The Communist Manifesto (1981)

The text of the first chapter of the "Manifesto of the Communist Party" in German.

Engravings and paintings depicting the industrial development of the countries of Western Europe and the production processes in factories in the 1840s, during the rapid development of capitalism, the use of female and child labor.

Paintings and engravings that reflect difficult working conditions.

Episodes of the Lyon Weavers ' Revolt of 1831 (graphic).

Engravings depicting the Silesian weavers ' revolt.

Paintings and engravings illustrating the Chartist movement and the workers ' struggle for the adoption of the Charter in England.

Meetings of the first organizations of the proletariat (graphics), portrait of the head of the "Union of the Just" Wilhelm Weitling.

Portraits of Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels.

Titles of works by Marx and Engels in German, engravings reflecting the activities of Marx and Engels.

Manuscripts of the Old Marx.

Photo of the reading room of the British Museum Library.

The works of Marx and Engels on the shelves.

Portraits of the German philosophers Hegel and Feuerbach, the English theorists of political economy Smith and Ricardo, the founders of utopian socialism-Saint-Simon, Fourier and Owen.

Document of the "Union of the Just" on its reorganization in 1847.

Drawing with the image of Marx and Engels.

Photo of one of the blocks of London.

The announcement of the convocation of the second congress of the "Union of Communists".

Drawings and engravings reflecting the participation of Marx and Engels in the meetings of the Congress.

The manuscript of the draft program of the "Union of Communists", made by Engels in the form of questions and answers, a portrait of Engels.

The text of Engels ' letter to Marx.

The texts of drafts of the "Manifesto of the Communist Party", drawings depicting Marx and Engels while working on the "Manifesto".

The texts of the published "Manifesto".

Engravings and paintings depicting the events of the February revolution of 1848 in France and revolutionary events in other European countries.

Editions of the Communist Party Manifesto in various languages.

Russian translation of the Manifesto, made in 1882 by members of the group "Emancipation of Labor".

Portrait of G. V. Plekhanov.

Publications of the Manifesto in Russian.

Portrait of Narodovolets N. Kibalchich.

A fragment of the text of a handwritten copy of the "Manifesto" from the Kibalcic case.

Drawings and engravings reflecting the struggle of the proletariat against the oppressors and the poverty of the workers in the second half of the 19th century.

Newsreel: railway ships in the depot, ships at the wharves during the economic crisis.

Vans on the road.

Photo of unemployed people in the queue at the labor exchange.

Destruction of grain during the crisis of overproduction.

Hungry residents of one of the Asian countries are asking for bread.

Draining the milk into the river.

A homeless man is sitting on a bench.

One of the newspaper articles about the crisis.

Paintings and engravings reflecting the struggle of the proletariat against the bourgeoisie in the second half of the 19th century.

Engravings and drawings depicting the events of the Paris Commune in 1871, a photo of the monument to the communards who were shot at the Pere-Lachaise cemetery.

Quotations from the text of the "Manifesto of the Communist Party", engravings and drawings reflecting the participation of Marx and Engels in the meetings of workers ' organizations.

Revolutionary posters.

A painting depicting V. I. Lenin proclaiming Soviet power at the 2nd All-Russian Congress of Soviets.

Fragments of the x / film "October".

Newsreel of 1918-1920: Red Army soldiers armed with rifles pass by.

Units of the First Mounted Army on parade in November 1920.

Lenin V. I. speaks at a rally on the occasion of the opening of the monument to Marx and Engels on Theater Square on November 7, 1918, photos of the rallies.

Rallies in Budapest in honor of the proclamation of the Hungarian Soviet Republic in 1919, the speaker's speech.

Fighting on the streets of Munich in early May 1919.

Editions of the works of Marx and Engels.

Quotes from the "Manifesto" about the attitude of the Communists to the opposition movements.

March of the "Union of Red Front-line soldiers in Berlin" in 1925-1927.

Telman E.'s speech at the rally, panorama of the rally.

The faces of the rally participants.

Participants of the rally are holding red banners.

Dimitrov G. M. speaks from the rostrum at the meeting of the 7th Congress of the Comintern in Moscow in 1935.

Demonstration on the streets of Madrid 1936-1939.

Speeches of the leaders of the Spanish Republic, Ibarruri D. on the podium.

Volunteers going to Spain, waving from the windows of the cars.

View of an empty cargo port in one of the European countries.

An empty factory floor during a strike.

Railway trains standing idle on the tracks.

Persons of the unemployed.

Panorama of the slums.

Workers ' demonstrations in England, clashes between demonstrators and the police.

Detentions of demonstrators.

Publications of the "Manifesto of the Communist Party" in the languages of the peoples of the world.

A painting depicting a meeting of the founding congress of the First International.

Newsreel of 1920: participants of the demonstration in honor of the 2nd Congress of the Comintern pass through the arch on the territory of Smolny on July 19, 1920.

Lenin V. I. talks with the delegates of the 2nd Congress of the Comintern.

Columns of demonstrators enter Smolny.

Lenin speaks from the rostrum in the Tauride Palace during a meeting of the 2nd Congress of the Comintern in Petrograd.

Panorama of the meeting room.

Workers ' solidarity demonstrations in European cities organized by local communist parties.

Panorama of the rally (top).

Brezhnev L. I. enters from the rostrum at the meeting of the 26th Congress of the CPSU in the Kremlin Palace of Congresses in February 1981.

Faces of the congress delegates listening to Brezhnev's speech.

View of the Presidium of the Congress, members of the presidium applaud Brezhnev.

Engravings depicting the first May Day demonstration in 1890.

Portrait of F. Engels.

May Day demonstrations in socialist countries.

Views of Red Square during the May Day demonstration in Moscow.

The clock face on the Spasskaya Tower.