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Spies and Commissars: The Early Years of the Russian Revolution

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Availability:In StockContributor:Robert ServicePublish date:2013-05-07Pages:480
Language:EnglishPublisher:PublicAffairsISBN-13:9781610392396ISBN-10:1610392396UPC:9781610392396Book Category:True Crime, Political Science, HistoryBook Subcategory:Espionage, Political Ideologies, RussiaBook Topic:Communism, Post-Communism & SocialismSize:8.90 x 5.70 x 1.30 inchesWeight:1.2015Product ID:SCFPDJBMNW
The early years of Bolshevik rule were marked by dynamic interaction between Russia and the West. These years of civil war in Russia were years when the West strove to understand the new communist regime while also seeking to undermine it. Meanwhile, the Bolsheviks tried to spread their revolution across Europe at the same time they were seeking trade agreements that might revive their collapsing economy. This book tells the story of these complex interactions in detail, revealing that revolutionary Russia was shaped not only by Lenin and Trotsky, but by an extraordinary miscellany of people: spies and commissars, certainly, but also diplomats, reporters, and dissidents, as well as intellectuals, opportunistic businessmen, and casual travelers. This is the story of these characters: everyone from the ineffectual but perfectly positioned Somerset Maugham to vain writers and revolutionary sympathizers whose love affairs were as dangerous as their politics. Through this sharply observed expos (c)f conflicting loyalties, we get a very vivid sense of how diverse the shades of Western and Eastern political opinion were during these years.
Language:EnglishPublisher:PublicAffairsISBN-13:9781610392396ISBN-10:1610392396UPC:9781610392396Book Category:True Crime, Political Science, HistoryBook Subcategory:Espionage, Political Ideologies, RussiaBook Topic:Communism, Post-Communism & SocialismSize:8.90 x 5.70 x 1.30 inchesWeight:1.2015Product ID:SCFPDJBMNW
Robert Service is a British historian, academic, and author who has written extensively on the history of Soviet Russia, particularly the era from the October Revolution to Stalin's death. Service is the author of twelve books, including Spies and Commissars; the acclaimed Lenin: A Biography; Stalin: A Biography; and Comrades: A History of World Communism. He is currently a professor of Russian history at the University of Oxford, a Fellow of St. Antony's College, Oxford, and a senior fellow at Stanford University's Hoover Institution.
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