Great Continental Railway Journeys by Michael Portillo

Author:Michael Portillo [Portillo, Michael]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Simon & Schuster UK

Reward and punishment aboard Trotsky’s train

After the October 1917 revolution by Lenin and his Bolshevik forces, the so-called White Army that opposed them gathered, mostly in the south. In charge of the opposing Red Army, Leon Trotsky (1879–1940) travelled between front lines on an armoured train from 1918 until the war was won. Later, he said: ‘The train linked the front with the base, solved urgent problems on the spot, educated, appealed, supplied, rewarded and punished.’ Inside, there was a printing press that produced a newspaper, a telegraph, a radio, a library, a garage containing two cars and a bath. Fifteen of the 120 men usually aboard the train – discernible by the black leather gear they wore – died after disappearing in battle. Trotsky remained with the train for more than two years, until the battle against the Whites was won.

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