Три весны Ленина. English.

Three springs.

Moscow : Central Documentary Film Studios, 1965.

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Documentary on the life and work of Vladimir Lenin, told in three parts using extensive archive footage and photographic stills. Part one, "A Spring Of Hope" is an illustration of the general social conditions prevalent in pre-revolution Russia. It explores Lenin's political activities, his exile to Shushenskoye in Siberia, and the formation of the League of Struggle for the Emancipation of the Working Class. Part two, "The Spring Of The Offensive" explores the events of 1917 and 1918: the fall of the Tsarist regime, political transition, the Bolsheviks' struggle for peace with Germany, the October Revolution, the creation of a revolutionary army and the assassination attempt on Lenin. Part Three, "The Spring Of Victory", includes the Soviet Government move to Moscow and Lenin's work to consolidate political power and implement socialist policies, as well as Lenin's ill health and move to Gorky. Concludes with the work for the electrification of Russia, including the development and construction of hydro-electric plants. Includes footage of the Winter Palace after it had been stormed in the October Revolution, of the cruiser Aurora and the Smolny Institute, of Russian troops heading to the front line and the conference for the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk.Shots include the following; stills of early revolutionaries in the late 19th century, early shots of St Petersburg. Stills of Tsarist Russian middle classes, a priest blessing factories, villages, destitute peasants moving to the cities. Post-February 1917: Bolshevik pamphlets read in streets by first World War veterans. Flashback to 1914 and troops going to the front. May Day demonstration in 1917 with First World War veterans. Kerensky and the Menshevik faction. June 18th demonstration pro- and anti-First World War demonstrations. Lenin touted as a German spy. 3rd July massacre. November 8th: stills of a ransacked Winter Palace the day after the Revolution. Red Guards marching. January 1918 defence of Petrograd against German invasion. Stills of the Brest Litovsk Conference and Trotsky. Stills of the signing of the Brest Litovsk Treaty. Bolshevik Government moves to Moscow, bullet-marked Kremlin buildings. Stills of Lenin convalescing in Gorki. Stills of Bolshevik leaders. Rebuilding Russia with shots of mines, steel and factory workers. Starvation and food handouts in Moscow. Pavlov in Moscow. 1918 New York skyline, new dam and grain heaps. Building of the first Hydro electric station at Volkhov.

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October 21, 2024

Director, Leonid Kristi ; script, Leonid Kristi ; camera, Oleg Artseulov

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