Marking the 100th anniversary of the Russian Revolution, this exhibition tells the story of the ties linking the world's largest nation and Switzerland in a time of upheaval and provides an overview of Russia’s political and cultural development during this period. In the 19th century, Russia was one of the top destinations for Swiss émigrés, but migration also occurred in the opposite direction. Undoubtedly the most famous exile was Lenin. For more than six years the revolutionary lived in Switzerland and it was from here that he prepared for the Revolution. The exhibition displays 26 desks explaining key events in Russia from 1917 to 1932. It also takes a look at the emergence of the gulag. In 1923, under Lenin, the first 'corrective labour camp' sprang up, which became the model for the Soviet camp system. A dense network of forced labour camps later emerged under Stalin. The exhibition ends in the early 1930s at the end of the first Five-Year Plan. The 'Great Terror', Stalin’s persecution campaigns and purges, were still to come.