 Vladimir Ilyich Yulyanov, who was Lenin, was born in 1870 in Russia and there was a time of developing a crisis in Russian society and the development of capitalism in Russia as a matter of fact. The big movement at that time in his early years was the Narodnyts, which really was based on the peasantry of the need to get rid of the Tsar and many of them had reverted to individual terrorism in order to carry out their actions and Lenin's brother was a member of this organization and he was involved in an attempted assassination of the Tsar. He was caught, arrested and hanged. Lenin at that time was 17 years of age, he was in school and he became interested in socialism and Marxism, which he carried on into his student days. Of course, being a revolutionary, he was expelled from university although he does carry out his degree in law, although he doesn't become a lawyer, he becomes a professional revolutionary and Lenin himself begins to be involved in the 1890s in small circles with workers and students, primarily students, the students in the intelligentsia played a very important key and leading role at this time in Russia, but it was a time of developing capitalism and unlike the working class in Britain, which took 200-300 years to develop and with it craft unionism and so on, in Russia the peasantry were thrown into the cauldron of industry and opened them up to fresh ideas, new ideas, above all the ideas of socialism and Marxism, they were a virgin working class. Of course, you couldn't organise free in Russia at this time, it was a dictatorship and therefore any attempt at revolution was met with a suppression, with imprisonment and of exile. The earliest Russian Marxist group was the Emancipation of Labour group set up by a man called George Plekinov, who became known as the father of Russian Marxism, we'll go into this a bit more perhaps when we go to the Marxist Memorial Library, where we were able to discuss further the origins of the Marxist movement in Russia and of Bolshevism and so on and so forth, but Lenin met Plekinov in 1895 and tried to discuss to them the need for an all Russian newspaper to develop an organisation because the social democracy did not exist at that time in Russia, only in small little groups, but Lenin was arrested soon afterwards and sent into exile and he was only freed from exile in 1900, so five of these years are in Siberia and in 1900 they formed the Iskra movement, the Iskra newspaper, which again we'll go into in a bit further detail later, unfortunately this walk doesn't take place in a chronological fashion, we come here because the nearest point from where we started and across the road we'll see a flat where Lenin lived in 1908, so we're going a bit further into our time but we'll go back sooner or later as we move down towards Sidmelt Street which is around the road, so let's go and see this in Tavistock Place where Lenin lived in 1908 and what he was doing at that time in London, so let's cross the road and have a look. It's May of that year and then it comes to London, it spends one month here. It comes to London for a particular purpose and that is to do research and goes to the British Museum, the British Library and the reason for this research is because of an attack on Marxism that occurs at this time and the reason for the attack was because of the defeat of the first Russian Revolution in 1905. The 1905 revolution lasted a year, tremendous battles, tremendous movements, eventually it was defeated at the end of 1905 and then it set in account the revolutionary period, a period of repression above all. This repression led to more demoralisation and a reaction. With this reaction you have individuals even who supported Lenin at this time who started to try and revise the ideas of Marxism on Marxist philosophy. There's people like Bob Donoff and Lula Chafsky who are getting supported in Lenin ever since 1903 in the Second Congress, nevertheless started to take up on these strange ideas, these revisionist ideas. At that time in Austria and Germany they also had these ideas, revisionist ideas. The new scientists meant they should revise Marxism and they came for the idea perhaps you can combine religion with Marxism. Therefore it was a real challenge to dialectical materialism, the basic philosophy of Marxism. And as a result Lenin saw this as a big challenge and therefore he came to London and spent one month in the British Library gathering all the sources, philosophical writings going back to Bishop Barley in the late 18th century because at least he was a consistent idealist and on the basis of this work he did here he wrote a book called Materialism and Imperial Criticism. Not exactly the most catchier of titles but nevertheless it served its purpose. This was brought down a year later in 1909 and this book was a marvellous book, it analysed again materialism and dialectics and certainly an important work upon a view of a student discussing or learning about Marxist philosophy. So Lenin spent a month of his time, didn't believe it was wasted, Lenin above all was a theoretician. In fact if we wrote a particular paragraph or sentence in what is to be done without revolutionary theory there cannot be a revolutionary movement. But theory is vital, it's a bedrock of the revolutionary movement and therefore he was prepared to stand out as a defender of Marx and Engels. So this is an important theoretical milestone, this type of Marx spent at this particular flat in London. So I'm going to open the feet of Marx rather than Lenin, there we are. As I just mentioned earlier Lenin arrived in London in April 1902 and the reason for that was the ISKRA newspaper which was established in 1900 which was being printed in Germany could not be printed there any longer, there were some repression difficulties therefore they had to move the operation to London. Lenin through Fleck and off-road to a man called Harry Quelsch who was the editor of a paper called Justice the paper of the