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Russia's struggle

These tinted slides illustrated a talk on the revolutionary 'struggle' against the Tsarist regime, and the upheavals of the October Revolution and Russian Civil War. They include photographs of revolution, the Red Army, and destruction as a result of war, as well as portraits of leading figures. Slides for a companion lecture on 'Russia's labours' (on the lives of ordinary Russians in the new Soviet society) are also available.

Most of the slides were produced by the Victor Animatograph Company of Davenport, Iowa, USA (some as part of the Hillis "Better America" Lecture Series), and were ironically probably intended for use in anti-Bolshevik lectures in the United States during the 1920s. It is likely that Henry Sara purchased them during his 1922 lecture tour of the USA, where he spoke on behalf of the Friends of Soviet Russia. An advertisement for "Communist Party. Lantern lecture by Henry Sara. "Russia's Struggle"" is included in the Dundee Evening Telegraph of 1 March 1923.

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  • Russia's struggle
    Russia's struggle
  • St Basil's Cathedral, Moscow
    St Basil's Cathedral, Moscow
  • Ivan III (1440-1505)
    Ivan III (1440-1505)
  • Ivan IV (1530-84)
    Ivan IV (1530-84)
  • Peter the Great (1672-1725)
    Peter the Great (1672-1725)
  • Alexander III (1845-1894)
    Alexander III (1845-1894)
  • Nicholas II
    Nicholas II
  • Distress
    Distress
  • Illness of intellectual
    Illness of intellectual
  • Arrest of agitator
    Arrest of agitator
  • Fearing arrest
    Fearing arrest
  • War Cossacks
    War Cossacks
  • Grand Duke Nicholas Nicholaievitch
    Grand Duke Nicholas Nicholaievitch
  • Money
    Money
  • Food of the workers
    Food of the workers
  • Bread queue
    Bread queue
  • Monument to Alexander III, Moscow
    Monument to Alexander III, Moscow
  • Monument to Alexander III, Moscow
    Monument to Alexander III, Moscow
  • Dismantling monument to Alexander III, Moscow
    Dismantling monument to Alexander III, Moscow
  • Dismantling monument to Alexander III, Moscow
    Dismantling monument to Alexander III, Moscow
  • Dismantling monument to Alexander III, Moscow
    Dismantling monument to Alexander III, Moscow
  • Giant Labour
    Giant Labour
  • Memories of suffering
    Memories of suffering
  • Breshkovskaia (Catherine Breshkovsky, 'Grandmother of the Russian Revolution')
    Breshkovskaia (Catherine Breshkovsky, 'Grandmother of the Russian Revolution')
  • Soldiers leave the Front
    Soldiers leave the Front
  • Sailors' Soviets
    Sailors' Soviets
  • Allied propagandists
    Allied propagandists
  • Bolsheviki agitators
    Bolsheviki agitators
  • Shooting Bolsheviki
    Shooting Bolsheviki
  • Duma
    Duma
  • Congress of Soviets
    Congress of Soviets
  • Peasant delegate
    Peasant delegate
  • Samara Soviet
    Samara Soviet
  • Women's Battalion
    Women's Battalion
  • Street patrol
    Street patrol
  • Kronstadt Sailors
    Kronstadt Sailors
  • Alexander Kerensky
    Alexander Kerensky
  • Funeral of Sailors, Vladivostok, 4th July 1918
    Funeral of Sailors, Vladivostok, 4th July 1918
  • Soldiers at the Winter Palace, Petrograd [St Petersburg]
    Soldiers at the Winter Palace, Petrograd [St Petersburg]
  • Hand to hand fighting
    Hand to hand fighting
  • Lenin addresses a meeting
    Lenin addresses a meeting
  • Troops outside the Bolshoi, Moscow
    Troops outside the Bolshoi, Moscow
  • Smolny
    Smolny
  • Guns outside Smolny
    Guns outside Smolny
  • Doors guarded
    Doors guarded
  • The Teachers Room
    The Teachers Room
  • Correspondents
    Correspondents
  • July Uprising - Petrograd [St Petersburg], 1917
    July Uprising - Petrograd [St Petersburg], 1917
  • Lavr Kornilov, killed April 1918. August 1918 Cossack and Tartar divisions on Petrograd.
    Lavr Kornilov, killed April 1918. August 1918 Cossack and Tartar divisions on Petrograd.
  • Funeral at Moscow
    Funeral at Moscow
  • Handling a rifle
    Handling a rifle
  • The State Bank
    The State Bank
  • The bourgeoisie sign on
    The bourgeoisie sign on
  • The bourgeoisie clearing snow
    The bourgeoisie clearing snow
  • Counter-Revolution
    Counter-Revolution
  • Provocateur in prison
    Provocateur in prison
  • The army demonstrates
    The army demonstrates
  • 'We Fall As Heroes'
    'We Fall As Heroes'
  • The Red Grave
    The Red Grave
  • Ruins
    Ruins
  • Ruins
    Ruins
  • Ruins
    Ruins
  • Prison in Lithuania
    Prison in Lithuania
  • Anton Denikin wrecks a train ('White' general in Russian civil war)
    Anton Denikin wrecks a train ('White' general in Russian civil war)
  • The Poles attack
    The Poles attack
  • Saving supplies
    Saving supplies
  • 1042. Poster
    1042. Poster
  • 'Let Us Smash The Polish Bourgeoise'
    'Let Us Smash The Polish Bourgeoise'
  • Recruits
    Recruits
  • Raw recruits
    Raw recruits
  • Registration for active service
    Registration for active service
  • Examination
    Examination
  • Brusilov with horses
    Brusilov with horses
  • Young officers
    Young officers
  • March past in Red Square, Moscow
    March past in Red Square, Moscow
  • Entraining
    Entraining
  • Uritsky Square, Petrograd [St Petersburg]
    Uritsky Square, Petrograd [St Petersburg]
  • Leon Trotsky
    Leon Trotsky
  • Leon Trotsky
    Leon Trotsky
  • Leon Trotsky
    Leon Trotsky
  • Leon Trotsky
    Leon Trotsky
  • Celebrations
    Celebrations
  • Cossack decorated
    Cossack decorated
  • May Day
    May Day
  • Congress
    Congress
  • Jackhim
    Jackhim
  • Joffe
    Joffe
  • Tcherine
    Tcherine
  • Mikhail Kalinin
    Mikhail Kalinin
  • Semasko
    Semasko
  • Yakov Sverdlov (died 1919)
    Yakov Sverdlov (died 1919)
  • Alexandra Kollontai
    Alexandra Kollontai
  • Nuroteva
    Nuroteva
  • Lenin
    Lenin
  • Trotsky, Lenin, Kamenev
    Trotsky, Lenin, Kamenev
  • John Reed
    John Reed
  • John Reed's funeral
    John Reed's funeral
  • Vladivostock, June 1918. 7,000 Czechs. HMS Suffolk.
    Vladivostock, June 1918. 7,000 Czechs. HMS Suffolk.
  • Education: posters
    Education: posters
  • Religion is the opium
    Religion is the opium
  • 'The Peasants and Workers Republic Shall Not Die'
    'The Peasants and Workers Republic Shall Not Die'

[Document reference for this set of slides: MSS.15B/5/1/14]