К 100-летней годовщине Октябрьской революции 1917 года

NOV2962226 Red Guards Carry Coffin, 1917 (b/w photo); (add.info.: 10/30/1917 Red Guards carrying a coffin. RIA Novosti/Sputnik Moscow, Russia); Sputnik; out of copyright

Lenin haranguing deputies of the 2nd Soviet Congress, Smolny Palace, St Petersburg, 1917. This meeting on 26 October 1917, the day after the storming of the Winter Palace, saw the establishment of the Bolshevik-dominated Soviet government, with Lenin (1870-1924) as chairman. Credit: Ann Ronan Picture Library / HIP / TopFoto *** Local Caption *** Lenin haranguing deputies of the 2nd Soviet Congress, Smolny Palace, St Petersburg, 1917.

'Red Guard soldiers with a captured armoured car, Petrograd, Russia, 25 October, 1917. Fighting during the October Revolution, which broke out in Petrograd (St Petersburg) on 25 October 1917. Found in the collection of the Russian State Film and Photo Archive, Krasnogorsk.'

NOV2962235 Armor squad of the Red Army central staff, 1917 (b/w photo); (add.info.: 10/27/1917 An armor squad of the Red Army central staff. RIA Novosti/Sputnik Moscow, Russia); Sputnik; out of copyright

NOV2962231 Troops with a cannon at the Moscow Soviet building, 1917 (b/w photo); (add.info.: 10/01/1917 Troops with a cannon at the Moscow Soviet building. RIA Novosti/Sputnik Moscow, Russia); Sputnik; out of copyright

Emperor Nicholas II at window of the own railroad car, 1917. Artist: Anonymous *** Local Caption *** 'Emperor Nicholas II at window of the own railroad car, 1917. Found in the collection of State History Museum, Moscow. ARTIST'S COPYRIGHT MUST ALSO BE CLEARED.'

Mandatory Credit: Photo by Universal History Archive/UIG/REX/Shutterstock (4428358a) Alexander Kerensky (1881 ? 11 June 1970) lawyer and major political leader after the Russian Revolution of 1917 VARIOUS

NOV2962236 Red Army patrol by the fire, 1917 (b/w photo); (add.info.: 10/27/1917 A Red Army patrol by the fire in a street of Petrograd during the first days of October revolution. Shtainberg/Sputnik Russia); Sputnik; out of copyright

NOV2962297 Queue for food, 1917 (b/w photo); (add.info.: 10/01/1917 A line for food products. RIA Novosti/Sputnik Moscow, Russia); Sputnik; out of copyright

NOV2962234 A squad of armed Red Army guards on truck, 1917 (b/w photo); (add.info.: 10/19/1917 A squad of armed Red Army guards on a truck, October Revolution. RIA Novosti/Sputnik Russia); Sputnik; out of copyright

'Vladimir Ilich Lenin, Russian Bolshevik revolutionary leader, speaking from a rostrum, 1917. Lenin (1870-1924) became leader of the Bolshevik faction of the Russian Social Democratic and Labour Party in 1903. He became involved in revolutionary politics when studying law at University in the late 1880s. In 1895 he was arrested by the authorities, serving a year's imprisonment followed by four years exile to Siberia. In 1906 he left Russia for security reasons, becoming the focus of the revolutionary opposition abroad. Lenin returned to Russia in 1917 after the February Revolution, but had to flee to Finland after a failed workers' uprising in July. In October the Bolsheviks overthrew Alexander Kerensky's Provisional Government in a further revolution, and Lenin was elected Premier of the Soviet Union. He was wounded in an assassination attempt in 1918 and this, together with the strains of revolution and the ensuing Civil War, led to a deterioration in his health. After a stroke left him partially paralysed in 1922, Lenin's active role in government declined. Found in the collection of the State Central Museum of Contemporary History of Russia, Moscow.'

