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INDEX
Page references in bold type denote complete chapters.
Aberdeen, ref 1, ref 2, ref 3
Adler, Alfred, ref 1
agriculture: and American help for, ref 1; Bolshevik policies for, ref 1, ref 2; in Germany, ref 1; Keynes’s economic view of, ref 1; and Lenin, ref 1; machinery for, imported by Russia, ref 1, ref 2; New Economic Policy, ref 1; peasant hostility to seizure of produce, ref 1; and peasant reluctance to sell produce, ref 1; and peasant village communes, ref 1; and Trotsky, ref 1; Yuri Larin and ‘urbanization’ of, ref 1
Albert Hall, London, ref 1, ref 2
Alexandra, Empress, ref 1, ref 2, ref 3
Alexandrinski theatre, Petrograd, ref 1
Alexandrovich, V. A., ref 1
Alexeev, Mikhail, ref 1, ref 2, ref 3, ref 4
Alexinski, Grigori, ref 1, ref 2
Allen, Clifford, ref 1, ref 2
Alley, Stephen, ref 1, ref 2, ref 3
Allied Drug and Chemical Corporation, ref 1
Allied Supreme Council, see Supreme Council (of Allies)
All-Russia Congress of POW Internationalists, ref 1
Altvater, Admiral, ref 1
American Railway Mission to Russia, ref 1, ref
2
American Red Cross, ref 1
American Relief Administration, ref 1, ref 2, ref 3, ref 4, ref 5, ref 6
Anatolia, ref 1
Anet, Claude, ref 1
Anglo-Soviet trade treaty: ref 1, ref 2, ref 3; British terms for, ref 1, ref 2, ref 3, ref 4; negotiations, ref 1, ref 2; timing of, ref 1, ref 2
Antaeus Export and Import Company, ref 1
anti-Bolsheviks: anger at liaison between Reds and Allies, ref 1; in Britain, ref 1, ref 2; coalition of politicians in Russia, ref 1; Congress in Warsaw, ref 1; diplomatic roles, ref 1; majority in Constituent Assembly, ref 1; press reports, ref 1; Provisional Government and, ref 1; Socialist-Revolutionary government, ref 1; see also Volunteer Army; Western Allies; White forces
Antonov, A. S., ref 1
‘April Theses’ (Lenin), ref 1, ref 2
Archangel: Allied occupation of, ref 1, ref 2, ref 3; Allied occupation of: and Lockhart, ref 1; Bolshevik plan for German attack on, ref 1, ref 2; British plan to overthrow Soviet in, ref 1; evacuation of Allied troops from, ref 1, ref 2; importance as international port, ref 1
Armand, Inessa, ref 1
Armstrong Whitworth, ref 1
Association Financière, Industrielle et Commerciale Russe, ref 1
Austria: and armistice, ref 1; Army of, ref 1; and blockade of river Danube, ref 1; and Bolshevik propaganda, ref 1; diplomats of, in Petrograd, ref 1; discontent in, ref 1; ex-prisoners of war of, ref 1, ref 2; military and diplomatic contribution to Central Powers, ref 1, ref 2, ref 3, ref 4; and Paris Peace Conference, ref 1; revolutionary outbreaks in, ref 1, ref 2, ref 3
Azbuka (White intelligence network), ref 1
Azerbaijan: becomes Soviet republic, ref 1; Congress of the Peoples of the East, ref 1; nationalization of foreign companies, ref 1; oil industry, ref 1, ref 2, ref 3
Baden, Max von, ref 1, ref 2
Bagge, John Picton, ref 1, ref 2, ref 3
Baker, George Barr, ref 1
Bakhmetev, Boris: ref 1, ref 2, ref 3, ref 4; access to bank accounts of Provisional Government, ref 1, ref 2
Baku, Azerbaijan: and attracting oil companies back, ref 1; and British oil companies, ref 1; and Congress of Peoples of the East, ref 1; and Council for Propaganda and Action, ref 1; lease of oil fields to foreigners, ref 1; Lenin orders no acceptance of British help, ref 1; and Nobel Oil Company, ref 1; and oil companies and their assets, ref 1; oil output and Germans, ref 1
Baku Consolidated Oilfields, ref 1
Balabanova, Angelika, ref 1
Balfour, A. J.: and the Bolsheviks, ref 1; and Chicherin and Petrov, ref 1; and Churchill, ref 1; and informal intermediaries, ref 1, ref 2; and Kamenev, ref 1; and Litvinov, ref 1; and Lockhart, ref 1, ref 2; and Ukraine, ref 1; in Washington, ref 1
Barbusse, Henri, ref 1
