A film from a series of educational films on social studies for high school students. Made by order of the RSFSR People's Commissariat of Education. The film includes a chronicle dedicated to the First World War; The February Revolution of 1917; The October Revolution of 1917; the social and political life of Russia in the 1914-1920s; development of industry, agriculture; Civil War and Intervention; construction sites of the first five-year plans, as well as staged shooting. Filming in different years: one of the festive military parades, present: IV Stalin, KE Voroshilov, VM Molotov; children and adolescents in kindergartens, schools, pioneer camps, at pioneer rallies, in the classroom in technical circles; NK Krupskaya and AM Gorky at the meeting of pioneers.