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Spies and Commissars: Bolshevik Russia and the West

English

By (author): Robert Service

In the immediate aftermath of the Revolution, the Western powers were anxious to prevent the spread of Bolshevism across Europe. Lenin and Trotsky were equally anxious that the Communist vision they were busy introducing in Russia should do just that. But neither side knew anything about the other. The revolution and Russias withdrawal from the First World War had ensured a diplomatic exodus from Moscow and the usual routes to vital information had been closed off. Into this void stepped an extraordinary collection of opportunists, journalists and spies sometimes indeed journalists who were spies and vice versa: in Moscow Britains Arthur Ransome, the American John Reed and Sidney Reilly Ace of Spies all traded information and brokered deals between Russia and the West; in Berlin, Paris and London, the likes of Maxim Litvinov, Adolf Ioffe and Kamenev tried to infiltrate the political elite and influence foreign policy to the Bolsheviks advantage. Robert Service, acclaimed historian and one of our finest commentators on matters Soviet, turns his meticulous eye to this ragtag group of people and, with narrative flair and impeccable research, reveals one of the great untold stories of the twentieth century. See more
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Product Details
  • Weight: 380g
  • Dimensions: 130 x 197mm
  • Publication Date: 07 Jun 2012
  • Publisher: Pan Macmillan
  • Publication City/Country: United Kingdom
  • Language: English
  • ISBN13: 9780330517287

About Robert Service

Robert Service is a Fellow of the British Academy and of St Antonys College Oxford. He has written several books including the highly acclaimed Lenin: A Biography Russia: Experiment with a People Stalin: A Biography and Comrades: A History of World Communism as well as many other books on Russias past and present. His most recent book Trotsky: A Biography was awarded the 2009 Duff Cooper Prize. Married with four children he lives in London.

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