What to see this year: Russian Revolution centenary

Red Star Over Russia at Tate Modern, Bankside, London SE1, from November 8 to February 18, 2018 (020–7887 8888; www.tate.org.uk) will show photographs, posters (left: Fascism, lithograph by Nina Vatolina, 1941), and other printed media, spanning 1905 to Stalin’s death in 1953

Revolution: Russian Art 1917–1932 is at the Royal Academy, Burlington House, London W1 until April 17 (020–7300 8000; www.royalacademy.org.uk) Reviewed on page 114

Russian Revolution: Hope, Tragedy, Myths at the British Library, Euston Road, London NW1, from April 28 to August 29 (0330 333 1144; www.bl.uk) will re-examine the revolution through posters, maps, letters, postcards, newspapers, photographs, Nicholas II’S diary and a draft of Trotsky’s speech. Accompanying book of the same title (£25)

Avant-garde Russia at the Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts, Norwich, Norfolk, from October 14 to February 11, 2018 (http:// scva.ac.uk), will be focused on a model of the iconic project of the Soviet era, Tatlin’s Tower, which was designed to rise 1,310ft above the River Neva, but was never built

Imagine Moscow: architecture, propaganda, revolution at the Design Museum, Kensington High Street, London W8, from March 15 to June 4 (020–3862 5900; http:// designmuseum.org) will explore the unrealised vision for the post-revolution

Soviet capital. Plans, models and drawings for six unbuilt landmarks are placed alongside propaganda posters, textiles, porcelain and magazines. Includes a room dedicated to Lenin’s Mausoleum

The Currency of Communism at the British Museum, London WC2, from October 26 to May 2018 (020–7323 8299; www.britishmuseum.org) will explore how Communist states radically restructured their economies through visual records as coins and banknotes, as well as barter, voucher systems and the black market