Catherine Merridale: Lenin on the Train: Catherine Merridale [2017] paperback Condition:New fears and realities of black

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Serhii Plokhy traces the history of Ukraine from the arrival of the Vikings in the tenth century to the current Russian invasion of eastern Ukraine and annexation of Crimea

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He finds himself in the midst of deadly conspiracy

Catherine Merridale: Lenin on the Train: Catherine Merridale [2017] paperback Condition:New fears and realities of black'The superb, funny, fascinating story of Lenin's trans European rail journey and how it shook the world' Simon Sebag Montefiore, Evening Standard, Books of the Year 'Splendid a jewel among histories, taking a single episode from the penultimate year of the Great War, illuminating a continent, a revolution and a series of psychologies in a moment of cataclysm and doing it with wit, judgment and an eye for telling detail' David Aaronovitch, The Times By