Lenin on the Train

ISBN-13: 9780141979946 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 368 str.

Merridale Catherine

Opis

A gripping account of how during WWI, Russia's greatest revolutionary was taken in a 'sealed train' across Europe and changed the history of the world. Merridale recreates Lenin's journey from harmless exile in Zurich, across a Germany falling to pieces from the war's deprivations, to the edge of Lapland to his ecstatic reception by the revolutionary crowds at Petrograd's Finland Station.

Recenzje

Twice I missed my stop on the Tube reading this book... this is 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... Catherine Merridale, who won the Wolfson history prize for Red Fortress, her 2013 book about the Kremlin, is one of those historians whose work allows you to understand something more about the world we inhabit now. David Aaronovitch The Times

O autorze

Catherine Merridale's books include Night of Stone: Death and Memory in Russia, which won the Heinemann Prize for Literature and was shortlisted for the Samuel Johnson Prize, Ivan's War: The Red Army, 1939-45 and Red Fortress: The Secret Heart of Russia's History, which won the Wolfson Prize for History and the Pushkin House Russian Book Prize.