Word: bolsheviks
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...this time Moscow was the seat of intrigue and the author now sees that no man could have prevented the Russians from plunging into Revolution for the sake of bread and peace. The "British Agent" admired many a Bolshevik bureaucrat and got into hot water with his colleagues and superiors for holding out against intervention. Upon finally giving into those about him, the "Agent" lost the confidence of the Bolsheviks and without gaining anyone else's. When Lenin was shot, Lockhart was held in prison for a month as a spy, but upon the recovery of Lenin no evidence could...
...England, apparently in disgrace, during the "ten days that shook the world" (Nov. 7-17, 1917), as best-informed British expert on Russia he was considered indispensable. Early the following year he was sent back again as head of a special mission, to establish unofficial relations with the Bolsheviks. His job: "to do as much harm to the Germans as possible, to put a spoke in the wheels of the separate peace negotiations, and to stiffen ... the Bolshevik resistance to German demands." His complicated and delicate job was made harder by the muddled policy of his own government. "There...
...Trotsky often. He thinks Lenin was extraordinarily impersonal, coldly logical; Trotsky brave, bitter, emotional; both able. No friend to the Tsarist regime (". . . unparalleled inefficiency and corruption. No other nation would have stood the privations which Russia stood for anything like the same length of time"), Lockhart admired many a Bolshevik bureaucrat, got in hot water with his colleagues and his government for holding out strongly against intervention. Finally he changed his mind, thus losing the Bolsheviks' confidence without gaining anybody else's. When Lenin was shot the Bolsheviks arrested Lockhart as a spy, held him in jail...
...mistaken by Mr. & Mrs. Campbell for his wife. In Russia, however, the President does not matter. Josef Stalin matters. Last week another part of Farmer Campbell's book-the part in which he describes his meeting with the Dictator-was savagely attacked in a letter to the Moscow Bolshevik signed "J. Stalin...
After the Bolshevik Revolution of 1917 Comrade Koba's name was great in Russia, where Lenin called him "Stalin" (meaning "Steel") but he still had a wife. Did she die of pneumonia? Did Stalin divorce her as the story goes, "by mail"? At any rate potent Comrade Stalin, aged 40 came back to Tiflis in 1919, dazzled the 17-year-old daughter of his locksmith friend and carried her back to Moscow. Presumably he married her. Why not?" A story has it that for the first few years of their life together Stalin, the suspicious Asiatic husband, used to lock...