Bashkirov, Vladimir, ref 1
Bauer, Rudolf, ref 1, ref 2
Bavarian Council Republic, ref 1
Beatty, Bessie: background, ref 1; after fall of Provisional Government, ref 1; in Petrograd, ref 1; and Rhys Williams, ref 1; and Russian language, ref 1; and Trotsky, ref 1, ref 2; postscript, ref 1
Beaverbrook, Lord, ref 1, ref 2
Beika, Kristap, ref 1
Benckendorff, Moura (née Zakrevskaya): assistant to Gorki, ref 1, ref 2; and Lockhart, ref 1, ref 2, ref 3; and Lockhart: correspondence, ref 1; on Ransome, ref 1; postscript, ref 1
Berchtold, Count, ref 1
Berkman, Alexander: deported to Soviet Russia, ref 1; detained by Department of Justice in America, ref 1; John Reed as witness for defence, ref 1; protest about imprisonment of, ref 1; and Soviet authorities, ref 1
Bernstein, Herman, ref 1
Berzin, Eduard, ref 1, ref 2, ref 3, ref 4
Berzin, Yan, ref 1, ref 2, ref 3, ref 4, ref 5
Bessarabia, ref 1
Bethmann-Hollweg, Theobald von, ref 1
Bevin, Ernest, ref 1
Bialostok, ref 1
Birse, Edward, ref 1
Black, Dora, ref 1
Bliss, Tasker, ref 1
Blyumkin, Yakov, ref 1, ref 2
Bohemia in London, ref 1
‘Bolo Liquidation Lunches’, ref 1
Bolsheviks: ref 1, ref 2, ref 3; for and against, ref 1; and America, ref 1, ref 2, ref 3, ref 4, ref 5; and America: distrust, ref 1; and America: Finnish Information Bureau, ref 1, ref 2; American Relief Administration, ref 1, ref 2, ref 3; Brest-Litovsk treaty, ref 1, ref 2, ref 3, ref 4; and Britain, ref 1, ref 2, ref 3, ref 4, ref 5, ref 6, ref 7, ref 8; and Britain: counter-revolutionaries, ref 1; and Britain: seizure of Archangel, ref 1; and Britain: the Lockhart Plot, ref 1; and Britain: trade talks, ref 1, ref 2, ref 3, ref 4, ref 5, ref 6, ref 7; Central Committee, ref 1, ref 2, ref 3, ref 4, ref 5, ref 6, ref 7; Central Committee: emergency session, ref 1; Central Committee: power transferred to soviets, ref 1; Comintern and expansionism, ref 1, ref 2, ref 3; and diplomacy, ref 1, ref 2, ref 3; doctrine of, ref 1, ref 2, ref 3, ref 4, ref 5, ref 6; doctrine of: grandiose ideas, ref 1; and Eastern peoples, ref 1; and European revolution, ref 1, ref 2, ref 3, ref 4, ref 5; ‘fellow-travellers’, ref 1; and Finnish independence, ref 1; and foreign trade, ref 1, ref 2, ref 3 , ref 4 , ref 5, ref 6; and French agents, ref 1; and Germany, ref 1, ref2 , ref 3, ref 4, ref 5; and Germany: following Armistice with Allies, ref 1; and Germany: help from, ref 1; and Germany: revolution in, ref 1, ref 2, ref 3; the Kronstadt mutiny, ref 1, ref 2, ref 3, ref 4; and Marxism, ref 1, ref 2, ref 3, ref 4; and the Mensheviks, ref 1, ref 2, ref 3, ref 4, ref 5, ref 6, ref 7, ref 8, ref 9, ref 10; military, see Red Army; and Murmansk landings, ref 1, ref 2, ref 3; New Economic Policy, ref 1, ref 2, ref 3, ref 4; oil production in Baku, ref 1, ref 2; opposition to, ref 1, ref 2, ref 3, ref 4, ref 5, ref 6, ref 7; see also Lockhart Plot, the; White forces and Poland, ref 1, ref 2, ref 3; propaganda, ref 1, ref 2, ref 3, ref 4, ref 5, ref 6; propaganda: in Russia, ref 1; and the Provisional Government, ref 1, ref 2, ref 3; and the Provisional Government: demonstrations against, ref 1; and the Provisional Government: overthrown, ref 1; and rail network, ref 1; and Romania, ref 1; and the Romanovs, ref 1; Russian Bureau of, ref 1; and the Russian economy, ref 1, ref 2, ref 3, ref 4; and the Socialist-Revolutionaries, ref 1, ref 2, ref 3, ref 4, ref 5, ref 6, ref 7, ref 8, ref 9; and the Socialist-Revolutionaries: concordat with, ref 1; spreading revolution, ref 1, ref 2; spreading revolution: POWs, ref 1; Stalin as leader, ref 1, ref 2; and subversive activity, ref 1, ref 2; the Tambov peasant revolt, ref 1; view of information, ref 1; and Western sympathisers, ref 1, ref 2, ref 3; and Western recruits: Sadoul, ref 1; see also Lenin, Vladimir Ilich (Ulyanov); Trotsky, Lev Davidovich
