Cracow Remembers Lenin 1979, 1979

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Film about Lenin's time in Cracow, Poland. Film puts Lenin's visit in its historical context. Discusses his activities and feelings about the place and his surveillance by the secret police and the...

Film about Lenin's time in Cracow, Poland. Film puts Lenin's visit in its historical context. Discusses his activities and feelings about the place and his surveillance by the secret police and the discovery of his archive and manuscripts. Moving footage: April 4th, 1912, Lena gold fields strike, workers walk out. Still: massacred workers. Still: 1912 Duma session. Still: Bolshevik meeting in Cracow. Still: 1914 Party Congress in Vienna. Also includes footage of people learning of the First World War and infantry going off to war. Footage from the USSR Central State Archives and the Archives of the Polish People's Republic.

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