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Lenin on the Train (Paperback)
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Lenin on the Train (Paperback)
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List price R405
Loot Price R330
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'The superb, funny, fascinating story of Lenin's trans-European
rail journey and how it shook the world' Simon Sebag Montefiore,
Evening Standard, Books of the Year 'Splendid ... a jewel among
histories, taking a single episode from the penultimate year of the
Great War, illuminating a continent, a revolution and a series of
psychologies in a moment of cataclysm and doing it with wit,
judgment and an eye for telling detail' David Aaronovitch, The
Times 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? Catherine Merridale's Lenin on the Train recreates Lenin's
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. With great skill and insight Merridale weaves the story of
the train and its uniquely strange group of passengers with a
gripping account of the now half-forgotten liberal Russian
revolution and shows how these events intersected. She brilliantly
uses a huge range of contemporary eyewitnesses, observing Lenin as
he travelled back to a country he had not seen for many years. Many
thought he was a mere 'useful idiot', others thought he would
rapidly be imprisoned or killed, others that Lenin had in practice
few followers and even less influence. They would all prove to be
quite wrong.
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