A revealing look at Lenin's 17-year exile and the role he played in bringing Revolution to Russia
Helen Rappaport is an historian and Russianist with a specialism in the Victorians and revolutionary Russia. Her books include Ekaterinburg: The Last Days of the Romanovs, No Place for Ladies: The Untold Story of Women in the Crimean War, and Magnificent Obsession: Victoria, Albert and the death that changed the monarchy, as well as Beautiful For Ever: Madame Rachel of Bond Street - Cosmetician, Con-Artist and Blackmailer. She lives in West Dorset.
Vivid ... Lenin's ruthless determination to seize power in October
1917 probably owed much to his awareness that he had but one chance
to escape the world of paranoia and conspiracy in which he had
operated for so long, and that Rappaport evokes so
successfully.
*Sunday Times*
Pretty much essential reading for anyone interested in Russian
history
*Scott Pack*
In Helen Rappaport's vivid account, we finally have a worthy
counterpart to Simon Sebag Montefiore's Young Stalin
*New Statesman*
Helen Rappaport presents an exhaustive, almost week-by-week account
of this period when the great Bolshevik (at times, almost the only
Bolshevik) and his wife Nadya hopped from one European city to
another, dodging secret policemen, living from hand to mouth and
tirelessly writing, debating, organising, plotting, plotting,
plotting . . .
*Scotsman*
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