Lenin's Private War by Lesley Chamberlain

Lenin's Private War by Lesley Chamberlain

In 1922, Vladimir 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. Through journals, letters, memoirs, and personal accounts, Lesley Chamberlain creates a rich portrait of these banished thinkers and their families. She describes the world they left behind, the migr communities they were forced to join, and the enduring power of the works they produced in exile.

Chamberlain, Lesley: - Lesley Chamberlain is an independent scholar and novelist who has been writing on Russian themes for over 40 years. She is the author of a number of critically acclaimed books, including Arc of Utopia: The Beautiful Story of the Russian Revolution (2017), Motherland: A Philosophical History of Russia (2004), and The Philosopher Steamer: Lenin and the Exile of the Intelligentsia (2006).

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ISBN 13	9780312367305
ISBN 10	0312367309
Title	Lenin's Private War
Author	Lesley Chamberlain
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Publisher	St. Martin's Press
Year published	2007-08-07
Number of pages	432
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