Lenin on the Train

“‘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”

“‘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”