Lenin on the train Catherine Merridale (Auteur)

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. 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. 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 Histo