It is a little music and video for inspiration.

[cuprum]

Alas, in the post-Soviet Russia this novel was not filmed. In the USSR, a two-part TV-version play on this novel was made in 1967.

[carlos marighela]

Many thanks!

[cuprum]

An excellent Soviet feature film: "Its among strangers - a stranger among their own."

The action of this psychological detective occurs in the 20s in a small provincial town in the south of Russia. The civil war is over, but the peace has not yet come. Hunger, destruction, many criminal gangs. The bandits robbed a Soviet train with gold intended for buying bread for the starving regions of the country. Suspicion fell on one of five friends, former brother-soldiers of the Red Army. Now in order to return his good name, he must return the stolen gold...

To view it, go to Youtube. Do not forget to include English subtitles.

[cuprum]

Episode from the movie. The capture of the white armored train by red partisans and subsequent fighting in Vladivostok.

[cuprum]

The Transcaspian front. Red rebels fight against the Whites. Pay attention to the Turkmen military units Whites.

[cuprum]

Song: "Russian Brothers"
Performer group "Babkiny vnuky"
Stills from the film "Russian brothers"

[cuprum]

1918. "Ice March". An attack by an officer’s company, bypassing, to the rear of the Bolsheviks, with the aim of seizing, at the railway station, wagons with artillery shells.



The officer company is sent to the counter-attack:

[Patrice]

Very interesting!

The officer company is sent to the counter-attack:

Is that a wooden well the officer is standing on at the end of video? 

[cuprum]

Yes, it is a well. It is usually closed so that it does not blow dust and debris.

An interesting point in the first video - salvo shooting at the machine gun. The machine gun crews were apparently put out of action by the very first volley and this made the Bolsheviks retreat.

The training and experience of the officer units was the highest. The company in the second episode is commanded by a general(!). In the initial period of the war, undisiplined detachments of the Bolsheviks were easily destroyed by the officer detachments, despite the overwhelming superiority of the Bolsheviks in numbers.

[cuprum]

A few more episodes from the same movie. The colonel of the tsarist army signs up as a volunteer to the Bolsheviks and, at the first opportunity, goes over to the side of the white army. He will be enrolled as a private in an officer company.

[cuprum]

Comrade from the Staes   

[sepoy1857]

Новосиль 1919 - 2019
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A6iHl440YRk&feature=youtu.be
Реконструкция событий Гражданской войны в России,
Орловско-Кромское сражение осени 1919 года, бои под Новосилем (объединение клубов военно-исторической реконструкции "Первопоходник") оператор: Святослав Свеженцев. музыка: Филипп Вейс, монтаж Игорь Свеженцев

[cuprum]

The attack of the red Siberian partisans on the White Guard garrison of the village. The first group of partisans burst into the village under the guise of a wedding procession. A scene from the feature film "Siberian Grandfather":

[cuprum]

If you are familiar with the books by Ilya Ilf and Evgeny Petrov "The Twelve Chairs" and "The Little Golden Calf" about the adventures of the great swindler Ostap Bender in Soviet Russia during the NEP, then you will probably be interested to watch the prequel to this story. The feature film "Bender - the Beginning" was released in Russia.
The film tells about Ibrahim Bender, a born savvy swindler who will also act as a mentor to the famous Ostap Zadunaisky (the future Ostap Bender, whose adoptive father and teacher was the swindler Ibrahim Bender), who has yet to become a great schemer, having learned all the tricks, tricks and business the grasp of his adoptive father.
   The main target of the two swindlers is the treasure of the Russian Empire - a golden rod with diamonds, which they are going to steal. The action takes place during the Civil War in Russia. Obstacles on the way of the two great swindlers are both white and red and just bandits.

[Golgotha]

Thanks Cuprum, as always, it's like Back and Beyond meets Pulp.

The bonus being some of the interesting uniforms on show...

Please keep these videos coming.