The
Marx-Engels-Lenin Institute, launched in
Moscow in 1919 as the
Marx-Engels Institute (
Russian: Институт К. Маркса и Ф. Энгельса), was a
Soviet library and archive attached to the
Communist Academy. The institute was later attached to the governing Central Committee of the
Communist Party of the Soviet Union and served as a research center and publishing house for officially published works of
Marxist doctrine.