خلاصه داستان : مبارزه چندین ساله مردم شوروی علیه ماشین جنگی آلمان از دیدگاه استالین و از دیدگاه یک سرباز معمولی و دختر محبوبش نشان داده شده است.

Surrounded by a few party officials, Alexei Ivanov, a stakhanovist smelter, is decorated by Stalin. The "Little Father of the Peoples" takes this opportunity to invoke threats of war.... One day, war indeed breaks out. Bombs fall on the field where Alexei finds himself in the company of the schoolmistress Natacha, his fiancée. Alexei joins the Red Army and soon becomes a sergeant. Fighting rages and German troops advance. Natacha is arrested and deported. But the tide turns decisively with the German defeat at Stalingrad. Now the major offensive against Hitler can begin.

خلاصه داستان : فیلم، اتفاقات پتروگراد از پایان سلطنت در فوریه سال 1917 تا پایان حکومت موقت و احکام صلح در نوامبر همان سال را به تصویر می کشد...

Sergei M. Eisenstein's docu-drama about the 1917 October Revolution in Russia. Made ten years after the events and edited in Eisenstein's 'Soviet Montage' style, it re-enacts in celebratory terms several key scenes from the revolution.