Vladimir Lenin on the Train

Thanks to Supremacy 1914 for sponsoring this video - Play Supremacy 1914 for FREE on PC or Mobile: 💥 https://s1914.onelink.me/TX2k/f57m7n7o Receive an Amazing Unique Starter Pack, only available for the next 30 days! If you like my videos and want to make sure that I make more of them, you can support me here: https://ko-fi.com/sirmanatee This video will cover everything you will need to know about Vladimir Lenin’s train journey from Switzerland to Russia in spring of 1917. It can probably be considered as the most fateful trip that has been organised in the 20th century. In the episode, you will learn why the German Empire was so keen on smuggling the Russian revolutionary back to his home country, how the journey was organised and what its immediate consequences were. Sources: - Creuzberger, Stefan: Das deutsch-russische Jahrhundert. Geschichte einer besonderen Beziehung, Hamburg 2022. - Gerwarth, Robert: Die Besiegten: Das blutige Erbe des Ersten Weltkriegs, München 2016. - Hirschfeld, Gerhard & Krumeich, Gerd: Deutschland im Ersten Weltkrieg, Frankfurt am Main 2013. - Kälin, Adi: Der russische Revolutionär und die Spiesser, in: Neue Zürcher Zeitung, 22.02.2017, https://www.nzz.ch/zuerich/wo-lenin-in-zuerich-spuren-hinterlassen-hat-lenin-und-die-friedlichen-spiesser-ld.146969 (accessed on 09.11.2023). - Lenin, Vladimir: Farewell Letter to the Swiss Workers, 08.04.2017, https://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1917/mar/26b.htm (accessed on 12.11.2023). - Leonhard, Jörn: Der Primat des Krieges? Deutschland und die Russische Revolution 1917/18, in: Tauber, Joachim & Tschubarjan, Alexander (Ed.): Zeitenwende: deutsche und russische Erfahrungen 1917–1919, Berlin 2022, pp. 41-50. - Merridale, Catherine: Lenins Zug. Eine Reise in die Revolution, Frankfurt am Main 2017. - Service, Robert: Lenin. A Biography, Basingstoke & Oxford 2000. Chapters: 0:00 Introduction 0:45 Supremacy 1914 1:42 The German Empire in 1917 4:57 Lenin in Switzerland 7:45 The Planning Process 10:41 The Journey Begins 13:13 Arrival in Petrograd 14:59 The Treaty of Brest-Litovsk 17:41 Outro