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43
. J. Noulens,
Mon ambassade en Russie Soviétique, 1917–1919
, vol. 1, p. 178; J. Sadoul,
Notes sur la révolution bolchévique, octobre 1917–janvier 1919
, p. 367: letter to A. Thomas, 28 May 1918; V. Fić,
The Bolsheviks and the Czechoslovak Legion
, pp. 5–8, 10–13 and 41–3.
44
. W. Hard,
Raymond Robins’ Own Story
, pp. 202–3.
45
. G. Swain, ‘“An Interesting and Plausible Proposal”: Bruce Lockhart, Sidney Reilly and the Latvian Riflemen, Russia 1918’,
Intelligence and National Security
, no. 3 (1999), p. 83.
46
. C. Kinvig,
Churchill’s Crusade
, p. 13.
47
. Sovnarkom meeting, 20 July 1918: GARF, f. R-130, op. 2, d. 2.
48
. Sovnarkom meeting, 22 January 1918 (NS):
ibid
., d. 1.
49
. V. I. Lenin,
Polnoe sobranie sochinenii
, vol. 36, p. 324.
50
.
The Times
, 8 March 1918.
51
. L. de Robien,
The Diary of a Diplomat in Russia
, p. 252.
52
. R. Vaucher,
L’Enfer bolchévik à Petrograd sous la commune et la terreur
rouge
, pp. 208–9.
53
. J. Sadoul,
Notes sur la révolution bolchévique, octobre 1917–janvier 1919
, p. 319: letter to A. Thomas, 26 April 1918.
54
. R. Vaucher,
L’Enfer bolchévik à Petrograd sous la commune et la terreur
rouge
, p. 209.
55
. J. Sadoul,
Notes sur la révolution bolchévique, octobre 1917–janvier 1919
, p. 319: letter to A. Thomas, 26 April 1918.
56
.
Ibid
., p. 322: letter to A. Thomas, 27 April 1918.
57
.
Ibid.
, p. 365: letter to A. Thomas, 27 May 1918.
58
. Sovnarkom meeting, 25 June 1918: GARF, f. R-130, op. 2, d. 2.
59
.
Pravda
, 27 April 1918.
60
. Sovnarkom meeting, 4 April 1918: GARF, f. R-130, op. 2, d. 1.
61
. R. Vaucher,
L’Enfer bolchévik à Petrograd sous la commune et la terreur rouge
, p. 273; G. V. Chicherin,
Vneshnyaya politika Sovetskoi Rossii za dva
goda
, pp. 18–19;
New York Times
, 6 July 1918.
62
. J. Sadoul,
Notes sur la révolution bolchévique, octobre 1917–janvier 1919
, p. 313: letter to A. Thomas, 16 April 1918.
63
.
Ibid
.
64
.
Ibid.
, p. 325: letter to A. Thomas, 28 April 1918.
65
. R. Vaucher,
L’Enfer bolchévik à Petrograd sous la commune et la terreur
rouge
, p. 35.
66
.
Ibid
., p. 157.

11. Revolts and Murders

 