Mandatory Credit: Photo by Universal History Archive/UIG/REX/Shutterstock (4428363a) Office of the Tsar Nicholas II of Russia, looted during the Russian revolution, 1917. VARIOUS

Nationalising the factory From a drawing by I. Deits Russia 1917

'Storming the Winter Palace' by Russian artist V. Deshalyt 1917 Supplied By: SCRSS - Society for Co-operation in Russian & Soviet Studies

An illustration of sailors from the cruiser Aurora on the attack in Petrograd. Painting by P. Shukhmin. 25 October 1917 Supplied By: Society fo year r Co-operation in Russian & Soviet Studies

SZT3022388 October Revolution, 1917 (b/w photo); (add.info.: Moscow, Moscow (Province), Russia October Revolution - the takeover of the Russian communist Bolsheviks in 1917. The Red Guards, soldiers and sailors, stormed the former Tsar's palace (Winter Palace). The castle is defended by women cadets and units, who belong to the social-revolutionary government of Kerensky. Photo following a painting by W. Kuznetsov. Oktoberrevolution, 1917); В© SZ Photo / Scherl; out of copyright

Lenin speaks at the Putilov Works, May 1917 From a painting by I. Brodsky

Mandatory Credit: Photo by Universal History Archive/Universal Images Group/REX/Shutterstock (2548372a) Russian Revolution, October 1917. Vladimir Ilyich Lenin (Ulyanov) 1870-1924 addressing the crowd in Red Square, Moscow. History

NOV2962224 Red Guards Pose Next to Armored Cars, 1917 (b/w photo); (add.info.: 10/26/1917 Red Guards posing next to armored cars in October 1917. RIA Novosti/Sputnik Russia); Sputnik; out of copyright

Lenin at the 2nd All-Russia Congress of Soviets A fragment from a painting by V. Serov November 1917

Field guns and barricades : October Revolution in Petrograd , Russia 25 October 1917

'Storming the Winter Palace', Painted by Nikolai Kochergin. 1917 Supplied By: SCRSS - Society for Co-operation in Russian & Soviet Studies

The Decree on Peace From a painting by V. F. Ivanov The Decree On Peace, written by Vladimir Lenin, was passed by the Second Congress of the Soviet of Workers', Soldiers', and Peasants' Deputies on the 8 November [O.S. 26 October] 1917, following the success of the October Revolution. It was published in the Izvestiya newspaper, #208, 9 November [O.S. 27 October] 1917. It proposed an immediate withdrawal of Russia from World War I

Lenin's Decree on Peace was the first document of the Soviet State. 26 October 1917 Supplied By: SCRSS - Society for Co-operation in Russian & Soviet Studies.

The Cruiser 'Aurora', which heralded with a shot of her Fo'c'sle Gun, on 25 October 1917 , the beginning of The Great October Socialist Revolution Supplied By: SCRSS - Society for Co-operation in Russian & Soviet Studies.

Lenin in Smolny From a painting by V. Serov 1917

UIG532113 Leon Trotsky; (add.info.: Leon Trotsky, communist theorist and agitator, a leader in Russia’s October Revolution in 1917, and later commissar of foreign affairs and of war in the Soviet Union (1917-1924).); Encyclopaedia Britannica/UIG; out of copyright

Workers and revolutionary soldiers of Pskov greeting the victory of Soviet power, November 1917

Mandatory Credit: Photo by Universal History Archive/Universal Images Group/REX/Shutterstock (2548366a) Russian Revolution October 1917: History

RPP2645191 Leaflet Announcing the Bolshevik Overthrow of the Provisional Government by Vladimir Lenin, 1917 by Russian School, (20th century); 17.1x13.2 cm; Private Collection; (add.info.: The founding document of Soviet Russia, announcing the Bolshevik overthrow of Kerensky's government. The text of this leaflet was written by Vladimir Lenin. Different examples are known - this is one of the smaller size versions. 1917); Photo В© Tobie Mathew Collection; PERMISSION REQUIRED TO LICENSE MORE THAN FIVE IMAGES FROM THIS COLLECTION IN A SINGLE PUBLICATION; Russian, it is possible that some works by this artist may be protected by third party rights in some territories

The masses take forcible charge of their own destiny : Machine guns in action against revolutionists in Petrograd 1917

