Conspirator

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History / Biography "Never before have [Lenin's] mind, habits, quirks, and passions been so weil portrayed as in this book."-FOREIGN AFFAIRS In the years leading up to the Russian Revolution, Vladimir I. Lenin traveled among the capital cities of Europe, developing a network of collaborators and co-conspirators who would play a significant role in the struggle to come. In Conspirator, Helen Rappaport describes the courage and the comedy, the setbacks and schisms, the extreme persistence and the ruthless dedication that carried Lenin along the inexorable path to the Russian Revolution. A vivid account of his years of exile in Europe, Conspirator sheds light on the often-overlooked period that shaped the life of one of the twentieth century's most important figures. "An excellent account of Lenin's formative years as a political exile from tsarist Russia that evokes the desperate scene of the European radical underground with nuance and in engaging detail."-SEATTLE TIMES "A spirited... Tovább

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History / Biography "Never before have [Lenin's] mind, habits, quirks, and passions been so weil portrayed as in this book."-FOREIGN AFFAIRS In the years leading up to the Russian Revolution, Vladimir I. Lenin traveled among the capital cities of Europe, developing a network of collaborators and co-conspirators who would play a significant role in the struggle to come. In Conspirator, Helen Rappaport describes the courage and the comedy, the setbacks and schisms, the extreme persistence and the ruthless dedication that carried Lenin along the inexorable path to the Russian Revolution. A vivid account of his years of exile in Europe, Conspirator sheds light on the often-overlooked period that shaped the life of one of the twentieth century's most important figures. "An excellent account of Lenin's formative years as a political exile from tsarist Russia that evokes the desperate scene of the European radical underground with nuance and in engaging detail."-SEATTLE TIMES "A spirited history of Lenin's life in exile, which provides an unfamiliar view of the revolutionary as a íugitive____Diligently researched."-INDEPENDENT (london) "In Helen Rappaport's vivid account of this often-neglected period, we finally have a worthy counterpart to Simon Sebag Montefiore's Young Stalin. The ruthlessness with which Lenin seized power after he arrived at the Finland Station owed much to the privations and hardships of exile. Rappaport's book reminds us that autocrats are made, not born."-NEW STATESMAN (london) Helen Rappaport is a fluent Russian speaker and a speciálist in Russian history. The author of The Last Days of the Romanovs and No place for Ladies: The Untold Story ofWomen in the Crimean War, she lives in Oxford, England. Vissza