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  title info:
    title: Lenin on the train
  name:
    name part: Merridale, Catherine
    name part: 1959-
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  genre: biography
  genre: Biographies.
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: nyu
    date issued: 2017
    copyright date: 2017
    edition: First U.S. edition.
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: xi, 353 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), maps ; 25 cm
  abstract: A meticulously researched account of Lenin's fateful rail journey across Europe to Petrograd, where he ignited the Russian revolution and forever changed the world. In the early spring of 1917, as the First World War stretched on and Tsar Nicholas II's abdication sent shock waves across 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 lead the revolt. But to get there, he would have to cross Germany, which meant accepting help from the deadliest of Russia's adversaries. The German government, however, saw in Lenin's plight an opportunity to sow further confusion in an increasingly chaotic Russia and arranged for Lenin and a small group of extremists to make the journey in a sealed railway car. Now, drawing on eyewitness testimonies and wartime archives, renowned historian Catherine Merridale provides a riveting account of this enormously consequential journey as well as the underground conspiracy and subterfuge that went into making it happen. Writing with insight and formidable intelligence, she brings to life a world of counterespionage and intrigue, wartime desperation, illicit finance, and misguided utopianism. When Lenin arrived at Petrograd's now-famous Finland Station, he delivered an explosive address to the impassioned crowds. It was the moment when the Russian revolution became Soviet--and a system of tyranny and faith was born that would transform the international political climate.--From jacket.
  table of 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.
  note: Catherine Merridale.
  note: "Published simultaneously in the UK by Allen Lane, London"--Title page verso.
  note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 293-334) and index.
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  subject:
    name:
      name part: Lenin, Vladimir Ilʹich
      name part: 1870-1924
    topic: Travel
    geographic: Europe
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Lenin, Vladimir Ilʹich
      name part: 1870-1924
    topic: Travel
    geographic: Germany
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Lenin, Vladimir Il'ich
      name part: 1870-1924
    topic: Travel
    geographic: Europe
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Lenin, Vladimir Il'ich
      name part: 1870-1924
    topic: Travel
    geographic: Germany
  subject:
    topic: Revolutionaries
    geographic: Soviet Union
    genre: Biography
  subject:
    topic: Exiles
    geographic: Switzerland
    geographic: Zurich
    genre: Biography
  subject:
    topic: Espionage, German
    geographic: Europe
    topic: History
    temporal: 20th century
  subject:
    geographic: Soviet Union
    topic: History
    temporal: Revolution, 1917-1921
  subject:
    geographic: Russia
    topic: Relations
    geographic: Germany
  subject:
    geographic: Germany
    topic: Relations
    geographic: Russia
  subject:
    topic: Exiles
    geographic: Switzerland
    geographic: Zurich
    genre: Biography
  subject:
    topic: Espionage, German
    geographic: Europe
    topic: History
    temporal: 20th century
  subject:
    topic: Revolutionaries
    geographic: Soviet Union
    genre: Biography
  subject:
    geographic: Germany
    topic: Relations
    geographic: Russia
  subject:
    geographic: Soviet Union
    topic: History
    temporal: Revolution, 1917-1921
  subject:
    geographic: Russia
    topic: Relations
    geographic: Germany
  subject:
    topic: HISTORY / Europe / Russia & the Former Soviet Union
  subject:
    topic: BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Political
  classification: DK254.L443 M37 2017
  classification: 947.0841092
  classification: HIS032000 BIO010000
  identifier: 9781627793018
  identifier: 1627793011
  identifier: 9781627793025
  identifier: 2016043803
  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 160923
    record change date: 20170926115112.0
    record identifier: in00003861452
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng