Lenin Museum near the Red Square, Moscow. 1953

Lenin's childhood and Youth

The Beginning of Revolutionary Activity (1870-1900)

For a Marxist Party of a New Type (1900-1904)

Second Congress of the RSDLP (1903). The Beginning of the Bolshevik Party

First Russian Revolution (1905 - 1907)

Years of Reaction (1907-1910)

A New Rise of the Revolutionary Tide (1910-1914)

First World War (1914 - February 1917)

February Russian Revolution (February 1917)

Leader of the October Russian Revolution (March-October 1917)

Hall of the museum

Founder of the Soviet State (October 1917-1918)

Organisation of the country's defence (1918-1920)

Defeat of Interventionists and Internal Counter-revolution

Pioneers in the museum, 1951.

Architector of the New Russian Socialist Society

Formation of the USSR (1922)

Last Year (December 1922 - January 1924)

Mourning Hall

The Great Ideological Legacy

The Victory of Socialism in the Soviet Union (1925-1941)

Defence of the Achievements of Socialism in the Great Patriotic War (1941-1945)

Leniniana. Exibitions

Contemporary situation and perspectives

The political forces which came to power after August 1991 couldn”t bear the idea that in the centre of Moscow the museum devoted to the leader of the communist party and the Soviet state continued to function. Repeatedly attempts were made to stop its activities and to close the museum. It was possible to avoid this until November 1993. But on 12 November 1993, by a presidential decree, the Central Museum ceased to exist as an independent historical and cultural institution. This happened on the eve of its 70th anniversary.

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