Abstract: The article considers the paintings from the part of the collection of the State Revolution Museum, formed in the 1924 - 1930's, as a holistic art phenomenon and a visual reconstruction of revolutionary era. The author analyzes the paintings from the position of the official power in order to see the inside of a political utopia, by the eyes of its creators, however, without distorting the objective historical circumstances. The researcher's attention focuses on the method of reconstructing the historical era through its art component. The author believes it is necessary to view reconstruction as intentional and the part of the collection under study - in the process of its perception and interpretation, i.e. phenomenologically, but not as a complete artwork. In his research Epishin applies methodological principles and concepts of such approaches as the social philosophical analysis, historical phenomenology, deconstructivism and hermeneutics. As a result of his research, the author makes a conclusion that being a strategic instrument of the Soviet government, the State Revolution Museum developed ideas and values of the cultural, historical, social and political life of the country. Thus, the pat of the paintings collected in the 1924 - 1930s can be reconstructed by a researcher's intent through concretization as an integral art phemoneon representing an identity marker of the government and the 'memory about the government'.