Anniversary of the Revolution (1918)
A chronicle of the Russian Revolution of 1917, from the bourgeois democratic February Revolution to the great socialist October Revolution and the final triumph.
Top billed cast
Vladimir PurishkevichSelf - Politician- Alexander KerenskySelf - Politician
- Mikhail RodziankoSelf - Politician
- Alexander GuchkovSelf - Politician
- Nikolai V. NekrasovSelf - Politician
- Mikhail StakhovichSelf - Politician
- Ivan N. EfremovSelf - Politician
- G. A. YakubovichSelf - Politician
- Andrei ManuilovSelf - Politician
- Nikolai ChkheidzeSelf - Politician
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