LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

Illustrations can be found after page 218

1. Lenin in deep thought. (© Getty Images)

2. Trotsky in his Red Army uniform. (© Getty Images)

3. An encounter between German and Russian troops in the neutral zone. (Hoover Institution Archives)

4. Living quarters of the peace talks delegations at Brest-Litovsk. (Hoover Institution Archives)

5. The peace talks at Brest-Litovsk before Trotsky joined them. (Topfoto)

6. Sir George Buchanan. (National Portrait Gallery)

7. David Francis. (St Louis Public Library)

8. Joseph Noulens. (Roger-Viollet)

9. Cheka leaders Felix Dzerzhinski and Yakov Peters. (© Getty Images)

10. Leaders of the People’s Commissariat of Foreign Affairs abroad in Berlin in 1922. (Roger-Viollet/Rex)

11. Bukharin. (By kind permission of Harry Shukman)

12. John Reed. (© Getty Images)

13. Louise Bryant. (© Getty Images)

14. Sylvia Pankhurst. (By kind permission of Harry Shukman)

15. A 1919 anti-Spartacist and anti-Bolshevik German poster depicting a Spartacist murdering a family. (© Getty Images)

16. A poster offering 10,000 marks for the arrest of Karl Radek. (By kind permission of Harry Shukman)

17. The Spartacists get themselves organized in January 1919. (Hoover Institution Archives)

18. André Marty. (By kind permission of Harry Shukman)

19. Kamenev. (By kind permission of Harry Shukman)

20. Béla Kun. (© Getty Images)

21. Robert Bruce Lockhart. (Corbis)

22. Moura Budberg. (© The Estate of Tania Alexander)

23. Sidney Reilly. (Alamy)

24. Clare Sheridan and son. (© Getty Images)

25. A Ukrainian recruitment poster for the Red Cavalry. (© Getty Images)

26. A White Army regiment operating in Siberia in early 1920. (© Getty Images)

27. An anti-Bolshevik Cossack unit during the Civil War. (© Getty Images)

28. General Anton Denikin. (© Getty Images)

29. Sir Paul Dukes. (Hoover Institution Archives)

30. Agent ST25, also known as Paul Dukes, in one of his operational disguises. (Hoover Institution Archives)

31. Food pails being carried for distribution during the Civil War in 1919. (© Getty Images)

32. Turin workers rise against capitalism in 1920. (By kind permission of Harry Shukman)

33. Leaders and militants of the Communist Party of Great Britain in the early 1920s. (By kind permission of Harry Shukman)

34. The Italian delegation to the Second Comintern Congress in July 1920. (By kind permission of Harry Shukman)

35. Arthur Ransome. (Brotherton Collection)

36. Yevgenia Shelepina. (Brotherton Collection)

37. Willie Gallacher. (By kind permission of Harry Shukman)

38. Tanks on the streets of Glasgow during the strikes of early 1919. (By kind permission of Harry Shukman)

39. Red Army POWs in Finnish captivity. (By kind permission of Harry Shukman)

40. Session of the Congress of the Peoples of the East in Baku in September 1920. (By kind permission of Harry Shukman)

41. Leading delegates to the Third Comintern Congress ( June–July 1921) gather under the joint statue of Marx and Engels. (By kind permission of Harry Shukman)

42. The Soviet delegation to the talks at Genoa and Rapallo in April 1922. (© Getty Images)

43. Joseph Stalin speaking in mourning for Lenin, January 1924. (© Getty Images)