To Storm the Tsarist Autocracy

Peter and Paul Fortress of St. Petersburg. Double-headed eagle. Working outskirts (photo). Smoke from the chimneys of factories. Workers are coming. Meeting. Pop Gapon among the crowd (photo). Nicholas II is walking along the line of soldiers. January 9, 1905. The people are coming. They carry slogans, icons, a portrait of the tsar. The soldiers are shooting. The crowd scatters. The wounded are being picked up (photo). Switzerland. City of Geneva (photo). The streets of the town. Leaflets. Russia. Labor exchange building. Peasants at the stock exchange (photo). Exchange owner (photo). The building of the flophouse. The inscription "Do not drink vodka. Do not have songs." Miners at work in the face. Metallurgical plant. Movers, barge haulers at work. Oil production. The horse walks in a circle. Assembly of the nobility (photo). Photos of Putilov. Chernov, Ryabushinsky. Industrialists are standing. Nicholas II is presented with bread and salt. Rural landscape. The peasant is plowing. Threshing. Old hut (photo). A woman with a child at the hut (photo). The peasants go to work. The bell is ringing. Landowners' estates are on fire. Rallies of workers on the river, near the school (photo). Fighting in Manchuria: soldiers in the trenches, firing guns. Seeing off to the army. The newspaper "Vperyod" with the article "The Fall of Port Arthur". Photos of Lenin. Lenin among the group "Union of Struggle". Iskra newspaper. Lenin's books "The Development of Capitalism in Russia", "What to Do", "Step Forward...." Demonstrations on city streets, photographs of Leninist workers. Notice of the convocation of the III Congress of the RSDLP. Photos of the delegates to the congress. England. London. Carriages are going by. Announcement of the convocation of a congress of the Mensheviks in Geneva. The text of the minutes of the III Congress of the RSDLP. Pages of the book "Two tactics of social democracy...." Battleship Potemkin. Sailors on the battleship (photo). Kronstadt. Soldiers in the port (photo). The cruiser "Ochakov". Photo by Lieutenant Schmidt. Schmidt is being taken to execution (photo). The newspaper "Government Gazette" with the Tsar's manifesto. Demonstration of the bourgeoisie. They carry portraits of the tsar and his family. Panorama of the victims of the pogrom (photo). The funeral of N. Bauman (photo). Deputies of the Ivanovo-Voznesensky Council. Demonstration acceleration (photo). Combat squads are marching (photo). Newspaper with advice to the insurgent workers. Barricades. Cossack patrol (photo). The soldiers are leading the arrested. Execution of workers (photo). Punitive expeditions map. The Semenovsky regiment is coming. Ruins of houses, killed (photo).

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Screenplay by S. Zenin