Red Fortress, Catherine Merridale

Автор: Merridale, Catherine
Название: Lenin on the Train
ISBN: 0141979941 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780141979946
Издательство: Random House - Penguin
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Описание: 'The superb, funny, fascinating story of Lenin's 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 TimesBy 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.

Автор: Merridale C
Название: Night of Stone
ISBN: 0670894745 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780670894741
Издательство: Random House (USA)
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Автор: Merridale Catherine
Название: Red Fortress: The Secret Heart of Russia`s History
ISBN: 1846140374 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781846140372
Издательство: Random House - Penguin
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Автор: Merridale Catherine
Название: Ivan`s War: The Red Army 1941-45
ISBN: 0571218091 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780571218097
Издательство: Faber
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Описание: `Essential reading, not just for those interested in the Eastern Front, but for anyone who wants to understand Russia.` Antony Beevor, Sunday Times They died in their millions, shattered by German shells and tanks, freezing behind the wire of prison camps, driven forward in suicidal charges by the secret police.