According to this film the capitalist countries celebrated Lenin’s death in 1924, which they expected to bring the demise of the USSR; instead 100,000 more Soviets joined the Russian Communist Party. Not listed on the definitive website animator.ru, but Irina Margolina credits Dziga Vertov with making the film.A series of newsreel films from Dziga Vertov, Elizaveta Svilova, and Mikhail Kaufman which document Russian Life in the early 1920s.