In this photo taken in October 1917, provided by Russian State Documentary Film and Photo Archive, Russian State Documentary Film and Photo Archive, armed soldiers carry a banner reading 'Communism' march alone Nikolskaya street towards to the Kremlin Wall in Moscow, Russia. The 1917 Bolshevik Revolution was long before the digital revolution allowed anyone to instantly document events. But the clumsy cameras of the time still caught some images that capture the period's drama. (Photo by Russian State Documentary Film and Photo Archive via AP Photo)





In this photo taken in October 1917, provided by Russian State Documentary Film and Photo Archive, people walk at the damaged Nikolskaya Tower right after the revolution fighting in Moscow, Russia. The 1917 Bolshevik Revolution was long before the digital revolution allowed anyone to instantly document events. But the clumsy cameras of the time still caught some images that capture the period's drama. (Photo by Russian State Documentary Film and Photo Archive via AP Photo)





In this photo taken in October 1917, provided by Russian State Documentary Film and Photo Archive, people line up to get food at Tverskaya Zastava, in Moscow, Russia. The 1917 Bolshevik Revolution was long before the digital revolution allowed anyone to instantly document events. But the clumsy cameras of the time still caught some images that capture the period's drama. (Photo by Russian State Documentary Film and Photo Archive via AP Photo)





In this photo taken in spring-summer of 1917, provided by Russian State Documentary Film and Photo Archive, Russia's deposed Czar Nicholas II, sits on a tree stump, three of the soldiers that held him captive standing in the background in Tsarskoe Selo, the residence of the Russian czar, outside St. Petersburg, Russia. Nicholas, his wife Alexandra and their five children were executed by Bolsheviks in 1918 . The 1917 Bolshevik Revolution was long before the digital revolution allowed anyone to instantly document events. But the clumsy cameras of the time still caught some images that capture the period's drama. (Photo by Russian State Documentary Film and Photo Archive via AP Photo)





In this photo taken in October 1917, provided by Russian State Documentary Film and Photo Archive, a machine gunner looks through a window at his position near the Kremlin in Moscow, Russia. The 1917 Bolshevik Revolution was long before the digital revolution allowed anyone to instantly document events. But the clumsy cameras of the time still caught some images that capture the period's drama. (Photo by Russian State Documentary Film and Photo Archive via AP Photo)





In this photo taken in October 1917, provided by Russian State Documentary Film and Photo Archive, junkers get ready at their position atop of the Kremlin Wall in Moscow, Russia. The 1917 Bolshevik Revolution was long before the digital revolution allowed anyone to instantly document events. But the clumsy cameras of the time still caught some images that capture the period's drama. (Photo by Russian State Documentary Film and Photo Archive via AP Photo)





Women soldiers fighting in the Russian Revolution of 1917. (Photo by Keystone-France/Gamma-Keystone via Getty Images)





In this photo taken in October 1917, provided by Russian State Documentary Film and Photo Archive, machine-gunners guard the Kremlin's Borovitsky Gates, in Moscow, Russia. The 1917 Bolshevik Revolution was long before the digital revolution allowed anyone to instantly document events. But the clumsy cameras of the time still caught some images that capture the period's drama. (Photo by Russian State Documentary Film and Photo Archive via AP Photo)





In this photo taken in August 1917, provided by Russian State Archive of Social and Political History, Vladimir Lenin, disguised by being clean-shaven, as he hid out in a village near Razliv railway station, 35 kilometers north-west of St. Petersburg, Russia. The 1917 Bolshevik Revolution was long before the digital revolution allowed anyone to instantly document events. But the clumsy cameras of the time still caught some images that capture the period's drama. (Photo by Russian State Documentary Film and Photo Archive via AP Photo)





In this photo taken in October 1917, provided by Russian State Archive of Social and Political History, members of the revolution Red Guards pose for a photo with their arms at the Smolny Institute building which was chosen by Vladimir Lenin as Bolshevik headquarters during the October Revolution in 1917. The Kremlin is avoiding any official commemoration of the centennial of the 1917 revolution, tip-toeing around the event that remains polarizing for many, as the historic wounds of the revolution have not healed for the descendants of the event. (Photo by Russian State Archive of Social and Political History via AP Photo)





In this photo taken in Oct. 1917, provided by Russian State Archive of Social and Political History, soldiers cary a revolutionary banner as they march in Liteiny prospekt in St. Petersburg, Russia. The 1917 Bolshevik Revolution was long before the digital revolution allowed anyone to instantly document events. But the clumsy cameras of the time still caught some images that capture the period's drama. (Photo by Russian State Archive of Social and Political History via AP Photo)





Demonstration before Saint Isaac's Cathedral in Petrograd, formerly St Petersburg, during the October phase of the Russian Revolution, 1917. (Photo by Keystone/Getty Images)





In this photo taken in November 7, 1918, provided by Russian State Archive of Social and Political History, Soviet leader Vladimir Lenin addresses a crowd during the first year of Revolution in Red Square in Moscow, Russia. The Kremlin is avoiding any official commemoration of the centennial of the 1917 revolution, tip-toeing around the event that remains polarizing for many, as the historic wounds of the revolution have not healed for the descendants of the event. (Photo by Russian State Archive of Social and Political History via AP Photo)





The Red guard unit of the Vulkan factory pose for a photo in October 1917, St.Petersburg, Russia. (Photo by Karl Bulla Historical Foundation/AP Photo)





In this photo taken in October 1917, provided by Russian State Archive of Social and Political History, armed revolution workers warm themselves at a bonfire in St.Petersburg, Russia. From left: Ivanov, Yarosh and Gribovsky. The 1917 Bolshevik Revolution was long before the digital revolution allowed anyone to instantly document events. But the clumsy cameras of the time still caught some images that capture the period's drama. (Photo by Yakov Steinberg/Russian State Archive of Social and Political History via AP Photo)





In this photo taken in October 1917, provided by Russian State Archive of Social and Political History, soldiers of the Grenadier Regiments lieby wait for Lenin's arrival on the parade ground near the barracks in St.Petersburg, Russia. The 1917 Bolshevik Revolution was long before the digital revolution allowed anyone to instantly document events. But the clumsy cameras of the time still caught some images that capture the period's drama. (Photo by Russian State Archive of Social and Political History via AP Photo)





In this photo taken in July 4, 1917, provided by Karl Bulla Historical Foundation, Russian troops fire on demonstrators with machine guns, on the corner of Nevsky Prospect and Sadovaya Street, in St.Petersburg, Russia. The 1917 Bolshevik Revolution was long before the digital revolution allowed anyone to instantly document events. But the clumsy cameras of the time still caught some images that capture the period's drama. (Photo by Karl Bulla/Karl Bulla Historical Foundation via AP Photo)





In this photo taken in February 1917, provided by Russian State Archive of Social and Political History, soldiers stand at the barricade in Liteyny Avenue in St.Petersburg, Russia. The 1917 Bolshevik Revolution was long before the digital revolution allowed anyone to instantly document events. But the clumsy cameras of the time still caught some images that capture the period's drama. (Photo by Yakov Steinberg/Russian State Archive of Social and Political History via AP Photo)





Russian revolutionary leader Vladimir Lenin (1870 - 1924) speaks to a crowd; fellow revolutionary Leon Trotsky (1879 - 1940) can be seen standing beside the platform on the right looking out over the crowd, Sverdlov Square, Moscow, May 5, 1920. (Photo by Time Life Pictures/Mansell/The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images)