Bolshevik Collection

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

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

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) in a motor car on the way to the peace negotiations which led to the signing of the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk on 3rd March 1918 between the Central

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

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. In 1918, the new Bolshevik government changed the name of the street to " Avenue of 25 October" (as used, interestingly, on this card)

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

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) real photograph postcard showing National militia firing on a Czarist police position (the police were running along the rooftops according to the eyewitness report)

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. Many shopkeepers used shutters to protect their premises

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

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

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. Scene showing upper class women employed in scrubbing

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

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