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Lenin in Zurich

Pages
340
Published
1976
Language
English

Synopsis

Explore Lenin's isolated years in Switzerland during World War I. The book follows his journey from arrest in Cracow to his departure for Russia in 1917, a period marked by his solitude amidst a fractured socialist movement and estrangement from fellow revolutionaries.

About the author

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Александр Исаевич Солженицын

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn was a Russian novelist, dramatist, and historian. Through his writings he helped to make the world aware of the Gulag, the Soviet Union's forced labor camp system – particularly The Gulag Archipelago and One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich, two of his two best-known works. Solzhenitsyn was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1970. He was exiled from the Soviet Union in 1974 and returned to Russia in 1994. Solzhenitsyn was the father of Ignat Solzhenitsyn, a conduct...

Characters

Vladimir LeninProtagonist
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