Lenin on the train

Merridale, Catherine, 1959- author.

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"A gripping, meticulously researched account of Lenin's fateful rail journey from Zurich to Petrograd, where he ignited the Russian Revolution and forever changed the world. In April 1917, as the Russian Tsar Nicholas II's abdication sent shockwaves across war-torn Europe, the future leader of the Bolshevik revolution Vladimir Lenin was far away, exiled in Zurich. When the news reached him, Lenin immediately resolved to return to Petrograd and le...

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Espionage, German Europe Hsitory 20th century

Exiles Switzerland Zurich

Germany Relations Russia

Lenin, Vladimir Ilʹich, 1870-1924 Travel Europe

Lenin, Vladimir Ilʹich, 1870-1924 Travel Germany

Revolutionaries Soviet Union

Russia Relations Germany

Soviet Union History Revolution, 1917-1921

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ISBN:

9781627793018
1627793011

Edition:

First U.S. edition

Description:

xi, 353 pages : illustrations (some colour), maps ; 25 cm

Notes:

"Published simultaneously in the UK by Allen Lane, London"--Title page verso
Includes bibliographical references and index

Contents:

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

LCCN:

2016043803

Control Number:

2026316

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