British museum celebrates anniversary of the Great October Revolution

British museum is going to celebrate a hundred’s anniversary of the Great October Revolution, TASS informs. A Currency of Communism exhibition will be opened in the famous museum. It starts on October 19. The exposition is to display currency notes and coins as well as many other items. The organizers are sure that the exhibition will be of great interest to historians and experts as well as to any other visitors.

Among exhibition items will be banners, orders, medals and other commemorative signs, such as a poster calling to store money in a savings’ bank, an order of Labor Glory, an order of Mother-Heroine and many others.

According to the exhibition supervisor Tom Khokenhall, visitors will have an opportunity to see monetary units of USSR and other Socialist countries. He has noted that all of them have bright and attractive images. A bank note of Somalia in denomination of one hundred shilling has a woman holding weapons, a spade and a baby depicted on it.

It is worth reminding that the British library hosted an exhibition in honor of the Great October Revolution anniversary. Among the exhibited objects are posters, samples of weapons, pictures, audio records and videos. They are stored in library funds, private collections and other institutes of Great Britain. More than 200 historical documents are presented to the audience, including a request of Vladimir Lenin to sign him in the library.

Russian art and Russian history was a subject of great interest in the British capital this year. The Royal Academy of Arts has opened an exhibition Revolution: Russian art of 1917 – 1932. Exhibition Red Star over Russia about Soviet posters and graphics is dedicated to 8th of November.

Russkiy Mir