Communistic Celebratings
Over a million demonstrators gather for a parade organised by Trotsky to show peacefully-minded Soviet forces are prepared to defend what has been achieved, 1917
Russian Marxist theorist and Jewish revolutionary Leon Trotsky attends a parade in Red Square, Moscow, as Lenin reviews his troops , 1918
Disabled soldiers on parade during the Communists Red Week in Red Square. The banner reads “Marching From October to the Next, We Shall Reach the World's October”, 1924
Russian children waving flags during May Day celebrations in Red Square, Moscow, 1924
A display by more than 40,000 young people, belonging to various athletic clubs of the USSR republics, in Red Square, Moscow.
Members of the “Locomotive” sports club are parading in star formation, 1937
A Russian Intercontinental Missile crossing Red Square during the military parade in Moscow marking the 20th Anniversary of the end of the war in Europe, 1965
Cuban revolutionary Fidel Castro with Soviet premier Nikita Khrushchev at the Lenin Mausoleum in Red Square, Moscow, 1964
Chinese leader Mao Tse-tung, accompanied by his second-in-command Lin Biao, passes along the ranks of revolutionaries during a rally in Tiananmen Square, Peking, 1966
A parade of young Russian sportsmen during the Mayday celebrations in Red Square, Moscow. This years event did not contain any display of weaponry, 1969
Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev and fellow Politburo members, left to right, Nikolai V. Podgorny, Brezhnev, Alexei N. Kosygin, Mikhail A. Suslov, and others watching the Bolshevik anniversary parade in Red Square, Moscow, as the snow falls on Lenin's tomb
Pro-Vietnam/anti US posters on display during a May Day parade in Moscow, 1970
Missiles passing a poster of Lenin in Red Square, Moscow, during the 61st Anniversary of the Russian Revolution celebrations, 1978
Heavy artillery on parade during a review of the Moscow Garrison troops during the May Day celebrations in Red Square, passing posters of Lenin and Stalin, 1947
A communist May Day parade outside the parliament buildings, Vienna, 1st May 1950. On the right is a large portrait of Soviet leader Joseph Stalin.