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
Russia's 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 Britain's 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 Bolshevik's
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.
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