Lenin In Zürich: Chapters
Condition: SECONDHAND
This is a secondhand book. The jacket image is a photograph of the exact copy we have in stock. This image shows the condition of this book. Further condition remarks are below.
Condition remarks:
Condition: Very Good. Jacket: Dust jacket present, slightly worn on edges with minor fading. Page Condition: Good, slight yellowing to page edges. Markings: No visible markings. Binding: Hardcover binding intact, no loose pages.
A gripping work of historical fiction, Lenin in Zürich presents a series of chapters extracted from Alexander Solzhenitsyn's monumental The Red Wheel cycle, focusing on Vladimir Lenin's years of exile in Switzerland between 1914 and 1917. With psychological precision and narrative authority, Solzhenitsyn reconstructs Lenin's inner world — his impatience, his ideological obsessions, his complex relationships — as the Russian revolutionary waits for the moment history will summon him home. The prose is intense and unsparing, depicting Lenin not as a myth but as a driven, flawed, and calculating man on the brink of reshaping the world. Translated by H.T. Willetts, this English edition captures the moral seriousness and literary force that earned Solzhenitsyn the Nobel Prize in Literature, making it an essential read for anyone drawn to the crossroads of history and human ambition.
Author: Alexander Solzhenitsyn
Format: Hardback
Published: 1976, The Bodley Head
Genre: Historical fiction
Condition remarks:
Condition: Very Good. Jacket: Dust jacket present, slightly worn on edges with minor fading. Page Condition: Good, slight yellowing to page edges. Markings: No visible markings. Binding: Hardcover binding intact, no loose pages.
A gripping work of historical fiction, Lenin in Zürich presents a series of chapters extracted from Alexander Solzhenitsyn's monumental The Red Wheel cycle, focusing on Vladimir Lenin's years of exile in Switzerland between 1914 and 1917. With psychological precision and narrative authority, Solzhenitsyn reconstructs Lenin's inner world — his impatience, his ideological obsessions, his complex relationships — as the Russian revolutionary waits for the moment history will summon him home. The prose is intense and unsparing, depicting Lenin not as a myth but as a driven, flawed, and calculating man on the brink of reshaping the world. Translated by H.T. Willetts, this English edition captures the moral seriousness and literary force that earned Solzhenitsyn the Nobel Prize in Literature, making it an essential read for anyone drawn to the crossroads of history and human ambition.