12th Party Congress
Abstract intertitles throughout. Good group shot senior Communist Party members inc. Leon Trotsky no Lenin. Vars further scenes of formal meetings, group discussions & personalities inc. good CUs Molotov, Voroshilov, Kalinin. Delegations inc. Urals & Eastern Russia. Stalin present but no CUs.
12:06:47 Lenin & group pose for camera outside - waving hats. High angle INT Congress delegates looking up at camera, clapping & laughing - Stalin in centre. Further shots Congress under way - packed hall.
12:08:04 Trotsky making speech at podium. Title ‘Hopes of worldwide bourgeoisie fell through but wonderful anticipation of Lenin came true’. Zinoviev speech.
Russia / USSR. 1920s.
12th Party Congress Abstract intertitles throughout. Good group shot senior Communist Party members inc. Leon Trotsky no Lenin. Vars further scenes of formal meetings, group discussions & personalities inc. good CUs Molotov, Voroshilov, Kalinin. Delegations inc. Urals & Eastern Russia. Stalin present but no CUs. 12:06:47 Lenin & group pose for camera outside - waving hats. High angle INT Congress delegates looking up at camera, clapping & laughing - Stalin in centre. Further shots Congress under way - packed hall. 12:08:04 Trotsky making speech at podium. Title ‘Hopes of worldwide bourgeoisie fell through but wonderful anticipation of Lenin came true’. Zinoviev speech. Russia / USSR. 1920s.