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Lenin on the Train: The Journey that Changed the Course of History
by Catherine Merridale
What a misleading title! This book consists of eleven chapters and TWO of them are about "Lenin on the Train". Everything else is prologue or epilogue. But surely it finishes with October Revolution, right? Well, no. Merridale runs out of steam in August, and them jumps ahead to talk about Lenin's legacy.
What I was hoping was to find was some insight into Lenin the man, but all I got was more of the crummy myth. The book was not entirely without merit, however. The chapter entitled "Gold" was intriguing but didn't really shed any new light on how the Revolution was financed. It DID paint a good picture of the chaos that reigned in Petrograd between February 1917 and Octo, I mean August 1917.
Sorry, but I can't recommend.
What I was hoping was to find was some insight into Lenin the man, but all I got was more of the crummy myth. The book was not entirely without merit, however. The chapter entitled "Gold" was intriguing but didn't really shed any new light on how the Revolution was financed. It DID paint a good picture of the chaos that reigned in Petrograd between February 1917 and Octo, I mean August 1917.
Sorry, but I can't recommend.