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Lenin on the Train de Catherine Merridale

Lenin on the Train

Autor Catherine Merridale
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 5 apr 2017
Now in paperback, this reveals how Russian revolutionary Vladimir Ilyich Lenin was sent home from Switzerland in 1917 in a sealed train, by the German government. They hoped this would sow confusion in Russia and break the stalemate of the ongoing war, but they weren't prepared for what happened next. Published to coincide with the centenary of the Russian Revolution.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780141979946
ISBN-10: 0141979941
Pagini: 368
Dimensiuni: 129 x 198 x 22 mm
Greutate: 0.3 kg
Editura: Penguin Books
Colecția Penguin
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom

Notă biografică

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.

Recenzii

[This] remarkable account recaptures the idealism that filled this ragtag band of revolutionaries with the desperate belief that their leader would bring a "springtime of hope" to their divided and brutalised country. This is a revealing portrait of Lenin and his fellow travellers at a crucial turning point in world history.
'A detailed look at the famous train journey... fascinatingly realist... [Merridale] is good at capturing the frankly dodgy atmosphere of high politics and low motives that swirled around post-abdication Russia... Merridale can bring humour into the most gruesome moments.
Catherine Merridale is one of the foremost foreign historians of Russia, combining wry insights with deep sympathy for the human beings suffering the tragedies she writes about... It combines diplomatic intrigue, spycraft, towering personalities, bureaucratic bungling, military history and ideology. Ms Merridale neatly unites background and foreground, and deftly evokes the atmosphere of the time... excellent
Praise for RED FORTRESS: 'Magnificent ... [a] a superbly written book'Telegraph'A zingy, razor-keen history of the Kremlin'Spectator Books of the Year'Exhilarating'
A brisk and often witty overview for the lay reader of the circumstances leading up to the February and October revolutions.
With a novelists' readability and a fertile imagination... Merridale retraces his week-long journey... At the same time, she skilfully weaves into the story the unfolding revolution
With the 100th anniversary of the two Russian revolutions of 1917 around the corner... surely no author will give a better account than Merridale of how, in that fateful year, Lenin made his way with German help from exile in Switzerland to Russia.
Fills a lacuna in the canonical record of Soviet communism.... A superbly written narrative history that draws together and makes sense of scattered data, anecdotes, and minor episodes, affording us a bigger picture of events that we now understand to be transformative
Merridale corrects factual errors made by predecessors and opens a fresh interpretive perspective. Personal reenactment of Lenin's eight-day train-and-ferry journey gives force to materials uncovered through assiduous research in newly opened archives as Merridale resolves perplexities long surrounding the political gambles, devious espionage, and shadowy financing that transport Lenin through Germany on a sealed train bound for a land tempestuously shedding its czarist past and desperate for a leader to guide it into an uncharted future. . . .History recovered as living drama
A colorful, suspenseful, and well-documented narrative

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'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

'On Easter Monday, 9 April 1917, a small, bald Russian with a goatee beard boarded a train in Zurich, where he had been living in exile. Vladimir Ilyich Lenin was about to steam into history ... With a novelist's readability and a fertile imagination, Catherine Merridale retraces his week-long journey to Russia' Nigel Jones, Observer
'Surely no author will give a better account than Merridale of that fateful year' Tony Barber, Financial Times, Books of the Year
'Catherine Merridale's retelling of Lenin's momentous journey is history come alive' Robert Gerwarth, Irish Times

Descriere

A 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.