Juliana Geran Pilon
Lenin in Zurich By Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Farrar, 309 pp., $8.95 Solzhenitsyn’s most disturbing work to date, Lenin in Zurich, is his first book dealing primarily, if implicitly, with the West. Though most of the characters are Russian, their ideology, milieu, and financial foundations are Western. More than a portrayal of the most influential revolutionary since Robespierre, Lenin in Zurich is the anatomy of a revolution—a vivisection disquieting in its implications for the present.
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