Conspirator by H Rappaport
Tells how, for seventeen years, Lenin lived a hand-to-mouth existence outside Russia, working towards the upheaval that in 1917 transformed the political landscape of Europe: the Russian Revolution. This book describes Lenin's triumphs and the conflicts, personal and political, with those who shared his exile.
"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." -- Nick Rennison Sunday Times "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 ..." -- Roger Hutchinson Scotsman "In Helen Rappaport's vivid account, we finally have a worthy counterpart to Simon Sebag Montefiore's Young Stalin" -- George Eaton New Statesman "Pretty much essential reading for anyone interested in Russian history" -- Scott Pack "A spirited history of Lenin's life in exile, which provides an unfamiliar view of the revolutionary as a fugitive" -- Robert Service The Independent
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 and No Place for Ladies: The Untold Story of Women in the Crimean War. She lives in Oxford. For more information, you can visit her website at www.helenrappaport.com
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| ISBN 13 | 9780091930936 |
| ISBN 10 | 0091930936 |
| Title | Conspirator |
| Author | H Rappaport |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Cornerstone |
| Year published | 2009-09-03 |
| Number of pages | 400 |
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