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Description: | Russian officer cadet in St Petersburg, Russia, 1916-1917; present during Russian Revolution, 1917
REEL 1 Recollections of period as Russian officer cadet in St Petersburg, Russia, 1916-1917: effects of Lenin's speech to Russian crowd; view of Lenin's failed attempt to speak to workers of armaments factory and subsequent muted reception for speech from Kerensky; escape by train from Petrograd to demarcation line and story of meeting of several officers in disguise; impressions of state of Russian morale on arrival from London, 11/1916; reactions to commencement of revolution and abdication of Tsar; reactions to orders from Petrograd Soviet removing power of officers; reception for Lenin on his arrival from Germany; different political groupings and emergence of Bolsheviks opposed to continuation of war with Germany; deteriorating position of Kerensky. | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Creator: | BBC | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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