Newsreel: the commissar is leading the fighters into the attack. V. I. Lenin on the podium during the parade of the Vsevobuch troops (General military training of citizens of the USSR) on Red Square in 1919. Photos: the building of the Political Institute; M. Ya. Apletin - the first head of the Political Institute. Speech by MI Kalinin, AS Bubnov before the cadets of the Military-Political Academy. Entrance exams to the Military-Political Academy of Applicant Officers. Students of the academy at lectures, seminars, training sessions at the tankodrome, at the airfield; visiting museums, exhibitions, meetings with cultural figures. Participation of students of the Academy in military parades on Red Square. Presentation of diplomas to graduates of the Academy. Reception of graduates of the Military-Political Academy named after V. I. Lenin in the Kremlin.