Andre Van Loon

Bolsheviks on board

According to Catherine Merridale, the famously sinister ‘sealed truck’ in which Lenin travelled back to Petrograd in 1917 was comparatively open, relaxed and comfortable

issue 08 October 2016

  • Lenin on the Train

    Catherine Merridale

    Allen Lane, pp. 368

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