Lockhart - British Agent (real-life James Bond Meets The Bolshevik Revolution) (1933)

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This is R. H. Bruce Lockhart's amazing book British Agent (1933) which tells the author's first-hand account of the Bolshevik revolution and his attempts to subvert it when it was obvious that it all went wrong. Lockhart was just 25 when he became the British Vice-Consul to Moscow in 1912. With revolution in the air, it was an exciting but dangerous place to be. The 'Boy Ambassador' became an eyewitness to events that shook the world, and in 1918 was given the task of establishing a diplomatic understanding with the Bolsheviks, to ensure that Russia remained in the war against Germany. It proved a precarious mission as Whitehall could not be seen to be supporting the revolutionaries. Soon Lockhart grew wary of the secret machinations of his masters, while Lenin and Trotsky's cordial relations with the British agent never quite dispelled their mistrust of the nation he represented. In September 1918 he would be falsely accused of a counter-revolutionary plot to overthrow the Bolsheviks, and sent to the notorious Loubianka prison. Lockhart's remarkable account of his experiences, first published in 1932, inspired a Hollywood movie and made him a household name on both sides of the Atlantic. From the evocative descriptions of revolutionary Moscow, where the champagne flowed even as the bourgeoisie trembled, to his candid audiences with Trotsky and his brushes with death, British Agent reveals the exploits of one of the most brilliant men of his generation. He was also associated with some of Britain's intelligence professionals as well, secretly serving as more of a diplomatic James Bond rather anything else. He also had contacts with the Cheka (the Soviet Union's first secret police) and he describes in detail some of the day-to-day scenes playing out in Russia at the time. The author gives us his insights into Russian culture and politics during the last years of Tzarist rule, the circumstances of Russia's participation in World War I, and Russia's descent into Bolshevism. He came to love the Russian people and consider Moscow his home while he witnessed the last Tzar unwittingly ensure his own downfall and the succeeding Provisional Government inevitably fail. He gives an honest account of the errors in British and Allied policies during these precarious years in Russia. We get a close-up view of the eternal rift between diplomatic knowledge and political imperative. And we witness history repeating itself when foreign policies are adopted for political, not logical, reasons, and so inevitably fail. British Agent is a supremely literate and insightful first-hand account of the fascinating and turbulent time in Russia that gave birth to the Soviet Union through the eyes of a foreigner who knew many prominent members of both the Tzarist and Bolshevik regimes personally. Lockhart manages to convey great sympathy for Russians of various ideologies while at the same time speaking bluntly of their shortcomings. Rarely has a book that is so informative been so entertaining. What makes this interesting reading is Lockhart's experiences in Russia - the views of a westerner. Lockhart was an insider working with minimal direction from London, serving in an extremely dangerous place given what was going on in Moscow and Petrograd. One of the best books that deals with the Russian Revolution - from someone who was actually there - and it's not a novel although it reads like one. 215 pages. A must read for everyone.

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