Culture and Revolution Video

Storming the Winter Palace (1920)

Description: A mass spectacle with over 10,000 participants reenacted the historical event on the third anniversary of the Revolution. Trucks with soldiers arrive. Generals and ministers on the steps of the Winter Palace. The Provisional Government presides, with Aleksandr Kerenskii speaking. Prisoners leave the prisons. Uprising of the worker-blacksmiths. Workers and soldiers storm Winter Palace. Sailors in formation.

Lenin in Newsreels (1923)

Description: This compilation of Lenin's public appearances was taken from various issues of the official Soviet newsreel, Goskinokalendar.

The Living Maiakovskii (1972)

Description: Clip from The Lady and the Hooligan (1918), a scenario by Vladimir Maiakovskii. Maiakovskii played the role of the hooligan. This was one of the first feature films of the post-revolutionary era.

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