About the struggle of the red Army and the revolutionary workers of Petrograd against the white guards in 1919....

A film based on the life of the Russian scientist, Klement Timiriazev, who taught at Cambridge and Oxford and was awarded the Newton Mantle for his work. Timiriazev, one of the few outstanding Russian scientists who (publically) backed the Soviets in their revolutionary campaign, was later elected a delegate to the Leningrad Soviet by the sailors of the Baltic fleet. There he denounced his fellow scientists for failing to aid the Soviets and predicted that such aid would come.

In 1929, the Chinese are preparing an attack on the CER, recruiting soldiers to their gang. Among them there is a resident of a lodging house Van. Having recovered after a sudden attack on a Soviet border village, the Red Army squad goes on the offensive. Wang is among the prisoners. Wang and another prisoner go on the run. But on the road between the fugitives there is a conflict and young Chinese Wang begins to realize who his true enemy is...

During the 1920s, many impoverished Jews searching for a better life made their way to Birobidzhan, the Soviet Jewish Autonomous Region on the Chinese border. This melodrama tells the story of a Jewish family's immigration to Birobidzhan and their experiences as settlers on a collective farm in the area.

Two young boys strive to save the life of an officer trapped by the White Russians. Their efforts are both comic and dramatic

1920年代，苏联逐渐从革命和内战中恢复过来，但全国共有近4百万流浪青少年徘徊街头，给社会治安带来很大影响。于是契卡决定在各地建立专门学校，改造这些流浪儿童，帮助他们重新融入社会。彼得格勒的“陀思妥耶夫斯基公社学校”（“陀校”）就是一所这样的机构。然而被送进来的学生却都负隅顽抗，在学校制造各种事端。校长维克托·尼古拉耶维奇·索罗金（“维尼索”）却决定不和他们硬碰硬，而是顺势而为，春风化雨。于是，学员们成立了“陀校共和国”，准备放手大干一场……