Bolshevik Collection

Izvestia announcing the abdication of Tsar Nicholas II
Izvestia Newspaper announcing the abdication of Tsar Nicholas II - March, 1917. Date: 1917

Leon Trotsky in Mexico
The Bolshevik leader finds refuge in Mexico. Leon Trotsky pictured here with his wife on the left of the photograph and Senora Rivera (Frida Kahlo), wife of artist Diego Rivera

Russian Propaganda Poster
A Russian Propaganda Poster from the early Bolshevik era, depicting a red army cavalry soldier charging into battle on a fine white steed, sword raised in agressive pose

9th Battalion Hampshire Regiment in Siberia
In Siberia, soldiers of the 9th (Cyclist) Battalion of the Hampshire Regiment instruct American officers in the British method of physical training

Anastasia Bitsenko going to Brest-Litovsk peace meeting
Anastasia Bitsenko (also spelt Biecenko and Bizenko)

Sergei Kirov, Fedor Raskolnikov and Sergo Ordzhonikidze
Sergey Mironovich Kirov (1886-1934), Russian Revolutionary leader (centre), with fellow-Bolshevik, Fedor Raskolnikov (1892-1939) (left) and the Georgian Bolshevik

Cruiser Aurora
The cruiser Aurora, lying at St Petersburg, whose guns gave the signal for the Bolshevik attack on the Winter Palace

Eye-wash. Ramsay Macdonald flirts with bolshevism. Labour: it looks very small and blurred. The Prime Oculist: Ah, what you want is some of this patent lotion of mine [Soviet Treaty lotion]

On the loan trail. Cartoon: A vote for Ramsay Macdonald's Labour party is a vote for bolshevism

Worlds First Woman Ambassador, Alexandra Kolontay
Alexandra Kolontay (or Kollontai), (1872 - 1952), Marxist revolutionary, first as a member of the Mensheviks, then from 1915 on as a Bolshevik (later Communist)

Revolution victims during period of anarchy, Russia
Revolution victims during a period of Bolshevik-led anarchy in Russia, with crosses to mark their place of burial. Date: circa 1917

Group of Red Army soldiers
A group of Red Army soldiers, some sitting on a wooden cart, crowd around to catch up on news during the Civil War. Date: 1918

Leon Trotsky, Bolshevik revolutionary and Marxist theorist
Leon Trotsky (Lev Davidovich Bronstein, 1879-1940), Bolshevik revolutionary and Marxist theorist, one of the leaders, with Lenin, of the Russian October Revolution of 1917

Anastas Ivanovich Mikoyan with Ernesto Che Guevara
Anastas Ivanovich Mikoyan (1895-1978), Armenian Old Bolshevik and Soviet politician under Stalin and Khrushchev. He made key trips as an international diplomat to Communist Cuba and to the USA

Anastas Ivanovich Mikoyan, Russian Soviet politician
Anastas Ivanovich Mikoyan (1895-1978), Armenian Old Bolshevik and Soviet politician under Stalin and Khrushchev. He made key trips as an international diplomat to Communist Cuba and to the USA

PLAQUE FOR RED VICTIMS
A plaque honouring those who gave their lives for the Bolshevik revolution is placed on the wall of the Kremlin, Moscow. Date: 7 November 1918

BOLSHEVIK ATROCITIES
Bolshevik atrocities in Latvia: corpses litter the street Date: 1919

Russian men in US Army coats, Omaha, Nebraska, USA
Group photo of eleven Russian men (described as Bolsheviks) in US Army long coats, at Fort Omaha, Nebraska, USA, on 27 December 1918

Russo-German Negotiations at Brest-Litovsk 1918
Double page from The Illustrated London News, 12th January 1918, with photographs of the Bolshevist minister in London Maxim Litvinoff, Lenin

LENIN AT PETROGRAD 1917
Lenin, just arrived from Finland, addresses the Central Committee of the Bolshevik Party at Petrograd, calling for an armed uprising. Stalin is also present. Date: 23 October 1917

