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Robert Grimm

Swiss socialist politician who first took the Russian exiles’ plan for passage through Germany to the Swiss government.

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1881–1958
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Q115645

Grimm talked to the Swiss Federal Councillor Hoffmann in March 1917 about passage for the exiles, as Lenin’s own party decision records. Accounts differ on his part in the talks with the Germans: see the sealed train.

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  • Lenin's sealed train carried the first proposal to the Swiss government Both sides agree Primary record 123

    Lenin's editors say Grimm took an ambiguous attitude in the talks with the German side, and that the arrangements then passed to Platten.

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  1. 1881–1958 Robert Grimm
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  1. Farewell Letter to the Swiss Workers, Marxists Internet Archive (Lenin, Collected Works, vol. 23, Progress Publishers), 8 Apr 1917. Primary record
    The party majority, led by Robert Grimm
    This letter was written in mid—March 1917 before it became known, on March 19 (April 1), that Grimm had taken an ambiguous attitude in the negotiations with the German representatives.
  2. Decision of the Collegium Abroad, Central Committee, Russian Social-Democratic Labour Party, Marxists Internet Archive (Lenin, Collected Works, vol. 23, Progress Publishers), 31 Mar 1917. Primary record
    That Comrade R. Grimm negotiated with a member of the government of a neutral country, Minister Hoffmann, who did not consider it possible for Switzerland officially to intervene
  3. Germany and the Revolution in Russia, 1915-1918: Documents from the Archives of the German Foreign Ministry, Oxford University Press, 1958. Primary record
    It was due to Grimm that this departure was possible.
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  1. Add the story of Lenin's sealed train from Zurich to PetrogradAlibekf3adfab

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