The First Steps of the Land of Soviets

The storming of the Winter Palace (footage from the feature film "October" by S. M. Eisenstein). The first documents of the Soviet power: the appeal "To the citizens of Russia", the Decree on Peace, the Decree on the Land, the Decree on the Formation of the Government, the Declaration of the Rights of the Peoples of Russia, the Declaration of the Rights of the Working People and the Exploited People. Brochures with the works of V. I. Lenin "The main task of our days", "The immediate tasks of the Soviet power", with the text of the Constitution of the RSFSR, adopted by the V All-Russian Congress of Soviets in 1918. Filming of V.I. Lenin for 1918-1920. Speech by Ya.M. Sverdlov (1919). Communist subbotnik: people carry beams, sailors dig the ground (1920s). Peasants go to work, miners work in the face. Adults in a class to eradicate illiteracy. Children in kindergarten. Figures of literature and art: V. V. Mayakovsky, S. A. Yesenin, F. I. Shalyapin.

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1987