Bolsheviks Seize Power Video

The October Revolution in Petrograd (1917)

Description: Newsreel footage from the days immediately following the October take-over, including clips from the Winter Palace, Bolshevik headquarters at the Smolny Institute, and selected revolutionary leaders.

Vsevolod Pudovkin: The End of St Petersburg (1927)

Description: Pudovkin provides a cinematic recreation of the great event in this film shot for the tenth anniversary of the revolution.

1917

EVENTS February Revolution Formation of the Soviets April Crisis Revolution in the Army July Days Kornilov Affair Bolsheviks Seize Power First Bolshevik Decrees Constituent Assembly Treaty of Brest Litovsk
FOUR KINDS OF STATES Communist Party Building Economic Apparatus Building the Soviets Red Guard into Army State Security
DISINTEGRATION OF THE OLD SOCIETY Depopulation of the Cities Food Supply Conflict with the Church Death of the Old Culture Destruction of the Left The Empire Falls
CREATION OF A NEW SOCIETY New Letters and Dates Culture and Revolution The New Woman Workers Organization Peasant Revolution Organs of the Press Raising Socialist Youth