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Lenin on the train

Merridale, Catherine, 1959-2017
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A gripping account of how, during the First World War, Russia's greatest revolutionary was taken in a sealed train across Europe and changed the history of the world. By 1917 the European war seemed to be endless. Both sides in the fighting looked to new weapons, tactics and ideas to break a stalemate that was itself destroying Europe. In the German government a small group of men had a brilliant idea: why not sow further confusion in an increasingly chaotic Russia by arranging for Vladimir Ilyich Lenin, the most notorious of revolutionary extremists, currently safely bottled up in neutral Switzerland, to go home. This account recreates the extraordinary journey, from harmless exile in Zurich, across a Germany falling to pieces from the war's deprivations, and northwards to the edge of Lapland to his eventual ecstatic reception by the revolutionary crowds at Petrograd's Finland Station.
Main title:
Lenin on the train / Catherine Merridale.
Imprint:
UK : Penguin Books, 2017.
Collation:
xi, 353 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (black and white, and colour), maps (black and white) ; 20 cm
Notes:
Originally published: London: Penguin, 2016.Originally published: UK: Allen Lane, 2016.Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:
9780141979946 (pbk)
Language:
English
BRN:
1878259
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