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