Still photograph taken from the act of the assault and storming of the Winter Palace, the decisive attack of the proletarian revolution. 25 October 1917 Supplied By: SCRSS - Society for Co-operation in Russian & Soviet Studies

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Meeting of the working people of Tver in the period of struggle for Soviet rule 1917

Mandatory Credit: Photo by Universal History Archive/Universal Images Group/REX/Shutterstock (2548365a) Russian Revolution, 1917: Marchers in St Petersburg History

Mandatory Credit: Photo by Universal History Archive/Universal Images Group/REX/Shutterstock (2544194a) The Romanovs (ruling family of Russia) 1913. Nicholas II (1868-1918), Tsar of Russia 1894-1917, with his wife and children, including the Tsarevich Alexi who suffered from Haemophilia. History

Mandatory Credit: Photo by Universal History Archive/Universal Images Group/REX/Shutterstock (2544895a) War cabinet of the Provisional Government of Russia, under Alexander Kerensky, who took over the leadership of the government on 24 July 1917. Kerensky himself sits at position no 1. History

Mandatory Credit: Photo by Universal History Archive/UIG/REX/Shutterstock (4425777a) Russian revolution Labourer's deputation on the Dvortsovyi Square, Petrograd. The Russian Revolution is the collective term for a series of revolutions in Russia in 1917, which dismantled the Tsarist autocracy and led to the creation of the Russian SFSR. VARIOUS

Mandatory Credit: Photo by SeM/Universal Images Group/REX/Shutterstock (4434927a) World War I 1914 1918. Russia 1915. Russia 1917. A bolshevic sodier in a propaganda poster. Private collection. VARIOUS

Mandatory Credit: Photo by Universal History Archive/UIG/REX/Shutterstock (4425780a) Russian revolution: Burial of the victims of the revolution, 1917. Fraternal grave in Petrograd. The Russian Revolution is the collective term for a series of revolutions in Russia in 1917, which dismantled the Tsarist autocracy and led to the creation of the Russian SFSR. VARIOUS

PFH2562495 Russia/USSR: Soviet actor Vasili Nikandrov as V. I. Lenin in Sergei Eisenstein's 'October', 1927; (add.info.: October -Ten Days That Shook the World' is a 1928 Soviet silent propaganda film by Sergei Eisenstein and Grigori Aleksandrov. It is a celebratory dramatization of the 1917 October Revolution commissioned for the tenth anniversary of the event. Originally released as October in the Soviet Union, the film was re-edited and released internationally as Ten Days That Shook The World, after John Reed's popular book on the Revolution.); Pictures from History/Woodbury & Page; out of copyright

Mandatory Credit: Photo by CCI/REX/Shutterstock (6044417cl) The full power! The Russian cruiser Aurora which played an important part in the October Revolution, October 25, 1917. Postcard, USSR, c. 1955 Art (Posters) - various

Mandatory Credit: Photo by Universal History Archive/UIG/REX/Shutterstock (4428356a) Alexander Kerensky holds a meeting with military aides at the Kremlin, Moscow, 1917. VARIOUS

DGA624261 Blitz of sailors of cruiser Aurora, October 1917, Russian Revolution, Russia, 20th century; (add.info.: Blitz of the sailors of the cruiser Aurora, October 1917. Russian Revolution, Russia, 20th century.); De Agostini Picture Library / G. Dagli Orti; out of copyright

Mandatory Credit: Photo by Universal History Archive/UIG/REX/Shutterstock (4425766a) Days of revolution, barricades on the Liteinyi Prospect, Petrograd. People stand in front of the barricade on the streets of Saint Petrograd. The Russian Revolution is the collective term for a series of revolutions in Russia in 1917, which dismantled the Tsarist autocracy and led to the creation of the Russian SFSR. VARIOUS

Mandatory Credit: Photo by Universal History Archive/REX/Shutterstock (3864833a) Russian Revolution, October 1917. The storming of the Winter Palace, St Petersburg (Petrograd/Leningrad). VARIOUS