Lenin's Journey

Lenin’s return to Russia by German agency in April 1917, writes David Woodward, was one of the turning points in 20th-century history.

Lenin with Swedish socialists Ture Nerman and Carl Lindhagen in Stockholm, March 1917The journey by Lenin and his friends in a sealed train across Germany in April 1917, was one of the turning points in 20th-century history. It was Lenin’s return to his native land at this crucial moment that gave the Russian revolution its shape. But for his journey events would certainly have taken a very different course.

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