Opis: Lenin on the Train - Catherine Merridale

The superb, funny, fascinating story of Lenins 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 Merridales Lenin on the Train recreates Lenins extraordinary journey from harmless exile in Zurich, across a Germany falling to pieces from the wars deprivations, and northwards to the edge of Lapland to his eventual ecstatic reception by the revolutionary crowds at Petrograds 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.

Szczegóły: Lenin on the Train - Catherine Merridale

Tytuł: Lenin on the Train
Autor: Catherine Merridale
Wydawnictwo: Penguin Books
Kod paskowy: 9780141979946
Języki: angielski
Rok wydania: 2017
Ilość stron: 368
Format: 13.0x20.0cm
Oprawa: Miękka
Waga: 0.298 kg

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