Commissioned by Josef Stalin to commemorate the 20th anniversary of the Soviet Revolution, Lenin in October was the first of Russian director Mikhail Romm's tributes to the Marxist visionary who helped orchestrate the insurrection of October, 1917.
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Boris ShchukinVladimir Ilich Lenin
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Nikolai OkhlopkovVasily
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Vasili VaninFactory Foreman Matveyev
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Nikolai ArskyBlinov, worker (as N. Arsky)
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Nikolai ChaplyginKirilin
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Vladimir VladislavskiyKarnayukhov (as V. Vladislavsky)
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Semyon GoldshtabJosef Stalin
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Nikolai SvobodinRutkovsky, the Social Revolutionary
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Vadim GanshinZhukov, the Menshevik
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Yelena ShatrovaAnna Mikhailovna
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Aleksandr KovalevskyAleksandr Feodorovich Kerenski
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Nikolai SokolovMikhail Vladimir Rodzyanko
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Klavdiya KorobovaNatasha, Vasily's wife (as K. Korobova)
