LENIN'S PRIVATE WAR

In 1922, Vladimir 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, who se job it was to oversee the deportation. Two ships sailed from Petrograd that autumn, taking Old Russia's eminent men and their fam ilies away to what would become permanent exile in Berlin, Prague, and Paris. Through journals, letters, memoirs, and personal accou nts, Les...[Llegir més]