November will mark the centenary of the Bolshevik coup in St. Petersburg that saw a small sect of radical communists seize control of an empire covering one-sixth of the earth's surface. What followed ...

How often does a train ride alter the course of history? It happened 100 years ago, when Vladimir Lenin, exiled in Zurich yet eager to turn Karl Marx's ideas into "a Soviet system that ruled in the ...

In the spring of 1917, the German spy service sensed a sure-fire means of persuading Russia to make a separate peace and exit the Great War. Czar Nicholas II had abdicated in the face of mass protests ...

In March 1917, amidst World War I, a sealed train carries Russian revolutionaries, led by Lenin, from Germany to St. Petersburg. Along the journey, political tensions and personal dramas unfold, ...

The German “sealed train” that gave Vladimir I Lenin safe passage from exile in Switzerland through wartime Germany to Russia in April 1917, in the aftermath of the overthrow of Russia’s monarchy that ...

In April 1917, a sealed train crossed wartime Europe from Switzerland to Petrograd (formerly St. Petersburg). Inside was ...

Lenin on the Train. By Catherine Merridale. Allen Lane; 353 pages; £25. To be published in America by Metropolitan in March. A BRITISH intelligence officer dismissed Vladimir Lenin and his fellow ...

One hundred years ago, an obscure Russian exile living in Switzerland embarked on a train bound for his snowy and tumultuous homeland. Furtively ensconced in a sealed compartment, the professional ...