USSR: Russian Revolution

Record ID: 415

  • Title: USSR: Russian Revolution
  • Date: 21st January 1924
  • Summary: Demonstrators marching in streets carrying banners - 06' 23". Soldiers in trenches, explosions, broken bridge, wounded soldiers - 06'34". Mass demonstration, demonstrators shouting, crowds scattered as shooting starts, wreckage, ruined buildings - 06'46". Kerensky government - 07'21".Battleships firing guns - 07'29".Masses attacking and storming palace - 07'32". Lenin - various shots - 07'48".Lenin, Stalin and others, soldiers marching past Lenin on balcony - 08'05". Soldiers in street, Train with soldiers pass: shooting, explosions, machine-guns in operation, explosions, soldiers on horseback - 08'41". Forest in snow, the house where Lenin died, Lenin's body lying in state 09'01".Footnote:Until the revolution Russia used the 'Julian Calendar' while the majority of the world used the 'Gregorian Calendar' which, in 1917 varied by 13 days. After the revolution the Gregorian Calendar was adopted in Russia - this explains why the revolution culminating on 25 October is celebrated on 7 November.
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  • Location: RUSSIA PETROGRAD
  • Reuters ID: LDL000XO20OXB
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