A gripping account of how during WWI, Russia's greatest revolutionary was taken in a 'sealed train' across Europe and changed the history of the world. Merridale recreates Lenin's journey from harmless exile in Zurich, across a Germany falling to pieces from the war's deprivations, to the edge of Lapland to his ecstatic reception by the revolutionary crowds at Petrograd's Finland Station. Published in time for the centenary of the Russian Revolution.