Social Democratic Federation and he was also well we'll go to the maximum memorial library soon and we can see exactly his office and so on but he wrote to Harry Quelsch whether it was possible for ISKRA to be printed in London and he had the message returned yes it was possible and he's welcome to come. So they had a discussion at this date there were six members of the editorial board of ISKRA and basically three of them decided to come to London and three of them stayed in Switzerland along with Fleck and off Axelrod and Posteref. They remained in Switzerland and Lenin Matov and Vera Szuzulic came to London in order to take care of the production of ISKRA here and Lenin and Krupskaya managed to get the rooms which will see further down the road there but both Julius Matov and Vera Szuzulic set up a home here at this venue and this was to be called the den sorry it was called the den as well by Fleck and off but this was to be called the commune and the reason for that they hired first of all three rooms eventually they hired five rooms in this building because the number of exiles from Russia came to stay for shorter or longer periods here also there was a meeting room which they had hired which I think was the first floor and that's where they discussed the business of ISKRA because Lenin and Krupskaya lived in a flat a two-room flat not far away but it was too small for meetings and this is where the meetings took place to discuss the business of ISKRA of the editorial line correspondence in Russia and so on and so forth I've got a few quotes here from Memories of Lenin by Krupskaya this is the earliest edition 1933 edition which is fuller than the later editions and if I can find the right pages I'll let you know some information as you can see it's four in the pieces here the book but nevertheless we'll see in a second let's have a look here oh yeah this place itself according to Krupskaya was used to produce illegal passports at that time particularly in Britain you didn't really need a pass or a paper to get around the place but in Europe sometimes you need passports so they needed to forge passports and Krupskaya a right to know Mem was that Peter Humon Genevich I believe that's his name who at the insistence of Vladimir Ilyich we christened the matron he had just done a long stretch in prison on his release he became a fervent ISKRAite he considered himself a great expert in faking passports he considered himself that the best method was to smear them with sweat so if that would work whatever this at one time all the tables in our commune this is called this place were turned upside down to serve as presses for faked passports the whole of this technique was extremely primitive as was all our secret work in those days she then goes the point that goes on if I can find the place now when others arrive in this particular building at the beginning of September 1902 Babushkin arrived we fixed him up in the commune where he lived during the whole time is obviously in London two or three days after Babushkin arrived we were astonished as Gupskaya on entering the commune to find how clean everything was all the litter was cleared up newspapers neatly arranged on the table and the floor sweat it appeared that Babushkin had put things in order the Russian intellectual is always filthy said Babushkin he needs a servant as he himself is incapable of tidying up as soon afterwards he left for Russia we did not see him again after that in 1906 he was caught in Siberia transporting arms and along with other comrades was shot by an open grave while Babushkin was yet in London a whole group of Iskara comrades who had escaped from Kiev jail arrived they were Bohman Kraukman Blumenfeld Waloch and Tarisys Blumenfeld had been incarcerated in Kiev jail after being caught on the frontier with addresses and a trunk full of literature that he was taking to Russia I mentioned Blumenfeld because he becomes the he was a compositor by trade and he becomes the kind of business manager to organize Iskara and he takes the because although the 20th century press in the Marx Memorial Library had a printing press it didn't have Russian compositive compositive type set and therefore they had to go to East London where there was several Russian printers where they got the text type set it was then brought back by Blumenfeld to the printing press of 20th century where they printed off copies and then showed them to Lenin so he stayed here as well and then says Krupskaya soon afterwards Trotsky arrived from Siberia at about that time we learned some Samara that Bronstein that is Trotsky arrived there following his escape from Siberia Trotsky arrived in October I was going to quote this phrase when we went to the place in which he set when she said it because Trotsky turned up at Lenin's digs down the road there one morning he was violent knocking at the front door I knew full well if the knock was unusual it must be for us I hurried downstairs and opened the door it was Trotsky and I led him into the room Vladimir Ilyich was only just awakened and still in bed leaving them together I went to see the cab man and prepared coffee when I returned I found Vladimir Ilyich still seated on the bed in animated conversation with Trotsky on some rather abstract theme both the hearty recommendations of the young eagle and this first conversation made Vladimir Ilyich pay particular attention to the newcomer he talked with him a great deal and went with walks with him in fact I've got here the a quote from Trotsky Trotsky lived here with Zasulich and with Matov and in his in his my life he expressed he writes a paragraph about his experience which I think is worth quoting Krupskaya took me to a house a few blocks away that's here where lived Vera Zasulich Matov and Bloomingfield the Iskra printing press manager and where they found a room for me according to the English custom the rooms were arranged vertically as you can see and not on the same floor as in Russia