Nevsky Prospekt, St. Petersburg, Russia - Avenue 25 October
Nevsky Prospekt in St. Petersburg, Russia

Lenins Statue. Kerch. Ukraine
Ukraine. Autonomous Republic of Crimea. Kerch. Vladimir Lenin (1870-1924). Russian revolutionary and politician. Statue

Lenins Statue. Feodosiya. Crimea
Ukraine. Autonomous Republic of Crimea. Feodosiya. Vladimir Lenin (1870-1924). Russian revolutionary and politician. Statue

Machine gun used by Bolsheviks during Revolution, Russia
Machine gun mounted on wheels, used by the Bolsheviks during the Revolutionary period in Russia. Date: circa 1917

Sphere cover - Cessation of fighting on Russian Front, WW1
Front cover of The Sphere with illustration by Fortunino Matania showing the cessation of fighting on the Russian Front with Bolshevik leaders Trotsky

Leon Trotsky
Portrait of the Bolshevik revolutionary Leon Trotsky (1879-1940) Date: 16th October 1920

HMS Caradoc, British light cruiser, Reval, post-WW1
HMS Caradoc, British Caledon group C-class light cruiser, launched 1916, part of the Grand Fleet during the latter part of the First World War

Trench warfare WWI
During a lull in the Bolshevik artillery, German Grenadiers attack along a funnel in the trenches

Petrograd, Russia - February Revolution, 8th-15th March 1917
A very important (and very rare)

Vladimir Lenin (1870-1924). Statue. Backlighting
Ukraine. Autonomous Republic of Crimea. Feodosiya. Vladimir Lenin (1870-1924). Russian revolutionary and politician. Statue. Backlighting

Signed Treaty Document
The signed document agreeing an armistice between the Central Powers and Bolshevik Russia Date: January 1918

1920 / Russia / Rural Unrest
A small and slightly wistful Bolshevik demonstration in rural Russia... a distant echo of the grand parades in the streets of Moscow ! Date: circa 1920

People indifferent to looting from a shop, Russia
People showing indifference to looting from a shop during the Revolutionary period in Russia

Bolshevik parade in a street during Revolution, Russia
Bolshevik parade in a street during the Revolutionary period in Russia. Date: circa 1917

Bolshevik activists in the street during Revolution, Russia
Bolshevik activists speaking to members of the public in the street during the Revolutionary period in Russia, said to be on 16 July 1917. Date: circa 1917

Ladies working in a Russian soldiers home under Bolsheviks
Those who suffer under the revolutionary regime - Russian ladies earning their living as cleaners I a home for soldiers

Bela Kun in 1919
BELA KUN Hungarian radical statesman, Bolshevik, founder of Hungarian communist party. None of which saved him from being liquidated by Stalin. Date: 1886 - 1937

Bolshevik prisoner at Izmit, Turkey Date: circa 1920s

Revolutionaries - Petrograd, Russia 1917
Russian Revolutionaries (Soldiers and Sailors) in Petrograd (St Petersburg) in 1917. Date: 1917

Russians waiting for food - Revolution of 1917
Starving Russians in Petrograd (St Petersburg) waiting for food to be thrown down to them from a (possibly foreign) ship - Revolution of 1917. Date: 1917

Red Army distributing Moscow newspapers after invasion of Po
Russian soldiers engaged in feeding the liberated Polish population with a plentiful supply of Bolshevik propaganda. The soldiers here are distributing Moscow newspapers to peasants near Vilna

Allied Intervention in Vladivostock - Russian Civil War
In the wake of the Bolshevik Revolution, the port of Vladivostok in far eastern Russia was of great military importance for the Far Eastern Republic, the Provisional Priamurye Government

Bolshevik prisoners, Lijma Station, Russian Civil War
Bolshevik prisoners standing by the railway track at Lijma Station, near Lake Onega, Medevja-Gora (Medvedja-gora, Medvezhya Gora, now known as Medvezhyegorsk, Republic of Karelia)

