Bolsheviks Collection

Nestor Makhno
Anarchist leader who organised partisan groups to form the Revolutionary Insurrectionary Army of Ukraine which opposed both Bolsheviks and Whites : he will die in exile in Paris. Date: 1919

Tsesarevich Alexei of Russia (1904-1918) seen studying in 1913. Devastatingly for his parents, Alexei suffered from haemophilia

Soviet poster celebrating three years since the Russian Revolution, 1920 (colour litho)
PNP367380 Soviet poster celebrating three years since the Russian Revolution, 1920 (colour litho) by Russian School (20th century); Private Collection; Peter Newark Pictures

Sergei Kirov, Fedor Raskolnikov and Sergo Ordzhonikidze
Sergey Mironovich Kirov (1886-1934), Russian Revolutionary leader (centre), with fellow-Bolshevik, Fedor Raskolnikov (1892-1939) (left) and the Georgian Bolshevik

Russian Refugee Camp at Mudros, Greece (Island of Lemnos), housing Russians driven out by the Bolsheviks following the 1917 revolution

Czech troops 1918
Czech troops in battle, skirmishing against the Bolsheviks on the outskirts of Ekaterinburg in 1918

War with Russia - 5
The long-drawn out battle of the Vistula ends in a crushing defeat of the Red Army by the Poles, seen here posing later in the year with guns taken from the bolsheviks

Foch and the Big Four face the Bolshevist Peril (litho)
8636028 Foch and the Big Four face the Bolshevist Peril (litho) by English School, (20th century); Private Collection; (add.info.: Foch and the Big Four face the Bolshevist Peril)

Soviet Budenovka Winter Army Cap, 1920s-1930s (object)
7177609 Soviet Budenovka Winter Army Cap, 1920s-1930s (object); Private Collection; (add.info.: Famous style of Cap worn by the Red Army during the Russian Civil War and later); © Don Troiani

The Land of Freedom (litho)
8663502 The Land of Freedom (litho) by Poy (Percy Hutton Fearon) (1874-1945); Private Collection; (add.info.: The Land of Freedom)

The Truth about Russia (litho)
8673314 The Truth about Russia (litho) by Batho, Harold Outram (1888-1932); Private Collection; (add.info.: The Truth about Russia)

"So There!" (litho)
8663500 "So There!" (litho) by Poy (Percy Hutton Fearon) (1874-1945); Private Collection; (add.info.: "So There)

Mikhail Tomsky, Soviet Russian trade unionist (b/w photo)
8673334 Mikhail Tomsky, Soviet Russian trade unionist (b/w photo) by English Photographer, (20th century); Private Collection; (add.info.: Mikhail Tomsky (1880-1936)

Soviet Budenovka Winter Army Cap, 1920s-1930s (object)
7177608 Soviet Budenovka Winter Army Cap, 1920s-1930s (object); Private Collection; (add.info.: Famous style of Cap worn by the Red Army during the Russian Civil War and later); © Don Troiani

Soviet propaganda poster (colour litho)
PNP368970 Soviet propaganda poster (colour litho) by Russian School (20th century); Private Collection; Peter Newark Historical Pictures

V.I. Lenin in Razliv (litho) (sepia photo)
STC394187 V.I. Lenin in Razliv (litho) (sepia photo) by Russian School (20th century); Private Collection; (add.info.: Vladimir Ilyich Lenin (1870-1924)

Lenin's arrival in Petrograd, April 1917 (litho) (sepia photo)
STC394178 Lenin's arrival in Petrograd, April 1917 (litho) (sepia photo) by Russian School (20th century); Private Collection; (add.info.: Vladimir Ilyich Lenin (1870-1924)

The Dead of the Paris Commune have Risen again under the Red Flag of the Soviets, c.1920 (colour litho)
PNP370966 The Dead of the Paris Commune have Risen again under the Red Flag of the Soviets, c.1920 (colour litho) by Russian School (20th century); Private Collection; Peter Newark Pictures

Poster depicting a Red Army soldier and regimental badges (colour litho)
PNP368963 Poster depicting a Red Army soldier and regimental badges (colour litho) by Russian School (20th century); Private Collection; Peter Newark Military Pictures

Dmitrij MOOR (Dmitrij Stachievic Orlov 3 November 1883 24 October 1946) the flagbearer waves the red banner
6203073 Dmitrij MOOR (Dmitrij Stachievic Orlov 3 November 1883 24 October 1946) the flagbearer waves the red banner, which stands out against the sun of the future; soldiers