Bolshevik Revolution: Its Rise and Meaning, The (Litvinov), ref 1
Bolshoi Opera, Petrograd, ref 1
Bonar Law, Andrew, ref 1, ref 2
Bonch-Bruevich, Vladimir, ref 1
Bondfied, Margaret, ref 1, ref 2
Botosani, ref 1, ref 2
Boyce, Commander Ernest, ref 1
Boyle, Colonel Joe, ref 1
Bratianu, Ionel, ref 1, ref 2
Breshkovskaya, Yekaterina, ref 1
Brest-Litovsk: peace negotiations, ref 1, ref 2, ref 3; treaty, ref 1, ref 2, ref 3, ref 4, ref 5
Briand, Aristide, ref 1
Bristow, Mrs, ref 1
Britain: ref 1, ref 2; anti-war socialists in, ref 1; and Archangel, ref 1, ref 2; blockade of German ports, ref 1, ref 2, ref 3; Bolsheviks in, ref 1, ref 2, ref 3; communism, ref 1; diplomacy, ref 1, ref 2; diplomatic links with Russia, ref 1, ref 2; Empire, ref 1, ref 2, ref 3, ref 4; and German U-boat activity, ref 1, ref 2; and ‘Hands off Russia’ movement, ref 1, ref 2, ref 3; Labour Party, ref 1, ref 2, ref 3, ref 4, ref 5, ref 6, ref 7, ref 8; Labour Party: delegation trip to Volga region, ref 1, ref 2, ref 3, ref 4; the Lockhart plot, ref 1, ref 2, ref 3, ref 4, ref 5, ref 6, ref 7; and Murmansk, ref 1, ref 2, ref 3; and political prisoners, ref 1; press, ref 1, ref 2, ref 3, ref 4, ref 5, ref 6, ref 7; and the Romanovs, ref 1, ref 2; and Russian participation in WW1, ref 1, ref 2, ref 3; and Ru
ssian political refugees, ref 1; Secret Service, ref 1, ref 2, ref 3; Secret Service: and Stalin, ref 1; Secret Service: Arthur Ransome, ref 1, ref 2, ref 3; Secret Service: George Hill, ref 1, ref 2; Secret Service: Paul Dukes, ref 1; Secret Service: Sidney Reilly, ref 1, ref 2, ref 3; support for anti-Bolsheviks, ref 1; trade with Russia, ref 1, ref 2, ref 3, ref 4, ref 5, ref 6, ref 7, ref 8, ref 9, ref 10, ref 11; the Triple Entente, ref 1; and Trotsky, ref 1; see also diplomatic roles; Western Allies
British Empire, ref 1, ref 2, ref 3, ref 4
British Foreign Office: and Kamenev, ref 1, ref 2; and Litvinov, ref 1; and the Lockhart Plot, ref 1; and Western Allies support for Russia, ref 1
British-Russian Club, London, ref 1
British Socialist Party, ref 1
Brusilov, Alexei, ref 1, ref 2, ref 3
Bryant, Louise: and American sub-committee on Russian propaganda, ref 1; background, ref 1; and Bessie Beatty, ref 1; booklets on Russia published, ref 1; courier for Soviet government, ref 1; and death of John Reed, ref 1; and fall of Provisional Government, ref 1; interview with Krasin, ref 1; loss of job with Philadelphia Public Ledger, ref 1; marriage to John Reed, ref 1; and Senate Committee on Bolshevik propaganda, ref 1; and Soviet propaganda in America, ref 1; speech at Madison Square Gardens, ref 1; travel to Russia delay, ref 1; on Trotsky, ref 1; and Trotsky, ref 1, ref 2; and Yakov Peters, ref 1, ref 2; postscript, ref 1
Buchanan, Sir George: and Ambassador Francis, ref 1; and detention of Trotsky in Halifax, ref 1; granted sick leave, ref 1, ref 2; and imprisonment of Chicherin and Petrov, ref 1, ref 2; language skills of, ref 1; and Lockhart, ref 1; and question of support for Russia, ref 1, ref 2; postscript, ref 1
Buchan, John, ref 1
Buckler, W. H., ref 1
Budberg, Moura, see Benckendorff, Moura
Buford (ship), ref 1
Buikis, Jan, ref 1
Bukharin, Nikolai: ref 1; and changes in contemporary capitalism, ref 1; and collective farms, ref 1; and Comintern congress, ref 1; on communism, ref 1, ref 2; and French offer of military assistance, ref 1; ill health of, ref 1; and Ioffe, ref 1; and Liebknecht, ref 1; and the March Action, ref 1, ref 2; and peace treaty with Central Powers, ref 1, ref 2; and planning of international communist congress, ref 1; and Pravda, ref 1; and repressive measures, ref 1; and Spartakusbund congress, ref 1
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