Lenin's private war : the voyage of the philosophy steamer and the exile of the intelligentsia

In 1922, Lenin personally drew up a list of some 160 'undesirable' intellectuals - mostly philosophers, academics, scientists and journalists - to be deported from the new Soviet State. 'We're going to cleanse Russia once and for all' he wrote to Stalin, whose job it was to oversee the deportation. Two ships sailed from Petrograd that autumn, taking Old Russia's eminent men and their families away to what would become permanent exile in Berlin, Prague and Paris. Lesley Chamberlain creates a rich portrait of this chilling historical moment, evoked with immediacy through the journals, letters, and memoirs of the exiles. Lenins Private War Contents List of Illustrations Acknowledgements A Note on Translation A Note on Transliteration Introduction Part I 1 The Night Before 2 The Paper Civil War 3 The Janus Year 4 Arrest and Interrogation 5 Journey into Exile Part II 6 Joining the Emigration 7 Prague 8 Berlin 9 Paris 10 Ending Up Part III 11 The Sense of What Happened Appendix One: GPU Report on the Arrests of 16 /17 August 1922 Appendix Two: The Lists of Deportees from Moscow and Petrograd Appendix Three: The Lives Notes Bibliography Index