Lenin on the Train
Autor Catherine Merridaleen Limba Engleză Paperback – 6 apr 2017
Analiza noastră pornește de la arhivele recent accesate și sursele documentare vaste pe care Catherine Merridale le utilizează pentru a reconstrui un moment definitoriu al secolului XX. Lenin on the Train nu este doar o cronică a unei călătorii feroviare, ci o investigație asupra mecanismelor subterane care au permis unui exilat să traverseze teritoriul inamic pentru a declanșa o revoluție globală. Subliniem modul în care autoarea echilibrează tensiunea politică din 1917 cu detaliile logistice ale „trenului sigilat”, oferind o perspectivă nuanțată asupra modului în care disperarea Germaniei de a destabiliza frontul de est s-a întâlnit cu utopismul radical al lui Lenin. Remarcăm rigurozitatea cu care sunt descrise rețelele de spionaj, finanțările ilicite și atmosfera de intrigă din Zurich și Petrograd. Comparabil cu Lenin de Lars T. Lih în ceea ce privește rigoarea analizei ideologice, volumul de față se distinge prin focalizarea pe contextul geopolitic imediat și pe elementele de thriller istoric care au precedat preluarea puterii. Dacă în lucrări anterioare precum Ivan's War, Merridale explora experiența umană în condiții extreme de conflict, aici ea analizează geneza sistemului sovietic prin prisma unei singure decizii tactice monumentale. Credem că această ediție aduce o claritate necesară asupra modului în care un grup restrâns de revoluționari a reușit să schimbe cursul istoriei, transformând un simplu transport feroviar într-un act de trădare care a redefinit ordinea mondială.
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Specificații
ISBN-10: 0141979941
Pagini: 368
Dimensiuni: 128 x 195 x 27 mm
Greutate: 0.3 kg
Editura: Penguin Books
Colecția Penguin Press
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom
De ce să citești această carte
Această carte este esențială pentru cititorii interesați de istoria politică și de originile comunismului. Veți câștiga o înțelegere profundă a evenimentelor din 1917, dincolo de mitologie, descoperind cum s-a negociat întoarcerea lui Lenin în Rusia. Este o lectură captivantă care explică modul în care conjuncturile de război și spionajul au facilitat ascensiunea bolșevismului, fiind un studiu de caz fascinant despre pragmatism politic și consecințe istorice neprevăzute.
Despre autor
Catherine Merridale este o istorică britanică de renume, specializată în istoria Rusiei contemporane și profesor la Queen Mary University of London. Recunoscută pentru capacitatea de a combina cercetarea academică riguroasă cu o narațiune accesibilă, ea a publicat lucrări fundamentale precum Red Fortress și Ivan's War. Colaborează frecvent cu publicații prestigioase precum The Guardian și BBC, fiind premiată pentru modul în care reușește să aducă la lumină aspecte uitate sau controversate ale istoriei sovietice prin utilizarea extensivă a arhivelor rusești.
Notă biografică
Catherine Merridale's books include Night of Stone: Death and Memory in Russia, which won the Heinemann Prize for Literature and was shortlisted for the Samuel Johnson Prize, Ivan's War: The Red Army, 1939-45 and Red Fortress: The Secret Heart of Russia's History, which won the Wolfson Prize for History and the Pushkin House Russian Book Prize.
Recenzii
'A detailed look at the famous train journey... fascinatingly realist... [Merridale] is good at capturing the frankly dodgy atmosphere of high politics and low motives that swirled around post-abdication Russia... Merridale can bring humour into the most gruesome moments.
Catherine Merridale is one of the foremost foreign historians of Russia, combining wry insights with deep sympathy for the human beings suffering the tragedies she writes about... It combines diplomatic intrigue, spycraft, towering personalities, bureaucratic bungling, military history and ideology. Ms Merridale neatly unites background and foreground, and deftly evokes the atmosphere of the time... excellent
Praise for RED FORTRESS: 'Magnificent ... [a] a superbly written book' Telegraph 'A zingy, razor-keen history of the Kremlin' Spectator Books of the Year 'Exhilarating'
A brisk and often witty overview for the lay reader of the circumstances leading up to the February and October revolutions.
With a novelists' readability and a fertile imagination... Merridale retraces his week-long journey... At the same time, she skilfully weaves into the story the unfolding revolution
With the 100th anniversary of the two Russian revolutions of 1917 around the corner... surely no author will give a better account than Merridale of how, in that fateful year, Lenin made his way with German help from exile in Switzerland to Russia.
Fills a lacuna in the canonical record of Soviet communism.... A superbly written narrative history that draws together and makes sense of scattered data, anecdotes, and minor episodes, affording us a bigger picture of events that we now understand to be transformative
Merridale corrects factual errors made by predecessors and opens a fresh interpretive perspective. Personal reenactment of Lenin's eight-day train-and-ferry journey gives force to materials uncovered through assiduous research in newly opened archives as Merridale resolves perplexities long surrounding the political gambles, devious espionage, and shadowy financing that transport Lenin through Germany on a sealed train bound for a land tempestuously shedding its czarist past and desperate for a leader to guide it into an uncharted future. . . . History recovered as living drama
A colorful, suspenseful, and well-documented narrative
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'Splendid ... a jewel among histories, taking a single episode from the penultimate year of the Great War, illuminating a continent, a revolution and a series of psychologies in a moment of cataclysm and doing it with wit, judgment and an eye for telling detail' David Aaronovitch, The Times
'On Easter Monday, 9 April 1917, a small, bald Russian with a goatee beard boarded a train in Zurich, where he had been living in exile. Vladimir Ilyich Lenin was about to steam into history ... With a novelist's readability and a fertile imagination, Catherine Merridale retraces his week-long journey to Russia' Nigel Jones, Observer
'Surely no author will give a better account than Merridale of that fateful year' Tony Barber, Financial Times, Books of the Year
'Catherine Merridale's retelling of Lenin's momentous journey is history come alive' Robert Gerwarth, Irish Times
Descriere
A 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 By 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? Catherine Merridale's Lenin on the Train 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.
With great skill and insight Merridale weaves the story of the train and its uniquely strange group of passengers with a gripping account of the now half-forgotten liberal Russian revolution and shows how these events intersected. She brilliantly uses a huge range of contemporary eyewitnesses, observing Lenin as he travelled back to a country he had not seen for many years. Many thought he was a mere 'useful idiot', others thought he would rapidly be imprisoned or killed, others that Lenin had in practice few followers and even less influence.
They would all prove to be quite wrong.