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The history of the USSR: Russia under Lenin and Trotsky 1917-1924, film still, D 1969

Vladimir Ilyich Lenin, leader of the Bolsheviks and head of the government of Soviet Russia makes a speech. The film can be viewed at the viewing stations in the study centre of the Film Archive Austria.

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    The Russian Revolution and the Fragile Peace in the ‘East’

    Unlike the interim government that had been in office since the ‘February Revolution’, the Bolsheviks under Vladimir I. Lenin advocated an end to the ‘Imperial War’, and so managed not least of all to speak to battle-weary soldiers and large parts of the population. After the ‘October Revolution’ the new Soviet government under Lenin immediately sought to conclude a ceasefire.