The Marx–Engels–Lenin Institute, established in Moscow in 1919 as the Marx–Engels Institute, was a Soviet library and archive attached to the Communist Academy. The institute was later attached to the
The Lenin Institute building in Moscow, 1931. From a slide by Branson DeCou
The first building of the Marx-Engels-Lenin Institute on Pushkinskaya Street, 1926
An illustration of the Institute from the book Красная столица (transl. Red Capital) by Lev Kuleshov, 1930
Entrance to the former Lenin Institute, which now houses the Russian State Archive of Socio-Political History
Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov, better known as Vladimir Lenin, was a Russian revolutionary, politician, and political theorist. He served as the first and founding head of government of Soviet Russia from 1
Marx–Engels–Lenin Institute
…Institut Marksizma-Leninizma; IML, Russian: ИМЛ). The Marx–Engels Institute gathered unpublished manuscripts by Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels, Vladimir Lenin and other leading Marxist theoreticians as well as collecting books, pamphlets and periodicals related to the socialist and organized labor movements…
Lenin (left) at the age of three with his sister, Olga
Lenin was influenced by the works of Karl Marx.
Police mugshot of Vladimir Lenin, 1895