In 1922, Vladimir Lenin personally drew up a list of some 160
"undesirable" intellectuals--mostly philosophers, academics,
scientists, and journalists--to be deported from the new Soviet
State. "We're going to cleanse Russia once and for all" he wrote to
Stalin, whose job it was to oversee the deportation. Two ships
sailed from Petrograd that autumn, taking Old Russia's eminent men
and their families away to what would become permanent exile in
Berlin, Prague, and Paris. Through journals, letters, memoirs, and
personal accounts, Lesley Chamberlain creates a rich portrait of
these banished thinkers and their families. She describes the world
they left behind, the émigré communities they were forced to join,
and the enduring power of the works they produced in exile.
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