The people's train
By: Thomas Keneally.
Publisher: Sceptre
Published: 2009
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 408
ISBN-13: 9780340951859; 9780340980545
Subjects: Russians -- Australia -- Fiction; Soviet Union -- History -- Revolution, 1917-1921 -- Fiction
Genres: Fiction
Description: Artem Samsurov, a protégé of Lenin, makes an extraordinary escape from Russia to reach sanctuary in Australia. But he soon finds that Brisbane in 1911 isn't quite the workers' paradise he was expecting, and that the local Russion Association is more concerned with social events than overthrowing the Tsar.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [407]-408).