Stalin making a speech in the 1930s (colour litho)
PNP368947 Stalin making a speech in the 1930s (colour litho) by Russian School (20th century); Private Collection; (add.info)

Bolshevik poster with the slogan Petrograd, No Surrender, 1917 (colour litho)
PNP368940 Bolshevik poster with the slogan Petrograd, No Surrender, 1917 (colour litho) by Moor, Dmitry (Dmitry Stakhievich Orlov) (1883-1946); Private Collection; Peter Newark Military Pictures

Stalin receives the wives of technologists and engineers in Moscow, 1936 (colour litho)
PNP368949 Stalin receives the wives of technologists and engineers in Moscow, 1936 (colour litho) by Russian School (20th century); Private Collection; (add.info)

Soviet propaganda poster (colour litho)
PNP368966 Soviet propaganda poster (colour litho) by Russian School (20th century); Private Collection; Peter Newark Historical Pictures

Soviet poster featuring Lenin (colour litho)
PNP368956 Soviet poster featuring Lenin (colour litho) by Russian School (20th century); Private Collection; (add.info.: Vladimir Lenin (1870-1924)

Identity card used by Lenin, in the name of worker Konstantin Ivanov, to evade police in 1917 (b/w photo)
PNP380454 Identity card used by Lenin, in the name of worker Konstantin Ivanov, to evade police in 1917 (b/w photo, pen & ink and print) by Russian School (20th century)

Greetings card featuring a portrait of Lenin (colour litho)
PNP368954 Greetings card featuring a portrait of Lenin (colour litho) by Russian School (20th century); Private Collection; (add.info)

Poster issued by the revolutionaries in St. Petersburg, 1905, from "The Russian Revolutionary Poster" by V
XND76070 Poster issued by the revolutionaries in St. Petersburg, 1905, from "The Russian Revolutionary Poster" by V

Poster promoting child care amenities to enable mothers to work in the factories, 1928 (colour litho)
PNP368972 Poster promoting child care amenities to enable mothers to work in the factories, 1928 (colour litho) by Russian School (20th century); Private Collection; Peter Newark Pictures

Bolshevik cartoon on the intervention of the USA, Britain and France in the Russian Civil War, 1919 (colour litho)
PNP370964 Bolshevik cartoon on the intervention of the USA, Britain and France in the Russian Civil War, 1919 (colour litho) by Russian School (20th century); Private Collection; (add.info)

Bolshevik poster depicting Lenin sweeping away emperors, clergy and capitalists, 1917 (colour litho)
PNP367395 Bolshevik poster depicting Lenin sweeping away emperors, clergy and capitalists, 1917 (colour litho) by Russian School (20th century); Private Collection; (add.info)

Lenin (Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov said, 1870-1924) in 1919 during the celebration of the second anniversary of the Great
LSE4317968 Lenin (Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov said, 1870-1924) in 1919 during the celebration of the second anniversary of the Great Socialist Revolution of October 1917, Red Square, Moscow

Group of Red Army soldiers
A group of Red Army soldiers, some sitting on a wooden cart, crowd around to catch up on news during the Civil War. Date: 1918

FRENCH HANG BOLSHEVIKS
Like other occupying forces the French treat the Bolsheviks with ruthless severity : two workers sympathetic to the Bolsheviks are hanged at Odessa. Date: 1918

Stalin when part of the Bolshevik underground, 1900 (b/w photo)
2920783 Stalin when part of the Bolshevik underground, 1900 (b/w photo) by Russian Photographer, (20th century); Private Collection; (add.info)

The only session of the All-Russian Constituent Assembly held in Petrograd on 18th January 1918 (colour litho)
CHT258696 The only session of the All-Russian Constituent Assembly held in Petrograd on 18th January 1918 (colour litho) by Zvorykin

Revolutionary Demonstration in February 1917 (oil on canvas)
FIA5359104 Revolutionary Demonstration in February 1917 (oil on canvas) by Nilus, Peter Alexandrovich (1869-1943); State Art Gallery, Odessa, Ukraine; (add.info.: Episode of the Bolshevik revolution)

Communism in Switzerland, c. 1930 (poster)
7293222 Communism in Switzerland, c.1930 (poster) by Mangold, Burkhard (1873-1950); (add.info.: History. Switzerland. " Under the Liberalism, Bolchevism." Political poster Switzerland)

