Living in Lenin's Russia (French English bilingual)

1917. The chaos into which the war plunged Russia tsarist led to a first revolution in February, then a second in October, when Lenin’s Bolsheviks came to power. The economy is devastated. For months already, while the factories have been closing one after the other, the soldiers have been deserting and ravaging the countryside, which, subjected to disorderly requisitions, soon ceases to supply the towns. Faced with hunger, cold, cholera, typhus and civil war, the country is defending itself by all means, in a mixture of distress and hope. Travelers fleeing starving cities, dying of cold in overcrowded trains, bands of wandering orphan children, deprived of all help, inefficient and corrupt bureaucracy... But also young communists, writers, artists dreaming of building a new world. Between the two, the mass of peasants, also threatened by a terrible famine which can even reduce them to cannibalism. The story of the daily life of the population, during the seven terrible years during which, for the first time, a State tried to overthrow capitalism and to light the fuse of the world revolution.