Tuesday, February 24, 2009

The 1917 October Revolution

Russian 1917 October Revolution

Here are some images and videos of representation of the October Revolution.


“Storming the Winter Palace” - Painting by Iuri Annenkov, 1920.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jjFoqVg218w

Clip from the Movie “October: Ten Days that Shook the World” by Sergei Eisenstein (1927)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tkWeyVq9jo0

Clip from the Movie “End of St. Petersburg” By Vsevolod Pudovkin (1927)

Both the movies were made to Celebrate the Tenth Anniversary of the October Revolution. And these clips from the film are of the part where the masses are shown as ’storming the Winter Palace’, thus signifying the fall of the Provisional Government.




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