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Exposition
• Introductory exposition hall
• Political history of Russia, 1856-1880s.
• Economics, social development and social and political life in Russia in the 1880s – beginning of the XXth century.
• Russian-Japanese war 1904-1905.
• Russian culture of the second half of the nineteenth and the beginning of the twentieth centuries.
• Russia in the years 1905-1916.
• Revolutionary events in Russia, February – August 1917.
• Revolutionary events in Russia. The formation of the Soviet state. September 1917-March 1918.
• The Civil War in Russia, 1918-1922.
• The policy of the ‘War Communism’. RSFSR in 1918-1921.
• The Russian history in the 1920s. The New Economic Policy.
• The history of Russian emigration, 1918-1930.
• Culture in the USSR in 1920th and in the early 1930th.
• The USSR in the 1930s.
• The USSR on the eve of the Great Patriotic War (World War II). End of the 1930s – beginning of the 1940s.
• Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945.
• Restoration of economy. The history of the USSR in the after-war period, 1946-1953.
• Changes in Party and state leadership in the USSR after the death of Joseph Stalin, 1953-1961.
• Khrushchev’s course for destalinization and reformation of society, 1953-1964.
• The ‘Thaw’ in cultural life of the USSR, 1953-1964.
• Course for building up the developed socialism and emerging crisis in the USSR in 1964-1985.
• The USSR during “Perestroyka” (Reconstruction). Reformative course of Mikhail S. Gorbachev, 1985-1991.
• The Russian Federation in the period of political and economic reforms. Election of Vladimir V. Putin, 1992-2000.
• Memorial exposition.

Exhibitions
• Virtual Exhibition “Red and White”.
• From the Moscow English Club to the Museum of Contemporary History of Russia

Collections
• Collections of documents
  • Collections of documents and photographs on national history
  • Collection of the negatives
  • Collection of leaflets
  • Collection on the history of the workers' and democratic movement in the foreign countries
  • Collection of sound recorded documents
• Collections of decorative art (exhibited part)
• Collections of pictorial art
  • Paintings
  • Graphic arts
  • Works of sculpture
  • Posters
  • Post cards
• Valuable collections of memorabilia and relics
  • Flags, banners, pennants, streamers
  • Articles of clothing
  • Porcelain
• Collection of coins, orders, medals, badges and insignia
• Book collection (the library)
• Automated information retrieval system "Holding" (AIRS)

Advices to the Visitor
• Cafe
• Souvenirs' shop

Publications of the Museum

History of the Museum

Brunch Museums
• Historical Memorial Museum "Presnya"
• Museum "Underground printing house of 1905-1906"
• Museum "Gaining Freedom"
• Memorial flat of G. M. Krzhizhanovsky

How to contact the Museum
• Managerial staff

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