Recollections about Lenin

Sixtieth anniversary film documenting key events in Lenin's life with many stills of important figures of the time. The film features the following; still of Lenin and Zinoviev in Razliv. Orjonikidze in Finland, Arthur Ransome. The Menshevik Feodor Dan. Count Mirabach. Split in leadership. Trotsky speaking to troops from car. John Reed at desk. 1919 Moscow food queues, Uritsky death and funeral. Stills of Bukharin, Zegorsky, Sverdlov, Lunarcharsky, Bonch Bruyevitch, Pasternak. 1918, building up Moscow markets. Lenin's 50th Birthday, GOELRO electrification plan, visit of H.G. Wells. Lenin warns about Stalin. Chicherin, Joffe, Bruyevitch, Dzerzhinsky, Lunarcharsky, Martov, Plekhanov, Louise Bryant. Advertisement by America during the 1921 famines. The life and work of V.I. Lenin from 1905 to 1922, paying particular attention to his personal qualities. Impressions of Lenin's personality as suggested by his own personal writings, and his character traits as recalled by his contemporaries. Electrification, attempts on Lenin's life, Lenin's thirst for knowledge and hard work, quotes from people who met him (American and British names), his imprisonment and exile, his policies and beliefs, his time at Gorky, his modesty.