Who benefited from Lenin's sealed train?
Shows who gained or lost, and who disputes a study that says so, in the words of whoever says it.
Not that anyone caused it.
A connection is not evidence of wrongdoing.
Each account
A to Z, none ranked above another.
According to Bolsheviks
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Bolsheviks
benefited from
Primary record
12
Comrade Lenin’s decision to get back to Russia as soon as possible, by any means available, was absolutely correct
The Bolsheviks’ own words on why they accepted the passage.
According to Imperial German government
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Imperial German government
benefited from
Primary record
3
Since their immediate departure would be greatly in our interests, I urgently recommend that permission should be granted at once, accepting the conditions laid down.
Berlin's own words in 1917 on why it let the exiles through.
Lost. No account in our sources says who lost.
Proof 3 sources
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Kronstadt and Petrograd in 1917, chapter IV: The April Days, Marxists Internet Archive (New Park Publications, 1982; translated by Brian Pearce), 1925.
Primary record
Comrade Lenin’s decision to get back to Russia as soon as possible, by any means available, was absolutely correct
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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
R. Grimm’s proposal is fully acceptable since it guarantees free passage irrespective of political affiliation
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Germany and the Revolution in Russia, 1915-1918: Documents from the Archives of the German Foreign Ministry, Oxford University Press, 1958.
Primary record
Since their immediate departure would be greatly in our interests, I urgently recommend that permission should be granted at once, accepting the conditions laid down.
Since it is in our interests that the influence of the radical wing of the Russian revolutionaries should prevail, it would seem to me advisable to allow transit to the revolutionaries there.
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