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Apr 30, 1990 · Lenin: The Train: Directed by Damiano Damiani. With Ben Kingsley, Leslie Caron, Dominique Sanda, Jason Connery. March 1917. World War I is already three years in. A sealed train with Russian emigrants keeps on driving from Germany and Sweden to St. Petersburg.
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- Drama, History, War
- Damiano Damiani
- 1990-04-30
It follows Vladimir Lenin (Ben Kingsley) on his journey from Switzerland to Petrograd by sealed train through wartime Germany during the Russian Revolution of 1917. Cast. Ben Kingsley as Lenin; Leslie Caron as Nadezhda "Nadya" Krupskaya; Dominique Sanda as Inessa Armand; Timothy West as Alexander Parvus (Helphand) Peter Whitman as Karl Radek
Nov 29, 2016 · Her latest book, “Lenin on the Train,” documents the eight day train journey which would return Lenin from the obscurity of Swiss exile to Russian soil.
Oct 6, 2016 · Catherine Merridale's Lenin on the Train recreates Lenin's extraordinary journey from harmless exile in Zurich, across a Germany falling to pieces from the war's deprivations, and northwards to the edge of Lapland to his eventual ecstatic reception by the revolutionary crowds at Petrograd's Finland Station.
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- Catherine Merridale
Jan 1, 2017 · This book tells the story of Lenin's return to St. Petersburg from Switzerland during WW I. It explains how the German government wanted to use Lenin to disrupt Russia and to get them out of the war. The train journey is used as the outline of a book that talks in detail about St. Petersburg before and after the revolution that overthrew the Tsar.
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- 2016
- Catherine Merridale
- Catherine Merridale
Jun 9, 2017 · In “Lenin on the Train,” Catherine Merridale explains how Russian chaos in 1917 helped lead to a dictatorship in the name of the proletariat.
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Apr 30, 1990 · A sealed train with Russian emigrants keeps on driving from Zürich Germany and Sweden to Sint-Petersburg. The outlaws stand under the guidance of Vladimir J. Lenin. Two senior officers support the revolutionary bomb "to ensure that everything runs smoothly.