the lowest room was occupied by the land lady and the lodgers had rooms one upon the other there was also a common room in which we drank coffee smoked and engaged in endless discussions this room thanks chief leaders Zasulich but not without the help of Matov was always in a state of utter disorder Plecanoff after his visit to the to the room describes it as a den he also mentioned in London as well as late in Geneva I met Zasulich and Matov much more often than we met Lenin since we lived in the same house in London and in Geneva usually our meals at the same restaurants I was with Matov and Zasulich several times a day whereas Lenin led the life of a family man and every meeting with him aside from the official meetings was a small event the bohemian habits and tastes which weighed so heavily with Matov were utterly alien to Lenin he knew that time he had ever so relative was the most absolute of gifts he spent a great deal of time in the library of the British Museum where he carried on his theoretical studies and where he usually wrote his newspaper articles with his assistance I obtained admission to that sanctuary too I was insatiable and simply gauze myself from the superabundance of books there at least that gives you a bit of a flavor of this place not known to anybody hasn't got any blue plaque and yet here is where the theoretical discussions the political discussions took place to produce the ISKRA newspaper where Lenin would come and discuss with the other comrades where Plechenov would come from abroad come here to discuss with the comrades so this is a very important place where a whole range of discussions would have happened above above all about perspectives for Russia and how to build the revolutionary movement in Russia itself which we will explain a bit later on I think this is quite a milestone of a place really although not recognized like the the real birthplace of the ISKRA movement which then she became Bolshevism this is where the Nikolai Alexandrov Alexeiyev his full name lived and he was an old Russian emigre was part of the revolutionary movement who has been living in London quite a long time had been in touch with Plechenov and Lenin and he was there like he was the he was the man who's going to help them when they arrived and he was Alexeiyev who once again marked off and so Srulish that particular place up in Sidmouth Street and he met Lenin actually as Lenin came off the train and this is what Krupskaya says first of all we were astounded at the tremendous size of London although it was exceedingly dismal weather on the day of our arrival Vladimir Ilyich's face immediately brightened up as he began casting rather serious glances at the stronghold of capitalism who were met at the station by Nikolai Alexeiyev a comrade living in London in the emigration who had a fine knowledge of English us at first he acted as our guide and we were as we were rather a hopeless in our hopeless position ourselves he goes on to explain how when they arrived there they didn't know much English obviously Krupskaya learned English from a book and she actually translated the weds book industrial democracy into into Russian and Lenin also had a very rudimentary understanding of English and they say when they came and heard English they couldn't understand a word of it and when they spoke it no one could understand a word they were saying so that's how difficult it was and therefore they had to take in students actually on a kind of exchange basis that they would teach them Russian and in turn they would teach them English and that's the way that Lenin and Krupskaya learned quite a bit of English at that time but this is a place where it's likely that Lenin and Krupskaya came for two weeks as soon as they arrived they're very annoyed the ghost they stayed at this place with Alexeiyev and began to settle in as it were then quite quite quickly after it was within two weeks they moved and they moved to a place up in about five minutes from here so you can generally see the area is very very closely compact in relation to Iskra agents and the workings of Iskra and the daily lives that they had obviously Lenin then went to the British Museum which is not that far away on a very regular basis as well a bit of peace and quiet you know everybody was on top of one another if you like because he was overcrowded so he needed peace and quiet to think and to write and to study and therefore a lot of that was done in the British Library but after staying here about two weeks they moved up to Hallford Square number 30 and that's what we'll go now although it was bombed during the war the actual place doesn't exist but we'll take you to the to the the spot and we'll give you a bit of history of what happened at that moment in time okay any questions no very good that's the way I like to see it Lenin visited London in April 1905 for the third Congress of the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party but at this time there'd been a split in the party between the Mensheviks and the Bolsheviks and that the conference being held in London here at that time was a purely Bolshevik affair the Mensheviks were meeting at the same time in Geneva I believe so some along the way so you can see how split and divided the party were or was at that time and this is a time also the of the beginnings really of the Russian Revolution regular fight which is going to have a big impact and allow Lenin to return to Russia I think he managed to return to Russia for about two years and then pushed into exile again it was all generally is likely was entirely in exile as with all the Russian revolutionaries they couldn't offer it in Russia only for this small breathing space during the revolution and just afterwards so this was again an important meeting and an attempt to rally the the Bolsheviks and to give them a perspective about what was happening in Russia itself I understand that Lenin had arranged accommodation through Alexeyov