Кэтрин Мэрридейл

A gripping, meticulously researched account of Lenin’s fateful 1917 rail journey from Zurich to Petrograd, where he ignited the Russian Revolution and forever changed the world. In April 1917, as the Russian 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. When the news reached him,...

Исследование британского историка Кэтрин Мерридейл посвящено сразу двум непростым темам — смерти и памяти, которые в случае России ХХ века не только тесно связаны друг с другом, но и способны многое объяснить в советской истории. Специально для этой книги автор, работающая в русле устной истории, встретилась и лично взяла интервью у сотен выживших свидетелей массового голода, войны и репрессий в С...

They died in vast numbers, eight million men and women driven forward in suicidal charges, shattered by German shells and tanks. They were the soldiers of the Red Army, an exhausted mass of recruits who confronted Europe's most lethal fighting force and by 1945 had defeated it. For sixty years, their experiences were suppressed, replaced by patriotic propaganda. We know something of how the s...