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Lenin in Zurich

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

  • 256 pages · about 4 hours
  • First published 1975
  • 27 editions
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1 About this book

"Lenin in Zurich" chronicles Lenin's frustrating exile in Switzerland, from his arrest in Cracow and subsequent flight to Zurich at the outbreak of World War 1 to his departure for Russia in 1917 in a sealed train protected by the German government, years in which Lenin stood alone, without support from the deeply divided European Socialist movement and isolated from his fellow revolutionaries.

  • Political fiction
  • Historical fiction
  • Soviet union, history
  • Heads of state
  • Soviet union

2 About Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

1918–2008

Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn (11 December 1918 – 3 August 2008) was a Soviet and Russian author and dissident who helped to raise global awareness of political repression in the Soviet Union, especially the Gulag prison system. He was awarded the 1970 Nobel Prize in Literature "for the ethical force with which he has pursued the indispensable traditions of Russian literature".

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