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October 2016 Issue Douglas Smith Setting the Wheels in Motion Lenin on the Train By Catherine Merridale Caught in the Revolution: Petrograd 1917 By Helen Rappaport
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September 2007 Issue Richard Overy Twentieth Century Monsters Lenin, Stalin and Hitler: The Age of Social Catastrophe By Robert Gellately LR
March 2006 Issue Donald Rayfield Scholars All At Sea The Philosophy Steamer: Lenin and the Exile of the Intelligentsia By Lesley Chamberlain LR
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