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What happened here

The Bolsheviks took Moscow after heavy fighting in November 1917 and made it the Soviet capital in 1918. In the 1930s it was the stage for Stalin's show trials. In October 1941 German armies came within sight of the city, but the Red Army's counteroffensive of 5 December 1941 drove them back, Germany's first major defeat. Troops left for the front from its railway stations throughout the war.

Films and series set in Moscow

  1. Must-watch

    The Cranes Are Flying

    1957 · Film

    Here in the story

    1. Home

      Hours after a dawn walk by the river, Boris enlists; Veronika misses his departure and later loses her parents in an air raid.

    2. City

      With flowers in her arms, Veronika searches the crowd for a face among the soldiers coming home from the war.

  2. Must-watch

    Doctor Zhivago

    1965 · Film

    Here in the story

    1. City

      Raised by the Gromeko family, Yuri becomes a doctor and poet, while young Lara is drawn into the orbit of a powerful older man.

    2. Home

      Back from the front, Yuri finds his family home requisitioned and shared with strangers, and his poems suspect in the eyes of the new regime.

  3. Julia

    1977 · Film

    Here in the story

    1. City

      In a gloomy Moscow, Lillian receives news about Julia that will haunt her for the rest of her life.

  4. Mr. Jones

    2019 · Film

    Here in the story

    1. City

      Among the foreign press corps, Jones gets parties, cryptic hints and a warning that journalists may not leave Moscow.

Events at Moscow

  1. War

    Russian Civil War

    The Bolshevik Red Army fought a coalition of anti-communist White forces, independence movements and foreign interventions. Millions died from fighting, terror and famine, and the Red victory led to the founding of the Soviet Union in 1922.

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  2. Politics

    Stalin's Great Purge

    Stalin's regime staged show trials of old Bolsheviks and carried out mass arrests and executions across the Soviet Union. Hundreds of thousands were shot, and the purge of the officer corps weakened the Red Army before the war.

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  3. Diplomacy

    Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact

    Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union signed a non-aggression pact whose secret protocol divided Poland, the Baltic states and Finland into spheres of influence. Freed from the risk of a two-front war, Hitler invaded Poland a week later.

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  4. Battle

    Battle of Moscow

    German armies drove on the Soviet capital and reached its outskirts in freezing weather. A Soviet counteroffensive in December, reinforced by troops from Siberia, pushed them back and ended hopes of a quick German victory.

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