Lenin's Private War: The Voyage of the Philosophy Steamer and the Exile of the Intelligentsia by Lesley Chamberlain

Lenin's Private War: The Voyage of the Philosophy Steamer and the Exile of the Intelligentsia

Lesley Chamberlain

414 pages • first pub 2006 (editions)

nonfiction history informative medium-paced
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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 ...

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