The aftermath of the February Revolution

Stunning colour footage of the February Revolution (as well as some re-enactment)

Lenin's return to Russia April 1917

Another Fall of Eagles clip, this one depicting Lenin's plans for return to Russia.
Click HERE. He's not as nomadic these days of course...

I've sent some handouts on Russia in WWI to your email accounts to help with your homework.

Lenin's first meeting with Trotsky caught on camera?

Fall of Eagles was a 1970s British TV drama about the fall of the Romanov, Habsburg and Hohenzollern monarchies in 1917. If only today's historical TV drama were so well researched, scripted and acted. Fall of Eagles, for all its faults has got to be preferable to the laughable dialogue, unrealistically chummy class relations and upper-class nostalgia of Downton Abbey. Don't get me started on Downton.

Anyway, here is a clip depicting the first meeting of Lenin and Trotsky. Yes, it's dated and over-theatrical and not necessarily accurate, but it rings true given the recorded debates and disputes between the men later on (Lenin - Bolshevik and Trotsky - Menshevik).  It's also got that chap from X Men and that one from Foyle's War in it. I like the way one can see the fanaticism and vanity in these characters that would later take both men to revolution and horrific crimes against humanity all in the name of perfecting society.