Russian Roulette: How British Spies Thwarted Lenin's Plot for Global Revolution (Paperback)

from Perpetual

Interesting? Yes. Entertaining? Yes. Trustworthy? Nah...

from vguy

History lite, and as such a fun read. Subtitle: "how British spies thwarted Lenin's gobal plot" overstates the case. Lenin's plot seems to have been as much hot air and propaganda as actual strategy, and the spies little more than gadflies on the Bolshevik bottom. Some great character sketches, t...

from vguy

History lite, and as such a fun read. Subtitle: "how British spies thwarted Lenin's gobal plot" overstates the case. Lenin's plot seems to have been as much hot air and propaganda as actual strategy, and the spies little more than gadflies on the Bolshevik bottom. Some great character sketches, t...

from bjmitch

This Bloomsbury Press eBook is rather an odd volume, hard to get into but fascinating all the same. Beginning in 1916 with the conspiracy to murder Rasputin, this part of the book doesn't really seem to belong, but it does straighten out legend from fact about how much it took to kill the priest....