again and they went to various places for their food and accommodation in in Kings Cross area and again the pub that we went to originally is probably where they ended up having meals and having drinks in the evening and so on and so relaxing and opening up a bit they were given a small amount of money to subsist on but nevertheless they made the most of it I think so this is Lenin back in 1905 I have seen a film clip taken in 1942 in April 1942 to commemorate Lenin's birthday and that's where they opened up the dude in the war obviously and it looks exactly like this it looks exactly like this so some of these houses here were bombed and there was there was troops lined up on on the on the buildings to listen to the mass audience and the building itself had been bombed during the war but a plaque had been unveiled by the ambassador Maskey that he was and there was a special tribute of a bust of Lenin was placed across the road as far as I could tell again it's only by look at this film you'd look as if this was the entrance here and across the road there by the railings is where the bust was and I'm not sure if that's 100% certain but but look at the film that's the way it looked there was a factory to the left of us I've obviously been demolished and that was quite a remarkable kind of celebration obviously at that time the Soviet Union was in alliance with Britain and America and therefore they were friendly relations and that's why things took place and the the sculpt that was named the back the back in the side he designed the the bust that was being presented here but just as a as a p.s. nothing that just anything I saw relevant to this was a a cutting in the financial times which was dated the 11th of December 2013 so it's two years ago really my grandmother my grandfather's running with Lenin it says if you can believe this you can believe anything he says his grandfather lived in the same street he was a little boy and came out and he was throwing snowballs at Lenin and Lenin got old of him and gave him a smack round the year that's what he said and it's probably true I don't mind you but that's a little when Lenin came over I said he spent two weeks in the street that we just come from and then for the next basically 12 months he would stay here and Krupskaya they had one one first of all a one bedroom flat the landlady was mrs. Yo and she was a bit concerned that Krupskaya wasn't wearing a wedding ring at the time but she was very reassured by those who recommended Lenin and his wife that they were above board and everything was fine as long as they put curtains in the window they said and quite soon afterwards Krupskaya's mother came to stay with them so obviously they they hired the extra adjacent rooms the two rooms were being hired in this particular building in which they said they could actually eat meals like the English in a family environment because they didn't particularly like the English food which was like oxtails and fried fish and other assorted English things that they didn't you know fancy too too too much it is true that I can give us a number of quotes if I give them all they were actually friends with two other Russians Tak Teyev was the man and a woman who weren't support as a viscra they were economists actually either the economists factions but they were very friendly with Lenin and Krupskaya they're the ones who got this particular apartment for them and they went on social occasions with them Krupskaya makes the point that they regularly took bus rides out into the not just into the city also they visited Primrose Hill where Engels used to live and it gives you a great sight of London and basically took it all the as much advantage as possible to connect with the lives of working people in London but it's obviously very difficult because the language difficulties Lenin did speak at a few meetings not that many maybe in East London in my land which is not too far away to commemorate the Paris commune he spoke at one of the big halls there also the SDF put on another meeting there and Lenin spoke at it again he also spoke I believe at the Mayday rally in 1903 before leaving London he actually spoke in the Alexander Palace as one of the international speakers at the event together with the Chihadi and others but he didn't venture too much into that area I would say his main concern was the building of the party there's the development of Iskra and is it Yarira Yarira which is a Russian for Dawn which is a theoretical magazine they also produced in London but the main workers is with Iskra Krupskaya's main work is mainly gathering the correspondence from abroad and deciphering it because obviously he was done in code that would be all that had to be deciphered written up and prepared for publication if possible and Lenin is very concerned about using the paper as we will discuss a bit later as the organiser of the revolution itself Lenin used this public and the Bolsheviks actually used this public meetings we were told one story that the special branch were trying to find out the information about this Lenin and these Bolsheviks and they heard that they were having meetings here so one of the detectives and one of the detectives went upstairs and hid behind some cupboard upstairs and of course Lenin's video began the Bolsheviks had a meeting for most he was all in Russia and this poor old detective was stuck in a cupboard off-couch that missing the Russians couldn't understand a word of all night that was about that was the fun inside the thing it is also said it's not absolutely proved this was also the venue at least one of the venues for the famous second Congress of the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party where the split took place between Mention and Bolsheviks as you know that originally they had a meeting in Brussels that had been abandoned they came over then to or rather Denmark actually it was abandoned in Copenhagen and they came over to London and continued