Russian Roulette: How British Spies Thwarted Lenin's Plot For Global Revolution
by Giles Milton /
2014 / English / EPUB
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In 1917, a band of communist revolutionaries stormed the Winter
Palace of Tsar Nicholas II-a dramatic and explosive act marking
that Vladimir Lenin's communist revolution was now underway. But
Lenin would not be satisfied with overthrowing the Tsar. His goal
was a global revolt that would topple all Western capitalist
regimes-starting with the British Empire.
In 1917, a band of communist revolutionaries stormed the Winter
Palace of Tsar Nicholas II-a dramatic and explosive act marking
that Vladimir Lenin's communist revolution was now underway. But
Lenin would not be satisfied with overthrowing the Tsar. His goal
was a global revolt that would topple all Western capitalist
regimes-starting with the British Empire.Russian Roulette
Russian Roulette tells the spectacular and harrowing story
of the British spies in revolutionary Russia and their mission to
stop Lenin's red tide from washing across the free world. They
were an eccentric cast of characters, led by Mansfield Cumming, a
one-legged, monocle-wearing former sea captain, and included
novelist W. Somerset Maugham, beloved children's author Arthur
Ransome, and the dashing, ice-cool Sidney Reilly, the legendary
Ace of Spies and a model for Ian Fleming's James Bond. Cumming's
network would pioneer the field of covert action and would one
day become MI6.
tells the spectacular and harrowing story
of the British spies in revolutionary Russia and their mission to
stop Lenin's red tide from washing across the free world. They
were an eccentric cast of characters, led by Mansfield Cumming, a
one-legged, monocle-wearing former sea captain, and included
novelist W. Somerset Maugham, beloved children's author Arthur
Ransome, and the dashing, ice-cool Sidney Reilly, the legendary
Ace of Spies and a model for Ian Fleming's James Bond. Cumming's
network would pioneer the field of covert action and would one
day become MI6.
Living in disguise, constantly switching identities, they
infiltrated Soviet commissariats, the Red Army, and Cheka (the
feared secret police), and would come within a whisker of
assassinating Lenin. In a sequence of bold exploits that
stretched from Moscow to the central Asian city of Tashkent, this
unlikely band of agents succeeded in foiling Lenin's plot for
global revolution.
Living in disguise, constantly switching identities, they
infiltrated Soviet commissariats, the Red Army, and Cheka (the
feared secret police), and would come within a whisker of
assassinating Lenin. In a sequence of bold exploits that
stretched from Moscow to the central Asian city of Tashkent, this
unlikely band of agents succeeded in foiling Lenin's plot for
global revolution.