Moscow Underground

PRAISE FOR LENIN ON THE TRAIN:

THE TIMES, THE FINANCIAL TIMES AND ECONOMIST BOOKS OF THE YEAR 2016

‘Twice I missed my stop on the Tube reading this book… this is a jewel among histories’ David Aaronovitch, The Times

‘The suberb, funny, fascinating story of Lenin’s trans-European rail journey to power and how it shook the world’ Simon Sebag Montefiore, Evening Standard

‘A brisk and often witty overview for the lay reader of the circumstances leading up to the February and October revolutions’ Helen Rappaport, Sunday Times

‘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’ Financial Times

Catherine Merridale is an award-winning writer and broadcaster with an internationally acknowledged expertise in Russia and the former Soviet Union. A pioneer of oral history in the region, her first major book, Night of Stone, won the Royal Society of Literature’s Heinemann Prize and was shortlisted for the Samuel Johnson Prize in 2001. More recently, Red Fortress: The Secret Heart of Russia’s History won both the Wolfson History Prize and the Pushkin House Russian Book Prize in 2014. Ivan’s War tells the stories of ordinary Red Army soldiers in Europe’s last great land-based war, while Lenin on the Train tracks Europe’s collective and bungling responsibility for the Great October Revolution.