General Denikins forces attacking Bolsheviks, Russia
General Denikins forces attacking Bolsheviks. Anton Ivanovich Denikin (1872-1947) served in the Imperial Russian Army during the First World War and in the Russian Civil War. Date: circa 1917-1919

Soviet Russian political cartoon
A Soviet Russian political cartoon containing a satirical image of the late Tsar Nicholas II (top right) and the anti-Bolshevik general Pyotr Wrangel (middle right)

Bolshevik soldiers WWI
Different types of Bolshevik soldiers during World War I

Russian captives WWII
Captured Bolshevik soldiers in Finland are allowed regular and valued devotional hours that were regularly prohibited because of atheist policies within the Soviet regime

They ve Evidently Seem Me by Bruce Bairnsfather
A later version of a " Fragment from France" drawn by the famous World War One cartoonist, Bruce Bairnsfather for the Bystander magazine

British troops in Vladivostock
British troops, from either the 9th Battalion Hampshire Regiment or 25th Battalion Middlesex Regiment, parade in Vladivostock, their first port of call on their way to Omsk, in Siberia

Street Banners
There are banners everywhere to remind the passer-by of the benefits of the Bolshevik regime

War with Russia - 3
When Bolshevik Russia attempts to seize the new republic of Poland, many Warsaw citizens back them : a group of communist volunteers are addressed by their commander

Lenin and Colleagues
Bolshevik leaders in Red Square, Moscow, during the civil war : Sklianski, Muralov, Krylenko and Lenin can be identified

Propaganda Tram 2
To make sure all get the Bolshevik message, every kind of propaganda tool is used - this agitation tram carries the word through city streets

Propaganda Tram
To ensure everyone gets the Bolshevik message, every kind of propaganda tool is used - this agitation tram carries the word through city streets

War with Russia - 4
A parade of volunteers marches through the streets of Warsaw, rousing citizens to volunteer against the bolshevik Red Army which threatens to take their city

War with Russia - 2
Bolshevik Russia attempts to seize the new republic of Poland, but the Poles fight for their independence with patriotic fervour : Russian prisoners and their captors

Bolshevik Cell
Bolshevik cells (small local committees) are formed through out Russia to ensure everyone toes the party line, however distant from Moscow. This one is in Penzensky province

War with Russia - 1
When Bolshevik Russia attempts to seize Poland, the Poles fight for their independence with patriotic fervour : Polish cavalry in the streets of Warsaw

Lenin Speaks
VLADIMIR LENIN speaks to an audience of workers and servicemen, persuading them that the Bolshevik way is the way to go

1919 / TSAR, POPE & BOYAR
The workers oppressed by Tsar, Pope, and Boyar (bourgeois) - but now the Bolsheviks will put a stop to oppression

Red Guards Armed
On the eve of the Bolshevik revolution, Red Guards arm themselves with whatever weapons they can lay hands on and pose for a group photo looking ever so determined

Moscow Barricades
Barricades in Arbat Square, Moscow, testify that there is continued resistance to the Bolshevik take-over

Demo at Turkmenia
The residents of Turkmenia demonstrate in favour of the Bolshevik revolution

Bolshevik Demo Petrograd
A Bolshevik demonstration processes along the Nevski Prospekt at Petrograd (St Petersburg as was and as will again be.)

Winter Palace Occupied
Bolsheviks encamped in the Winter Palace in Petrograd

Anti-Bolshevik Czechs
Anti-Bolshevik Czech troops under the command of Alexander Kerensky requisition horses to fight Leninist forces in Siberia

Russia / 1917 / Factory
Workers take over the running of a factory

Poster; Transport
komsomol Members, Fight for the Bolshevik Reconstruction of Transport !

Poster; Shock Sowing
komsomol Members, be in the Front Ranks of the Bolshevik Shock Sowing !

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