Congress of the Comintern on July 27, 1920. Navy sailors pass by.

A column of pioneers passes by.

Columns of representatives of youth organizations and pre-conscripts enter the field of the Moscow Hippodrome during the sports festival in honor of the 2nd Congress of the Comintern on July 28, 1920. A model of a sailing ship on parade, followed by children with oars on their shoulders.

Sportsmen-equestrians ride by.

Spectators watch the parade (panorama, from above).

Continuation of the sports parade.

Carrying out of the building of funeral wreaths and the coffin with the body of the Norwegian delegate Augusta Aasen, who died as a result of an accident on Khodynka Field.

Placing the coffin on the hearse.

The movement of the funeral procession along the streets of Moscow to Red Square on August 6, 1920. Red Army soldiers carry the coffin.

Funeral speeches are delivered on Red Square, with Balabanova A.I. and Swedish delegate Dahlström K. speaking.

The coffin with Aasen's body is lowered into the grave.

Gravediggers filling a grave.

View of the main staircase of the Grand Kremlin Palace.

A meeting of the newly elected Executive Committee of the Comintern chaired by G. E. Zinoviev.

The congress delegates leave the building of the Grand Kremlin Palace, among them Zinoviev, the Indian delegate M. N. Roy.

The delegates near the symbols of autocratic power removed from the facades of buildings, among the delegates are G. E. Zinoviev, N. I. Bukharin, D. Seratti, the delegates climb onto the lying double-headed eagles, fooling around.

The delegates walk along the balcony of the Grand Kremlin Palace.

Bukharin, Radek and Zinoviev on the balcony of the Grand Kremlin Palace.

The members of the Executive Committee of the Comintern, headed by Zinoviev, enter the Grand Kremlin Palace.

View of the building of the Bolshoi Theater, where the final session of the 2nd Congress of the Comintern was held on August 7, 1920. Kalinin M.I., German delegate Levi P. at the table of the presidium of the session.

Panorama of the presidium of the session (top), members of the presidium applaud.

Scottish delegate Heliker delivers a speech, standing in front of the table of the presidium, Levi P., Kalinin M.I. applaud at the table.

Faces of the members of the presidium (panorama), Zinoviev G.E. stands up.

Finnish delegate Manner K. speaks.

View of part of the presidium (top).

German delegate Levi P. speaks, members of the presidium, Kalinin M.I., Trotsky L.D., Serrati D. applaud, sit down.

Panorama of the boxes and part of the hall of the Bolshoi Theater, faces of the delegates listening to Levi's speech.

Panorama of the presidium on the stage, members of the presidium applauding and sitting down (top).

Radek K.B. speaking from the stage of the Bolshoi Theatre, standing in front of the presidium table.

Panorama of part of the hall, delegates in the box.

Members of the presidium of the meeting during Radek's speech (panorama).

Panorama of part of the presidium, a side box and part of the auditorium during Radek's speech (top).

Delegates in the hall listen to Radek's speech.

Trotsky comes out on the stage, members of the presidium applaud standing, in the presidium - Sokolnikov G.Ya., Levi P. Serrati D. Members of the presidium applaud Trotsky (panorama, top).

Trotsky speaks standing on the stage with his back to the presidium table, panoramic view of part of the presidium, in the presidium are Kalinin M.I., Zinoviev G.E., Levi P., Serrati D. Panorama and views of the hall of the Bolshoi Theater during Trotsky's speech (above).

Trotsky continues his speech.

Trotsky leaves the stage, takes his place in the presidium, the members of the presidium applaud.

Serrati shouts "Hurray", next to him at the presidium table are Trotsky and Levi.

Chairman of the Executive Committee of the Comintern Zinoviev G.E. speaks, addresses the members of the presidium and the hall.

Continuation of Zinoviev's speech.

Panorama of part of the presidium during Zinoviev's speech (above).

Delegates and participants of the meeting in the theater boxes, among them is Yenukidze A.S. Panorama of the hall.

The members of the presidium listen to Zinoviev, Zinoviev continues to speak, gesticulating.

Faces of congress delegates sitting in the hall (panorama).

Representatives of the All-Russian Central Executive Committee, the Moscow Soviet, and party and trade union organizations in the boxes of the Bolshoi Theater during the final session of the 2nd Congress of the Comintern.

Panorama of part of the stalls.

Heliker speaking.

Excerpts from the speeches of Levi, Zinoviev, and Trotsky.

Sokolnikov, Levi, Zinoviev, Kalinin, and the members of the presidium rise from their seats after the announcement of the end of the work of the congress.

Panorama: Sokolnikov, Serrati, Levi standing at the presidium table, Kalinin declaring the final session closed.

The members of the presidium applaud.

Serrati, Trotsky, Levi, Zinoviev, Kalinin, and Radek sing "The Internationale" while standing in the presidium (panorama).

Faces of the members of the presidium performing "The Internationale", among them Sokolnikov, Serrati, Trotsky, Levi, Zinoviev, Kalinin (panorama).

Serrati, standing next to Trotsky, pronounces slogans, shouts "Hurray".

The faces of Serrati and Trotsky, the members of the presidium begin to disperse.