Bagmen Flood Moscow (1917)
Description: A train carrying soldiers from the front and 'bagmen' with their black-market grain. Private grain traders or smugglers called bagmen bringing grain from the countryside were often the only source of food for city dwellers in the first year of the revolution. Historical Footage, 1917.
Source: Russian State Film & Photo Archive at Krasnogorsk (2000).
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
