Algebra of Revolution

A film about the history of the origin of Bolshevism in Russia, the stages of its development and the role of V. I. Lenin in the international communist movement. Photos of V. I. Lenin, A. Bogdanov, L. D. Trotsky. Lenin's manuscripts. Lenin's office in the Kremlin. Newsreel. Lenin's speeches. Unemployed. Hungry children. Shop of a metallurgical plant. Workers in the blacksmith shop; children work in a glass-blowing shop. Workers strikes. Participants in demonstrations, rallies in China, India and other countries. Soldiers and police disperse and beat the demonstrators. Nicholas II receives a parade of Russian troops. Chronicle footage of the First World War. Photos of the period of the February, October Revolution of 1917: Smolny, Winter Palace, armed Red Guards, workers, members of the Provisional Government, among them A.F. Kerensky. Revolutionary events in Germany, K. Liebknecht speaks; in Hungary, Bela Kun bypasses revolutionary troops (1918). Photos of the meeting room dedicated to the 50th anniversary of the birth of V. I. Lenin (April 23, 1920). House in Poronino (Poland), where Lenin lived. House-Museum of V.I.Lenin in Gorki (Moscow region). Moscow city. 1924 year. Column Hall of the House of Unions. N.K.Krupskaya at the coffin of V.I.Lenin, at a memorial meeting on Red Square. Meeting of delegations of communist and workers' parties in Moscow. Delegates are speaking, Leonid Brezhnev (synchronously). The meeting participants lay wreaths at the Lenin Mausoleum.

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Script G. Fradkin, B. Yakovlev, music D. Mikhailov