| Edition |
First U.S. edition |
| Description |
414 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm |
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 331-387) and index. |
| Contents |
The night before -- The Paper Civil War -- The Janus year -- Arrest and interrogation -- Journey into exile -- Joining the emigration -- Prague -- Berlin -- Paris -- Ending up -- The sense of what happened -- Appendix 1: GPU report on the arrests of 16/17 August 1922 -- Appendix 2: The lists of deportees from Moscow and Petrograd -- Appendix 3: The lives. |
| Summary |
In 1922, Lenin personally drew up a list of some 160 'undesirable' intellectuals - mostly philosophers, academics, scientists and journalists - to be deported from the new Soviet State. 'We're going to cleanse Russia once and for all' he wrote to Stalin, whose job it was to oversee the deportation. Two ships sailed from Petrograd that autumn, taking Old Russia's eminent men and their families away to what would become permanent exile in Berlin, Prague and Paris. Lesley Chamberlain creates a rich portrait of this chilling historical moment, evoked with immediacy through the journals, letters, and memoirs of the exiles. |
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Lenin, Vladimir Ilich, 1870-1924.
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Intellectuals -- Soviet Union -- History.
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Exile (Punishment) -- Soviet Union -- History.
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Soviet Union -- History -- Revolution, 1917-1921.
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Soviet Union -- Social conditions -- 1917-1945.
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Lenin, Vladimir Ilich, 1870-1924. (OCoLC)fst00055663
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Exile (Punishment) (OCoLC)fst00918133
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Intellectuals. (OCoLC)fst00975799
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Social conditions (OCoLC)fst01919811
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Soviet Union. (OCoLC)fst01210281
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Revolution (Soviet Union : 1917-1921) (OCoLC)fst01907572 |
| Chronological Term |
1917-1945
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| Genre/Form |
History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
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| Added Title |
Philosophy steamer.
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| ISBN |
9780312367305 |
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0312367309 |
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