| In his new book, Lenin in Zurich, Alex-ander Solzhenitsyn introduces the centralcharacter of his projected multi-volumeaccount of Russian revolutionary history--Vladimir Ilyich Lenin. With incomparableknowledge of the events and people,Solzhenitsyn explores and clarifies thecrucial years 1914-17 and draws a com-pelling psychological portrait of the manwho was the architect of the Revolution. Lenin in Zurich chronicles Lenin s frus-trating exile in Switzerland, from his arrestin Cracow and subsequent flight to Zurichat the outbreak of World War I to his de-parture for Russia in 1917 in a sealed trainprotected by the German government,years in which Lenin stood alone, withoutsupport from the deeply divided Europeansocialist movement and isolated from hisfellow revolutionaries. Solzhenitsyn ex-amines the private man as well as thefamiliar public figure, concentrating onfacets of Lenin s personality and behaviorthat have been glossed over in most booksabout him: his disillusionment and dejec-tion over the future of the Bol.qhevik cause, |
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