Bolshevic Demonstration During the Russian Revolution, Petrograd, 1917 (b/w photo)
1701626 Bolshevic Demonstration During the Russian Revolution, Petrograd, 1917 (b/w photo) by Russian Photographer, (20th century); (add.info)

The 27th of February 1917, 1917 (painting)
885301 The 27th of February 1917, 1917 (painting) by Kustodiev, Boris Mikhailovich (1878-1927); Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow, Russia; (add.info.: by Boris Mikhaelovitch Kustodiev (1878-1927))

Portrait of Stalin, 1933 (painting)
FIA5359689 Portrait of Stalin, 1933 (painting) by Brodsky, Isaak Israilevich (1883-1939); State Museum and Exhibition Centre ROSIZO

October Hurricane Poster, 1920 (colour litho)
BAL464788 October Hurricane Poster, 1920 (colour litho) by Deni, Viktor Nikolaevich (1893-1946); Private Collection

Petrograd, Russia, during the February Revolution, 1917 (litho)
7200805 Petrograd, Russia, during the February Revolution, 1917 (litho) by Vladimirov, Ivan Alexeyevich (1869-1947) (after); Private Collection; (add.info.: Petrograd, Russia)

V. I. Ulyanov, Moscow, 1900 (b / w photo)
PNP380459 V. I. Ulyanov, Moscow, 1900 (b/w photo) by Mebiysa, J (fl. 1900); Private Collection; (add.info.: Vladimir Ilyich Lenin)

French squadron during the Kronstadt Rebellion, Russia, 1921 (b / w photo)
7200478 French squadron during the Kronstadt Rebellion, Russia, 1921 (b/w photo) by Brichaut, Albert (died c 1901); Private Collection; (add.info)

USSR Agriculture: "Come, comrades, and join our collective farms!"1930 (poster)
6203464 USSR Agriculture: " Come, comrades, and join our collective farms!" 1930 (poster) by Korablyova, Vera (1887 - 1950); (add.info.: USSR Agriculture: " Come, comrades)

The Staff of the October Revolution of 1917, 1934 (oil on canvas)
BAL266199 The Staff of the October Revolution of 1917, 1934 (oil on canvas) by Svarog, Vasily Semyonovich (1883-1946); 131x181 cm; State Museum and Exhibition Centre ROSIZO, Moscow; Russian

Meeting of the Central Committee of the Bolshevik Party, 23rd October 1917 (litho)
STC400596 Meeting of the Central Committee of the Bolshevik Party, 23rd October 1917 (litho) by Lupov (20th century) (attr)

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"Bolsheviks: A Revolutionary Force Shaping History" The Bolsheviks, led by the charismatic Vladimir Lenin, were a radical political faction that played a pivotal role in the Russian Revolution of 1917. Nestor Makhno, an anarchist leader from Ukraine, challenged their authority with his own vision of social revolution. Meanwhile, Tsesarevich Alexei of Russia found himself caught up in the turmoil as the last heir to the Romanov dynasty. His tragic fate mirrored the chaos and uncertainty gripping the nation. Within their ranks emerged influential figures like Sergei Kirov, Fedor Raskolnikov, and Sergo Ordzhonikidze. These individuals wielded power and influence during this tumultuous period. The Russian Refugee Camp at Mudros in Greece became a temporary home for those fleeing war-torn Russia. Here they sought solace amidst uncertain times while dreaming of returning to their homeland one day. Czech troops arrived on Russian soil in 1918 as part of an international intervention against the Bolshevik regime. Their presence further escalated tensions and added another layer to an already complex conflict. War with Russia continued unabated as various factions vied for control over its vast territories. Admiral Kolchak emerged as a prominent anti-Bolshevik figurehead during this time, leading forces against Lenin's Red Army. Amidst all this upheaval, funeral crowds flooded streets across Russia during moments of revolution. The somber scenes captured both grief for lost lives and hope for a brighter future free from oppression. A group of Red Army soldiers stood united under the banner of Bolshevism - dedicated to implementing Lenin's revolutionary ideals across Soviet territory. In France, opposition towards Bolshevism ran deep; sentiments echoed through headlines proclaiming "FRENCH HANG BOLSHEVIKS. " This reflected broader international concerns about communism's spread beyond Russian borders.