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POSTSCRIPT: Turns out, the Bolshevik battle cry, "Peace, Land, Bread," should have included gold. Click here and here for the incredible story of Lenin's return from exile on a "sealed train." It was loaded with $10 million in German gold--for the Russian revolution--according to author Michael Pearson (The Sealed Train). He writes: "The final irony was that the Germans’ investment in Lenin was returned to them—with enormous interest. Under a supplementary agreement to the Brest-Litovsk Treaty in August 1918, the new Soviet government paid the Germans 120,000,000 gold rubles—at contemporary rates of exchange more than 240,000,000 marks and far more than the Foreign Office supplied to the Bolsheviks."Michael Pearson
The Sealed Train
Foreword
Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Arrange for train
Get on train
Into Germany
Berlin & the big idea
Chapter 8
Chapter 9
Chapter 10
Chapter 11
Chapter 12
Chapter 13
Chapter 14
Chapter 15
Chapter 16
Chapter 17
Afterword
Stefan Possony
Lenin :
The Compulsive Revolutionary
German contact
Lenin Realizes Power
The Sealed Car and the idea of Leninism
Accusation of Treason
Armed Uprising
George Katkov
The Sealed Train
Stefan Possony
Lenin :
The Compulsive Revolutionary
George Katkov
There is little doubt that his decision
for the immediate leap into the second stage
of revolution was made after leaving Switzerland
and before arriving in Russia.
The
SEALED TRAIN
Michael Pearson
Pearson, Michael
The sealed train
New York: Putnam, [1975]
ISBN 0399112626
“... far from acting like a tiger in a cage, Lenin started to move only after the Germans forced him.”
for the immediate leap into the second stage
of revolution was made after leaving Switzerland
and before arriving in Russia.
The
SEALED TRAIN
Michael Pearson
Pearson, Michael
The sealed train
New York: Putnam, [1975]
ISBN 0399112626
“... far from acting like a tiger in a cage, Lenin started to move only after the Germans forced him.”
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