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In April 1917, as Tsar Nicholas II's abdication sent shockwaves across war-torn Europe, the future leader of the Bolshevik revolution, Vladimir Lenin, was far away, exiled in Zurich. To lead the revolt, Lenin needed to return to Petrograd immediately. But to get there, he would have to cross Germany, which meant accepting help from the deadliest of Russia's adversaries and betraying his homeland. Bringing to life a world of counter-espionage, intrigue, wartime desperation, illicit finance, and misguided utopianism, Catherine Merridale provides a riveting account of this pivotal journey as well as the underground conspiracy and subterfuge that went into making it happen

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Catherine Merridale is the author of Red Fortress, which won the Wolfson History Prize, and two other critically acclaimed books, Ivan's War and Night of Stone. A celebrated scholar of Russian history, she has also written for The Guardian, the Literary Review, and the London Review of Books, and she contributes regularly to broadcasts on BBC radio. She lives in Oxfordshire, England. Gordon Griffin is one of the most prolific and sought-after voice artists in the UK. He can be heard narrating over 700 audiobooks as well as countless TV and radio advertisements, corporate videos, training films, and documentaries.

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