Forgotten men; The Russian revolution.(The Philosophy Steamer: Lenin and the Exile of the Intelligentsia)(Book review)

From: The Economist (US) | Date: March 18, 2006 | Copyright information

IN THE autumn of 1922 Lenin deported 70 of the best minds in Russia, pushing them onto two German cruise ships: the Oberburgermeister Haken and the Preussen. Altogether 220 intellectuals, together with their families, were thrown out of Russia in preparation for the creation of the Soviet Union at the end of the year. They had committed no crime except to believe that moral and religious reform was more important than social revolution. Many of them had been critical of the social evils of tsarism, and some had been imprisoned while Lenin was still ensconced in Zurich's public ...

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