Lenin in Zurich Author:Alexander Solzhenitsyn In this extraordinary book Solzhenitsyn re-creates the outcast years of the private man and the public figure-Vladimir Ilyich Lenin. These were the years in which Lenin stood alone, isolated from his fellow revolutionaries, disillusioned and in despair over he Bolshevik cause. These were the years of his obsessive love for his mistress, Inessa... more » Armand, and, crucially, his secret safe-passage dealings with the German high command. Solzhenitsyn draws a vast, compelling portrait of Lenin, fully chronicling his frustrating exile in Switzerland, from his arrest in Cracow and flight to Zurich at the outbreak of World War I to his departure for Russia in a sealed train. Once again, this work reaffirms Solzhenitsyn's remarkable vision and his vital place in world literature.« less