{"product_id":"lenin-on-the-train-catherine-merridale","title":"Lenin on the Train, Catherine Merridale","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eA gripping account of how, in the depths of the First World War, Russia's greatest revolutionary was taken in a 'sealed train' across Europe and changed the history of the world\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eBy 1917 the European war seemed to be endless. Both sides in the fighting looked to new weapons, tactics and ideas to break a stalemate that was itself destroying Europe. In the German government a small group of men had a brilliant idea: why not sow further confusion in an increasingly chaotic Russia by arranging for Vladimir Ilyich Lenin, the most notorious of revolutionary extremists, currently safely bottled up in neutral Switzerland, to go home?\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCatherine Merridale's \u003ci\u003eLenin on the Train\u003c\/i\u003e recreates Lenin's extraordinary journey from harmless exile in Zurich, across a Germany falling to pieces from the war's deprivations, and northwards to the edge of Lapland to his eventual ecstatic reception by the revolutionary crowds at Petrograd's Finland Station.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Penguin","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":61580971147598,"sku":"9780141979946","price":6.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0842\/6546\/8238\/files\/9780141979946.jpg?v=1794053908","url":"https:\/\/littlelanebookshop.com\/products\/lenin-on-the-train-catherine-merridale","provider":"Little Lane Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}