Spies and commissars : Bolshevik Russia and the West / Robert Service.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Service, Robert, 1947-

Contributor:

Dorothy Mann Yeakel & Paul Herbert Yeakel Memorial Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

History.

War--Underground movements.

Soviet Union--History--Revolution, 1917-1921--Underground movements.

Soviet Union.

Physical Description:

xiii, 440 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps, portraits ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

London : Macmillan, 2011.

Contents:

1 Revolution

1 Troubling Journeys 11

2 Russia on its Knees 23

3 The Allied Agenda 33

4 Cheering for the Soviets 43

5 Revolution and the World 51

6 In the Light of the Fire 62

7 Diplomatic Impasse 72

8 The Other West 82

2 Survival

9 Talks at Brest-Litovsk 95

10 Breathing Dangerously 106

11 Revolts and Murders 118

12 Subverting the Allies 128

13 Germany Entreated 137

14 Subverting Russia 146

15 A Very British Plot 155

16 The German Capitulation 166

3 Probings

17 Revolving the Russian Question 179

18 The Paris Peace Conference 190

19 European Revolution 200

20 The Allies and the Whites 210

21 Western Agents 219

22 Communism in America 229

23 Soviet Agents 239

24 The Allied Military Withdrawal 248

4 Stalemate

25 Bolshevism: for and Against 259

26 Left Entrance 268

27 The Spreading of Comintern 280

28 To Poland and Beyond 289

29 Trade Talks Abroad 300

30 The Economics of Survival 309

31 The Second Breathing Space 318

32 The Unextinguished Fire 329.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [402]-415) and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Dorothy Mann Yeakel & Paul Herbert Yeakel Memorial Fund.

ISBN:

9780230748071

0230748074

9781447202004

1447202007

OCLC:

751744571

Publisher Number:

99945890843