Issue #57 The Places of History

The Places of History

Arseny Zhilyaev

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Issue #57
September 2014










Notes
1

Part of a collage from a handwritten curatorial book with a description of the main exposition of the Museum of the First Russian Revolution. Such books were part of the control system of the Soviet cultural services.

2

“Letter to Workers of Red Presnya District of Moscow,” December 25, 1920, in Lenin, Collected Works, Vol. 31, 4th English Edition (Moscow: Progress Publishers, 1977), 535.

3

Part of the same curatorial book on the Museum of the First Russian Revolution.

4

“A Retrograde Trend in Russian Social-Democracy,” in Lenin, Collected Works, Vol. 4 (Moscow: Progress Publishers, 1964), 255–285.

5

Boris Groys, “Politics of Installation,” e-flux journal #2 (January 2009) .

Translated from the Russian by Thomas Campbell