Pearson - The Sealed Train (Lenin's secret journey from Switzerland to Russia to start the Bolshevik revolution) (1975).pdf

[ Find more at www.torrentportal.com ] This is Michael Pearson's astonishing book The Sealed Train (1975) which documents Lenin's mysterious journey from Switzerland to Russia where together with his followers (and millions in gold) he was able to start the bloody Bolshevik revolution. In March 1917, Lenin was living in Zurich in poverty, the exiled head of a small extremist revolutionary party that had relatively little following even within Russia. Eight months later, he assumed the rule of 160,000,000 people occupying one-sixth of the inhabited surface of the world, something no other conquerer in the history has done before. The Sealed Train is the story of those thirty-four fantastic weeks. The train itself and the bizarre journey across Germany, then at war with Russia, are a vital and dramatic link in the story. For without the train, Lenin could not have reached St. Petersburg when he did, and if Lenin had not returned to Russia, the history of the world would have been very different. It is one of the great ironies of history that without the help of the German Emperor - the archproponent of the imperialist capitalist system that Lenin was dedicated to destroy - Lenin could never have achieved what he did. His establishment of a socialist state, the first stage in what he hoped would be a world Communist system, was made possible only by German cooperation, a German train and the massive German finance that followed it. Lenin gained his revolution even if it did not assume the immediate global proportions he expected. The Kaiser gained the separate peace he wanted on the Eastern Front so that he could concentrate his forces in France - as well as a side benefit of vast areas of territory that had once formed part of the Tsarist Empire. Find out how supposed enemies were in reality secretly cooperating together in order to enslave millions of people and cause untold suffering which later followed. 265 pages. A must read for everyone.