Bolshevik Collection (#11)

LEON TROTSKY (1879-1940). Ne Lev Davidovich Bronstein. Russian Communist leader. Photographed in the 1920s

RUSSIA: REVOLUTION OF 1905. Cossacks attacking St. Petersburg sleigh drivers and their barricade of sleighs, 22 January 1905. Contemporary illustration

VLADIMIR LENIN (1870-1924). Vladimir Ilich Ulyanov, known as Lenin. Russian Communist leader. Lenin addressing a crowd in Red Square in Moscow, c1920

LEON TROTSKY (1879-1940). Ne Lev Davidovich Bronstein. Russian Communist leader. Oil over a photograph, n.d

Confidence of Alexander the Great into his physician Philippos, 1870 (oil on canvas)
BAL364937 Confidence of Alexander the Great into his physician Philippos, 1870 (oil on canvas) by Siemiradzki, Hendrik (1843-1902) (after); (add.info)

Bolshevik leaders in front of a procession for the 1st of May, 1920. In the center, one recognizes Grigori Zinoviev with an Astrakhan

WORLD WAR I: PETROGRAD. Barricade on a street in Petrograd (St. Petersburg), Russia. Photograph c1917

RUSSIAN REVOLUTION, 1917. A riot after the Provisional Government opened fire on a Bolshevik demonstration on Nevsky Prospekt in Petrograd, Russia. Photograph by Victor Karlovich Bulla, 5 July 1917

ANTI-BOLSHEVIK CARTOON. The Three Stages. 1916: Under the imperial government, 290 million rubles are printed per month. 1917: Under the interim government, 832 million rubles are printed

ANTI-CAPITALIST CARTOON. It is necessary to bridle the bourgeoise, to get astride and exploit it. (Bukharin). Russian anti-capitalist cartoon with a quote by Russian Communist Nikolai Bukharin, 1918

BOLSHEVIK POSTER. Top: It is time to be in cleanliness and not filth. Washing all the dirty linen. A Bolshevik sweeping away Capitalist leaders of Europe and America. Bolshevik postcard, 1918

BOLSHEVIK POSTER. Poster depicting the golden idol of the Capitalist world surrounded by a peasant army. Bolshevik poster from the Russian Civil War, 1918-20

RUSSIAN CIVIL WAR. Bolshevik poster depicting starving Bolsheviks before White Army guardsmen who are burning their houses and food, from the Russian Civil War, 1918-20

RUSSIAN CIVIL WAR. Revolutionary poster depicting the evils of international counter-revolution and encouraging action on the home front during the Russian Civil War, 1918-20

RED ARMY RECRUITMENT. Red Army recruitment poster depicting the international counter-revolution getting peasants drunk with vodka and enslaving them, stealing from them, and mistreating their wives

KRONSTADT MUTINY, 1921. Soviet troops photographed following their successful suppression of the Kronstadt Mutiny, March 1921

RUSSIAN REVOLUTION OF 1905. Strikers outside of the governments Putiloff Ironworks at St. Petersburg, Russia, January 1905. Illustration from a contemporary English newspaper

COMMUNIST INTERNATIONAL. Cover of The Communist International, 1919, no. 1, Moscow

RUSSIAN REVOLUTION OF 1905. Cossacks attacking St. Petersburg sleigh drivers and their barricade of sleighs, 22 January 1905. Contemporary drawing

RUSSIA: REVOLUTION OF 1917. Pro-Bolshevik soldiers, with red flags fixed to their bayonets, patrolling the streets of Petrograd in March 1917, from a car commandeered from the Provisional Government

WORLD WAR I: ARCHANGEL. Bolshevik prisoners captured by American Troops in Archangel, Russia. Photograph, c1918

WORLD WAR I: ARCHANGEL. American troops belonging to Company 1, 339th Infantry passing in review while in Russia to help put down the Bolshevik uprising, Archangel, Russia. Photograph, October 1918

TREATY OF BREST-LITOVSK. Meeting between Russian and the Central Powers, during the negotiations for the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk, which ended Russias involvement in World War I, 1918. Photograph

TREATY OF BREST-LITOVSK. Allied statesmen in a council meeting, during the negotiations for the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk, which ended Russias involvement in World War I, 1918. Photograph

WORLD WAR I: RUSSIA, C1917. View of a building damaged by bullets and stones thrown by a mob during the Bolshevik Revoluion, Russia. Photograph, c1917

