La representación del mausoleo de Lenin en las insignias, medallas y órdenes soviéticas

Since its inauguration in the summer of 1924, the second version of Lenin's
mausoleum has established itself in the Soviet imagination as the ultimate place of cult of the Bolshevik leader and the most emblematic space of the country's memory. From this dual perspective, a corpus of 57 pieces has been examined, including badges, medals and Sovietproduced orders, which include in their designs some visual representation of the funerary monument. The corpus has been classified into six thematic areas. Through the interpretation of their main compositional elements and the historical background of each theme, the different meanings that the representation of Lenin's mausoleum has acquired in Soviet phaleristics have been determined