Russian Revolution during World War I. HD Stock Footage

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Russian Revolution during World War I.

The Russian Revolution of 1917. Scenes of trench warfare on the Western Front. Ill-equipped Russian troops in the field, and suffering from pestilence and disease. Scenes of St Petersburg, Russia, March 1917, during demonstrations for increased bread rations. Responding Russian troops defect and join demands for the transfer of power from the Czar to an elected parliament. Minister of Justice in the Provisional Government Alexander Kerensky speaks to a large crowd. Czar Nicholas II, who has abdicated, sitting on a stump, with a few guards behind him. Political prisoners are freed from prisons. Leon Trotsky, speaking from a train platform,upon his return from exile in Canada. Summer, 1917, Alexander Kerensky becomes Head of the Provisional Government. Kerensky, standing in the balcony of a building, proclaims Russia a republic. A large crowd gathered outside the building. Vladimir Ilyich Lenin speaking to a large crowd on the Kerensky Republic. View of Farmer workers with shovels in a field. Lenin and Trotsky call for the members of the Farmer Worker Army Union Soviet to work against the Kerensky Republic. View of Lenin speaking against the Republic and for class warfare. Lenin's Bolsheviks sieze the railroad stations, telegraph lines, and government offices. Events on November 25 after the Russian Revolution : A number of people on a street during elections called for by Kerensky. Lenin's Bolshevik loses. People in the streets. The elected assembly meets under the protection of Trotsky's Red Army and refuses to turn power over to the Lenin Soviet. The members of the elected assembly are seen finally leaving. A crowd protests against the dismissal of the elected assembly, to no avail.. Lenin speaking to a large crowd. He speaks about the power won and maintained by violence. Views of the crowd. Location: Russia. Date: 1917.

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