this particular Congress the second Congress but they had to go to various venues and it's believed that this sort of pub was one of those venues that's quite an historical place if it's that if that is the case we can't go further up the road unfortunately if we went a few miles down the road we've come to Southgate Road where the fifth Congress of the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party was held this was a bigger conference altogether this was in 1907 after the obviously the big flush of the 1905 revolution which turned these small groups the small Bolsheviks and the Mentioners doing one party didn't actually split formally until 1912 they grew up quite quite amazingly under the circumstances where they had basically a few hundred thousand members and they had a none of the conferences there's only one Congress rather that was ever held in Russia prior to 1917 and that was the first Congress of the party which was held in in 1898 nine individuals attended the place called Minsk and were basically within a fort night they were all arrested that was it so it became quite evident you could never hold an illegal Congress in Russia otherwise you're the danger of being arrested and eggs out so all the conferences was held outside and one of those was in 1907 the fifth Congress as I said the big Congress of 300 individuals of Bolsheviks a united Congress Lenin was there, Khrushchev was there, Trotsky was there, Zanovyev, Kamenyev, Stalin, Rosa Luxemburg who a layer of people were there and he was Harry Krelsch actually who we're going to see where he worked early on he was the one of the leaders I said of the SDF of the editor of justice he sponsored it he managed to organize this event it lasted three weeks unlike you get a conference this time the last three days this lasted three weeks I know that Maxim Gorky attended and he had a very famous actress wife who was quite well off and he managed to they managed to provide food for the delegates each delegate was given one pound in order for expenses to live and this is their various places around here the only problem was that three weeks to long time and everybody ran out of money and they didn't have enough money to get back to Russia so they could be stuck in London so they panicked they bet I'm wondering what to do so they tried to organize a fundraising event where I believe Fihard he was there, he chose lands where he was there a few others but they didn't really have enough money so eventually they managed to contact a Jewish revolutionary socialist who would become quite wealthy and you owned a soap company in London a local tells and he had something in contact about this problem so he agreed to attend the Congress which he did in the morning listening to the Congress and after listening he agreed to pay £1,700 in order to get all the delegates back home with the proviso that every delegate in the in the Congress signed the bit of paper that they were going to actually pay the money back within six months very foolish thing to do though this they all agreed and they all had a good laugh about it, a family, they heard so you might say no problem and of course after the Congress ended they all went back home six months later there was no money gathered to pay the bill the conditions in Russia were far worse than ever before because of the counter-revolution and the reaction in Russia there's no they didn't have a cat in hell's chance of raising the money in Russia so this fell unfortunately he had to wait and wait and wait he died in 1914 he didn't have his money in 1914 but in 1922 the Russian government honoured the debt and they paid the money to his widow and I believe the IOU with all the signatures is in one of the museums in Russia at the present time we should get a photocopy of it that's the story about the fifth Congress but now we go down here to see the bust of Lenin which is in the small museum here which is taken from this site to escape vandalism it's brought the safety in this particular museum which we'll go to on our way to the maximum warrior life there okay I'll just tell you this is the reading room it goes without saying there's a lot of great archives here as well as general literature this I'm going to refer to as the mural it's actually a fresco because it's painted in the plaster it's painted by I'm doing that memory thing again now it's painted in 1935 and it's painted by let me just have a look but I've just said it actually in the 1935 it's good shit my memory no no it's a pupil I'll tell you in a minute okay it was a pupil of Diego Rivera the Mexican artist it was a guy called Jack Hastings from an aristocratic background painted in 1935 in the plaster Rivera of course had done the painting with Lenin in the Wall Street stock exchange which they covered this was also covered in here and in living memory of now it was uncovered you know they were discovered behind things so Hastings was painting from an aristocratic background became interested in art became interested in the socialist and communist movement he was never a communist himself painted in 1935 under the influence of the communist what's happening in 1935 the Stokonovite movement where they're just about to successfully achieve the five year first five year plan in 1936 that the importance of that would be that it would break the monopoly of North America and Western Europe on mass industrialization with the partial exception geographical exception of Japan partial exception this would inspire the so this is in that central piece is inspired by the stokonovist movement at the top you see the socialist thinkers Robert Owen, Frederick Engels, Karl Marx, Lenin, William Morris and we saw that banner of William Morris other comrades might know a little bit about William Morris we can't go into that here also in 1935 it's that class against class position or what the Trotskis comrades call the third period which was a very leftist period in the communist movement