Vladimir Ilyich, are you a spy? The leader of the world revolution could rightfully answer this question in the negative: Lenin was not a German spy, since he did not transfer any secret information to Germany. But he, without any doubt, was a German agent, since he carried out an assignment from the German General Staff and, apparently, received money for it. The book by British historian Catherine Merridale, a leading expert on the Russian Revolution, details one of the most sinister covert operations in history: the transfer of a group of Bolsheviks from Switzerland to Russia in April 1917. The seven-day third-class journey from Zurich to St. Petersburg changed the course of the world war and brought Russia to the brink of destruction.