1
.
Krasnaya kniga VChK
, vol. 2, pp. 38–9.
2
. W. G. Rosenberg,
Liberals in the Russian Revolution: The Constitutional Democratic Party, 1917–1921
, pp. 316–20.
3
. R. H. Bruce Lockhart to A. J. Balfour, 1 November 1918: National Archives, FO 371/3337/9828, pp. 8–9.
4
. J. Noulens,
Mon ambassade en Russie Soviétique, 1917–1919
, vol. 1, p. 178; J. Sadoul,
Notes sur la révolution bolchévique, octobre 1917–janvier 1919
, p. 367: letter to A. Thomas, 28 May 1918.
5
. V. Fić,
The Bolsheviks and the Czechoslovak Legion
, pp. 206, 242, 262, 307–8 and 313.
6
. National Archvies, FO 371/3324/107587, cited in B. Pearce,
How Haig Saved Lenin
, p. 44.
7
. R. H. Bruce Lockhart to A. J. Balfour, 7 November 1918: Robert Hamilton Bruce Lockhart Papers (HIA), box 12.
8
. Z. A. Zeman,
Germany and the Revolution in Russia, 1915–1918: Documents from the Archives of the German Foreign Ministry
, pp. 130 and 137; M. Occleshaw,
Dances in Deep Shadows: The Clandestine War in Russia, 1917–20
, pp. 130–3.
9
. J. Noulens,
Mon ambassade en Russie Soviétique, 1917–1919
, vol. 1, pp. 132–3, and vol. 2, pp. 120–1.
10
. Sovnarkom meeting, 11 February 1918 (NS): GARF, f. R-130, op. 2, d. 1.
11
. Sovnarkom meeting, 9 March 1918:
ibid
.
12
.
Ibid.
13
. Sovnarkom meeting, 2 May 1918:
ibid.
14
. Trotsky’s 1935 diary in L. Trotskii,
Dnevniki i pis’ma
, p. 102.
15
. Sovnarkom meeting, 17 July 1918: GARF, f. R-130, op. 2, d. 2.
16
. A. A. Ioffe, ‘N. Lenin i nasha vneshnyaya politika’ (dated 20 October 1927), APRF, f. 31, op. 1, d. 4, p. 216.
17
.
Ibid
.
18
. Enquiries to Lenin at the Eighth Party Congress, March 1919: RGASPI, f. 5, op. 2, d. 2, p. 5.
19
. G. V. Chicherin,
Vneshnyaya politika Sovetskoi Rossii za dva goda
, pp. 18–19.
20
. M. Ustinov, ‘Svoevremennye mysli’, in S. Rudakov (ed.),
Vokrug moskovskikh sobytii
, p. 10.
21
. G. A. Hill,
Go Spy the Land
, pp. 202–3.
22
. R. H. Bruce Lockhart (Moscow), 10 and 26 May: Milner Papers, dep. 364, fol. 288, and dep. 365, fol. 47.
23
. R. H. Bruce Lockhart (Moscow), 16 May 1918:
ibid
., dep. 364; R. Bruce Lockhart and A. Kerensky, ‘Ordeal by Oratory’ (draft; n.d.), p. 5: Robert Hamilton Bruce Lockhart Papers (HIA), box 5, folder 7.
24
. Notes taken by Robin Bruce Lockhart from George Hill’s account, p. 5:
ibid.
, box 11, folder 1.
25
. George Hill’s answer to Robin Bruce Lockhart’s questionnaire, p. 6:
ibid.
, box 11, folder 1; Ya. Peters, ‘Protokol pokazanii Ksenofontova Kalamatiano, on zhe Serpovskii’, in
Arkhiv VChK. Sbornik dokumentov
, p. 512.
26
. Savinkov’s testimony in ‘Sudebnoe razbiratel’stvo’,
Pravda
, 30 August 1924, pp. 4–5.
27
. R. H. Bruce Lockhart (Moscow) 17 May 1918: Milner Papers, dep. 142, fol. 4; see also dep. 365, fols 171–2.
28
. Lockhart’s telegram, 26 May 1918: National Archives, FO 371/3332/9748.
29
. Savinkov’s testimony in ‘Sudebnoe razbiratel’stvo’,
Pravda
, 30 August 1924, pp. 4–5.
30
. F. Grenard,
La Révolution russe
, p. 322.
31
.
Krasnaya kniga VChK
, vol. 1, pp. 166–7.
32
. Savinkov’s testimony in ‘Sudebnoe razbiratel’stvo’,
Pravda
, 30 August 1924, pp. 4–5.
33
. G. A. Hill,
Go Spy the Land
, p. 207.
34
. F. Grenard,
La Révolution russe
, p. 321.
35
. J. Sadoul,
Notes sur la révolution bolchévique, octobre 1917–janvier 1919
, p. 405: letter to A. Thomas, 10 July 1918.
36
. A. A. Ioffe to the People’s Commissariat for Foreign Affairs, copied to Lenin, Trotsky, Sverdlov and Zinoviev, June 1918: N. Ioffe,
Moi otets Adol’f Abramovich Ioffe
, pp. 65–6.
37
. Sovnarkom, 15 July 1918: GARF, f. R-130, op. 2, d. 2.
38
. J. Sadoul,
Notes sur la révolution bolchévique, octobre 1917–janvier 1919
, p. 405: letter to A. Thomas, 10 July 1918.
39
. G. A. Hill,
Go Spy the Land
, pp. 210–11.
40
. V. I. Lenin,
Neizvestnye dokumenty, 1891–1922
, p. 229.
41
.
Bolshevik Propaganda: Hearings before a Subcommittee on the Judiciary, United States Senate, Sixty-Fifth Congress, Third Session and Thereafter Pursuant to Senate Resolutions 439 and 469 – February 11, 1919 to March 10, 1919
, p. 947; J. Noulens,
Mon ambassade en Russie Soviétique, 1917–1919
, vol. 2, p. 146.
42
. J. Noulens,
Mon ambassade en Russie Soviétique, 1917–1919
, vol. 2, p. 148.
43
.
Ibid
., p. 149.
44
. D. R. Francis,
Russia from the American Embassy, April 1916–November 1918
, pp. 248 and 250.
45
.
Bolshevik Propaganda: Hearings before a Subcommittee on the Judiciary,
United States Senate
, pp. 949–50.
46
.
Ibid
., p. 948.
47
. W. Hard,
Raymond Robins’ Own Story
, p. 191; R. H. Bruce Lockhart report (Moscow), 13 May 1918: Milner Papers, dep. 365, fol. 2.

12. Subverting the Allies

 

1
. Most notably in
The State and Revolution
: see
Polnoe sobranie sochinenii
, vol. 33.
2
. I. S. Rozental’,
Provokator. Roman Malinovskii: sud’ba i vremya
, pp. 198–207.
3
. M. Occleshaw,
Dances in Deep Shadows: The Clandestine War in Russia, 1917–20
, pp. 93–4; C. Andrew,
Secret Service: The Making of the British
Intelligence Community
, pp. 261–2.
4
. G. Nowik,
Zanim zlamano „Enigm

.
Polski radiowywiad podczas wojny z bolszewick
Rosj
1918–1920
, pp. 866–9.

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