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Spies and commissars : the early years of the Russian Revolution / Robert Service ; [map[s] redrawn by ML Design].
Title:
Spies and commissars : the early years of the Russian Revolution / Robert Service ; [map[s] redrawn by ML Design].
ISBN:
9781610391405
Personal Author:
Publication Information:
New York : PublicAffairs, 2012.
Physical Description:
xv, 441 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
General Note:
"First edition"--T.p. verso.
"Published [in slightly different form] in 2011 in Great Britain by Macmillan"--T.p. verso.
Contents:
Revolution: Troubling journeys ; Russia on its knees ; The Allied agenda ; Cheering for the Soviets ; Revolution and the world ; In the light of the fire ; Diplomatic impasse ; The other west -- Survival: Talks at Brest-Litovsk ; Breathing dangerously ; Revolts and murders ; Subverting the Allies ; Germany entreated ; Subverting Russia ; A very British plot ; The German capitulation -- Probings: Revolving the Russian question ; the Paris Peace Conference ; European revolution ; The Allies and the Whites ; Western agents ; Communism in America ; Soviet agents ; The Allied military withdrawal -- Stalemate: Bolshevism : for and against ; Left entrance ; The spreading of Comintern ; To Poland and beyond ; Trade talks abroad ; The economics of survival ; The second breathing space ; The unextinguished fire -- Postscript.
Summary:
Traces the power struggle between the Bolsheviks and the West at the dawn of the Russian Revolution, offering insight into the roles of diplomats, reporters, dissidents and others who impacted foreign policy throughout subsequent decades.
OCLC Number:
ocn758394759
Availability:
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