Lenin's Private War

Cover Type: Hardcover
Book Condition: Very Good
Jacket Condition: Very Good
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
Publisher Place: New York
Publisher Year: 2007
Edition: First Edition

Description: 414 pages. Book and Jacket are both in Very good condition throughout. The Voyage Of The Philosophy Steamer And The Exile Of The Intelligentsia.

Publishers Description: In 1922, Lenin personally drew up a list of some 160 'undesirable' intellectuals - mostly philosophers, academics, scientists and journalists - to be deported from the new Soviet State. 'We're going to cleanse Russia once and for all' he wrote to Stalin, whose job it was to oversee the deportation. Two ships sailed from Petrograd that autumn, taking Old Russia's eminent men and their families away to what would become permanent exile in Berlin, Prague and Paris. Lesley Chamberlain creates a rich portrait of this chilling historical moment, evoked with immediacy through the journals, letters, and memoirs of the exiles.

ISBN: 9780312367305