Lenin on the train
Catherine Merridale
Sold by Libros Eco, Les Franqueses del Vallès, B, Spain
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Add to basketSold by Libros Eco, Les Franqueses del Vallès, B, Spain
AbeBooks Seller since January 19, 2026
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Add to basketA Gripping Account Of How, In The Depths Of 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 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. Dark Forces -- Black Markets -- Red Lake -- Scarlet Ribbons -- Maps And Plans -- The Sealed Train -- Leaderless -- Lenin In Lapland -- From The Finland Station -- Gold -- Fellow Travellers. Catherine Merridale. Includes Bibliographical References (pages 293-334) And Index.
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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.
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