Memoirs of a British Agent: Being an Account of the Author's Early Life in Many Lands and of His Official Mission to Moscow in 1918 (Papermac)

by R.H. Bruce Lockhart

Book Overview

When first published in 1932, this memoir was an immediate classic, both as a unique eyewitness account of Revolutionary Russia and as one man's story of struggle, and tragedy set against the... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0333386027
• ISBN13: 9780333386026
• Release Date: February 1985
• Publisher: Pan Macmillan
• Length: 376 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.

Customer Reviews

The Bolshevik Revolution from the inside!

This extraordinary book, which I obtained through the Folio Society, is compiled from the personal daily journals of a British diplomat and emissary who was in Russia from 1905 through 1918. He was personally acquainted with many of the principal participants in the Bolshevik Revolution, including Trotsky, whom he visitied almost daily in the early stages of that event, and even Lenin. His eye-witness accounts of many of the events surrounding the entire history of this cataclismic tranformation of Russia from a Tsarist Empire into a Soviet one is like no other. It is in the first person throughout, and is one of the most gripping narratives of its type I have ever read. If you have any interest whatsoever in this period of history, you must read this book!