The Brain of Soviet Russia
The Brain of Soviet Russia

The Brain of Soviet Russia

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1919
0h 14m
5.9(5 votes)
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Overview

This film shows the leaders of organizations that emerged after the Russian Revolution. It is the fragment of ‘Anniversary of the Revolution’ made by Vertov in 1918.

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Владимир Ленин

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Владимир Ленин
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Leon Trotsky

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Leon Trotsky
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Владимир Бонч-Бруевич

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Yakov Sverdlov

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Jukums Vācietis

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Анатолий Луначарский

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Анатолий Луначарский
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Georgi Chicherin

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Lev M. Karakhan

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Yuri Steklov

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Karl Radek

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Semen Sereda

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Pēteris Stučka

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Alexander Tsiurupa

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Alexei Rykov

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Alexei Rykov
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Alexander Shliapnikov

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Lev Kamenev

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Lev Kamenev
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Vadim Podbelsky

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Christian Rakovsky

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Leonid Krasin

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Aleksey Rogov

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Vladimir Zalezhskiy

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Pavlovsky-Pavlovich

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Lev Sosnovsky

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Aleksandr Shlikhter

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Prosh Proshian

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Mikhail Vladimirskiy

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Vasiliy Schmidt

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Demyan Bedny

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Mikhail Tomsky

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Apollon Karelin

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Ephraim Sklyansky

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Nikolai Podvoisky

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Nikolai Rattel

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Nikolai Muralov

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Aleksey Shtrodakh

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Jānis Pieče

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Jānis Bērziņš

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