so they reject parliament it's a very leftist very it's just a direct attack of the working class on the bourgeoisie and the lords and ladies and the bishops are just running for the lives the workers are uprooting the foundations of capitalism and it's as simple as that basically here you see depicted the the Britain's first working class movement the Chartists in the first half of the 19th century and I say British not English and also behind them the tall puddle martyrs the founders of I'm not sure about English or British on this one trade unionism obviously they were English but I don't know whether it had a broader movement throughout Britain here it's very white up to now isn't it it's very male up to now I want you to remember that Britain is not a multi-ethnic society in 1935 to the same extent that we know now nevertheless one might be a bit critical there I think it's important here that the people of the colonies the British colonies are depicted which is very important I think also what's very important is about the working class depicted in this painting and one particular individual at the turn of the 19th going into the 20th century Britain's industry industrialization has been built on its coal particularly the quantity but most importantly the quality of Britain's coal so there would be around one million miners at that at the turn of the century going up to 1914 around 20 years before this is painted around a million they were the most important archetypal section of the British organised working class but here look the woman in service if there were a one million coal miners in Britain there would be about 1.3 million women in service the unorganized working class one of the most oppressed sections of the working class subject to sexual abuse from their masters subject to beatings from the thug mistress of the house who would beat them with a rod and physically abuse them so I think it's very important that the woman in service is takes her place as a part an important part of the British working class finally just to say I'm interested in the depiction of the stereotypical depiction of the British housewife she's got a rolling pin she's got a little daughter but look again look at her posture she's not passive she's active she's a leader she's calling them forward and look at her rolling pin it's like a weapon isn't it so I like it but it's got its faults but anyway what is to be done which was obviously a classic of Marxism and that was the decisive weapon by which he used to theoretically educate the comrades that had been inspired or on the basis of that was an article they had done a year earlier in April 1901 and it's published I know you've got a file of Iskra I think on the desk there I'm not sure which one it was but in in April he produced an article called Where to Begin which again outlined the paper as the organizer of the party because everything was so scattered that they needed to have a centralized organization the organization had to the leadership had to be based outside of Russia but with but connected to Russia and I think this is the the real sort of enormous contribution that Lenin made which was also to need to professionalize the party because he was very amateurish as well up until this point and as things go and therefore that also led to the one of the reasons for the split in 1903 at the second congress because this was a very secondary issue you know the composition of the editorial board and what was a member you know what was a sympathizer you think what why do you want to split up that those that's ridiculous it was an anticipation of the political differences that recur between bolshevism and majorism and also is a need for professionalization the need for as Lenin put it in what is to be done you need professional revolutionaries to dedicate themselves to building the party not amateurs not in this you know bourgeois intellectuals will come in and go out you need people prepared to dedicate everything and therefore a lot of students which is a good thing I think at that time join the move revolutionary movement and unlike today if you like you know we've got a bit grumbles today about the tuition fees and so they dedicated everything their lives to the to the working class and in fact later on Lenin was chided you know young boys and young girls that's all you've got young boys that these young boys and young girls change the world that's the whole point of course there was a big a battle that had to be waged between 1902 and 1917 it was about 15 years and Lenin the Bolshevik party would empower and they changed the world this was the other so what you've got here is the kind of a place where Lenin thought his ideas through not just the technically writing and the drafts of Iskra and checking the type but also thinking of the perspectives the class nature the internationalism and so on that it was required for the revolution itself so it's you know this is an historic site as well but history is part as was said earlier history is not simply about the past it's about the future of learning and the whole idea of this I think discussion and this this walk is to spark interest in reading about the ideas of Marxism for this new generation to equip themselves for what is necessary in the next period with the biggest crisis of capitalism we've had this is a this is a retie in the not of history once isn't it but this new generation faced with this terrible capitalist crisis as we were before well we failed before but we can be victorious now on the basis of the theory and the ideas particularly of Lenin when the greatest I think Marxist theoreticians of the movement and understand Lenin is the key to the future so I think it's it's brilliant just to come here and taste a bit of the history as well feel a bit of the history that is here I hope that will inspire us to go on further and further and further until the fundamental end of overthrowing capitalism internationally