Lenin in Zürich

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In his new book, Alexander Solzhenitsyn introduces the central character of his projected multi-volume account of Russian revolutionary history, begun with August igi4-Vladimír Ilyich Lenin. With incomparable knowledge of the events and people, Solzhenitsyn explores and clarifies the crucial years 1914-17 and draws a compelling p$ychological portrait of the man who was the architect of the Revolution. Lenin in Zürich chronicles Lenin's frustrating exile in Switzerland, from his arrest in Cracow and subsequent flight to Zürich at the outbreak of World War I to his departure for Russia in 1917 in a sealed train protected by the Germán government, years in which Lenin stood alone, without support from the deeply divided European Socialist movement and isolated from his fellow revolutionaries. Solzhenitsyn examines the priváté man as weil as the familiar public figure, concentrating on facets of Lenin's personality and behaviour that have been glossed over in most books about him: his... Tovább

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In his new book, Alexander Solzhenitsyn introduces the central character of his projected multi-volume account of Russian revolutionary history, begun with August igi4-Vladimír Ilyich Lenin. With incomparable knowledge of the events and people, Solzhenitsyn explores and clarifies the crucial years 1914-17 and draws a compelling p$ychological portrait of the man who was the architect of the Revolution. Lenin in Zürich chronicles Lenin's frustrating exile in Switzerland, from his arrest in Cracow and subsequent flight to Zürich at the outbreak of World War I to his departure for Russia in 1917 in a sealed train protected by the Germán government, years in which Lenin stood alone, without support from the deeply divided European Socialist movement and isolated from his fellow revolutionaries. Solzhenitsyn examines the priváté man as weil as the familiar public figure, concentrating on facets of Lenin's personality and behaviour that have been glossed over in most books about him: his disillusionment and dejection over the future of the Bolshevik cause, his love for Inessa Armand, his preoccupation with the difficulties of subsidising the activities of his party and, most important, his secret safe-passage and financial arrangements with the Germans. The Lenin that emerges is not the distant, omniscient leader and theoretician but a man of humán proportions with humán needs, weaknesses, and concerns. Solzhenitsyn has set himself the task of establishing the truth of Russia's early revolutionary years and of probing the character of the man who made such an indelible impact on his country's fate. Lenin in Zürich fulfils the challenge of this task, reaffirming once again Solzhenitsyn's remarkable vision and his vitai place in world literature. Vissza