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Lenin on the train

Merridale, Catherine author

2017

Overview

Contents : 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.

• Publisher: Penguin Books
• Subject: Lenin, Vladimir Ilʹich, 1870-1924 Exile / Lenin, Vladimir Ilʹich, 1870-1924 Homes and haunts Russia / Russia Social conditions 1801-1917
• ISBN: 0141979941, 9780141979946

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Call Number	Copies	Material	Location
DK 254 .L46 M47 2017	1	BOOK	AUTOSTORE