From Marx and Engels’ inception of Communist ideology to Lenin’s failed utopian promise, Gallery I envelops the visitor in a visceral first encounter with the violent revolutions born in Russia that swept across Europe starting with Lenin’s Bolshevik Revolution. No one anticipated that the effects of Communism in Europe would last until the end of the 20th century. Viewers will be introduced to The Communist Manifesto, a tiny political pamphlet which would become the source of suffering for so many.