RUSSIA: REVOLUTION OF 1917. The Red Army and Fleet in Defense of the Frontiers of Russia. Russian Revolution poster, 1920

JOSEPH STALIN (1879-1953). Russian Communist leader. Photographed, 1918, at Tsaritsyn

LEON TROTSKY (1879-1940). Ne Lev Davidovich Bronstein. Russian Communist leader. Photographed in 1920

MAXIM GORKI (1868-1936). Russian writer. Photographed c1900

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

Solomon Lozovsky, General Secretary of the Red International Labour Union ( Profintern ) of Trade Unions, who is applying for permission to visit England. 30 January 1925

Nikolay Nikolayevich Krestinsky ( Russia ). 10 August 1922

The bolshevik ship Bolshevik photographed in the Roath dock Cardiff 5 November 1924

A D Zurupa, Vice President of the Council of Peoples Commissaries of the USSR and of the RSFSR. 31 October 1924

Trotskys Successor. Mikhail Frunze, the successor of Trotsky as Soviet Commissar for the Army and Navy. 12 February 1925

Mikhail Pavlovich Tomsky, President of the Central Council of Trade Unions of the USSR. 31 October 1924

Janis Rudzutak, Soviet politician and Peoples Commissary of the Wars of Communication of the USSR 31 October 1924

M Krassin. 4 April 1925

Grigory Zinoviev, President of the Communist International. 31 October 1924

Mikhail Kalinin, the Chairman of the Central Executive Committee of the USSR and RSFSR. 31 October 1924

Chief of Russian State Political Police resigns. Felix Dzerzhinsky, the chief of the Russian State Political Police, who has resigned. 3 January 1925

The Man who Brought about Trotskys downfall. A D Zurupa, Vice President of the Council of Peoples Commissaries of the Union of Soviet Russia

Lenin mausoleum, Red Square, Moscow, c1980. Vladimir Ilyich Lenin (1917-1924) Russian Bolshevik leader. Communist Soviet USSR

Changing of the guard at the Lenin mausoleum, Red Square, Moscow, c1980. Vladimir Ilyich Lenin (1917-1924) Russian Bolshevik leader

Gregory Yevseevich Zinoviev 1883 - 1936) was a Bolshevik revolutionary and a Soviet Communist politician

Bolshevik leaning across map of Europe and setting fire to Bavaria. The Bolshevik is coming Throw him out on Election Day Bavarian Peoples Party poster, 1919

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"Bolshevik: The Revolutionary Spirit that Transcends Time" Step back in time to the year 1967, where a powerful communist poster by Viktor Ivanov captures the essence of the Bolshevik movement. With bold letters proclaiming "Lenin lived, Lenin lives, Lenin will live forever. ", it symbolizes the enduring legacy of Vladimir Ilich Lenin and his revolutionary ideals. Meanwhile, in Mexico, Leon Trotsky stands as a prominent figure within the Bolshevik narrative. A depiction of him slaying the counter-revolutionary dragon in a 1918 poster showcases his unwavering commitment to uprooting opposition and establishing a new order. The Young Communist League emerges as an integral force during Stalin's Five-Year Plan. In a striking Soviet poster from 1931 by Vladimir Lyushin they can hailed as the Shock Battalion driving progress forward with their unwavering dedication. Vladimir Ilich Lenin himself is captured in an iconic photograph taken at Moscow's Kremlin in October 1918. His presence exudes determination and resilience as he leads Russia through tumultuous times towards revolution. Dmitriy Stakhievich Moor's powerful artwork from 1919 boldly proclaims "Death to World Imperialism, " reflecting the Bolsheviks' fierce resistance against oppressive forces seeking world domination. Amidst World War II turmoil, we witness British soldiers from Hampshire Regiment stationed in Siberia - an unlikely alliance formed against common enemies during this turbulent period. Travel back further to 1903 when Vladimir Lenin addresses fellow comrades at the Second Congress of Marxist Russians. This pivotal meeting laid down foundations for what would become one of history's most influential political movements - Bolshevism. An announcement published by Izvestia marks Tsar Nicholas II's abdication - a significant turning point that paved way for Bolshevik aspirations to reshape Russian society according to their vision. In another Soviet poster from 1958 created by Albert Aslyan titled "No.