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Summary
The story of Lenin's famous journey across Germany in a sealed train in 1917, arranged by the German government to return him to Russia to foment revolution. Merridale reconstructs the political intrigue between Lenin's exile in Zurich, the German High Command's calculation that he would destabilize Russia, and the chain of events that led to the October Revolution. The book explores how a single journey changed the course of the 20th century.