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INSIDE THE ENIGMA - British Officials in Russia, 1900-39 (Hardcover)
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INSIDE THE ENIGMA - British Officials in Russia, 1900-39 (Hardcover)
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The twentieth century has been fundamentally shaped by changes in
Russia, where disaster in the First World War was followed by the
fall of the Tsar. Nicholas II's replacement first by Kerensky's
liberal government then by the Bolsheviks, and the subsequent Civil
War and foreign intervention, led to the erection of a system of
state tyranny previously unthought of. The Bolshevik regime, with
its ideological hatred of other regimes, was a threat to the west
where developments in Russia were watched with both horror and
fascination.
Britain's information about this series of extraordinary events,
and about what might be about to happen next, was largely dependent
on the small number of British officials, mainly diplomats, posted
in Russia.
"Inside the Enigma" gives us a view from an unusual and privileged
angle of the history of Russia between the turn of the century and
the beginning of the Second World War. The discomforts and
privations suffered by British officials were matched by their
frustration. Impenetrable Tsarist court intrigue was replaced by a
wall of disinformation and suspicion after the Bolshevik seizure of
power. Nevertheless, what they saw and reported makes remarkable
reading.
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