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.

Boris Shchukinas Vladimir Ilich Lenin
Nikolai Okhlopkovas Vasily
Vasili Vaninas Factory Foreman Matveyev
Nikolai Arskyas Blinov, worker (as N. Arsky)
Nikolai Chaplyginas Kirilin
Vladimir Vladislavskiyas Karnayukhov (as V. Vladislavsky)
Semyon Goldshtabas Josef Stalin
Nikolai Svobodinas Rutkovsky, the Social Revolutionary
Yelena Shatrovaas Anna Mikhailovna
Boris Volchek