1. M. E. Harrison, Marooned in Moscow: The Story of an American Woman Imprisoned in Russia, p. 61.
2. Ibid., pp. 57–8.
3. Tsentral’noe byuro po obsluzhivaniyu inostrantsev v Moskve pri NKInoDel (Byurobin): Russian Subject Collection (HIA), box 13, folder 12.
4. E. Goldman, My Disillusionment in Russia (Doubleday, Page: New York, 1923); E. Goldman to B. Russell, 8 July 1922: B. Russell, The Autobiography of Bertrand Russell, 1914– 1944, p. 174.
5. British Labour Delegation to Russia, 1920: Report (Trades Union Congress and Labour Party: London, 1920), p. 3.
6. Mrs P. Snowden, Through Bolshevik Russia (Cassell: London, 1920), p. 8; Manchester Guardian, 28 April 1920.
7. V. I. Lenin, Neizvestnye dokumenty, 1891–1922, pp. 332–3.
8. Manchester Guardian, 15 May 1920; Mrs P. Snowden, Through Bolshevik Russia, pp. 7–8.
9. The Times, 28 April 1920.
10. B. Russell, The Autobiography of Bertrand Russell, 1914–1944, p. 141.
11. Mrs P. Snowden, Through Bolshevik Russia, p. 32.
12. D. Debrestian, ‘On the Origin of the Term “Iron Curtain” ’, Washington Post, 26 September 1991.
13. Ibid., p. 8.
14. Ibid., p. 30.
15. Manchester Guardian, 21 May 1920.
16. Mrs P. Snowden, Through Bolshevik Russia, p. 50.
17. Ibid., p. 55.
18. Ibid., p. 66.
19. J. S. Clarke, Pen Portraits of Russia under the ‘Red Terror’, p. 49. Clarke laughed at his friend’s Paisley brogue but he himself didn’t get right the Russian word for ‘I understand’ (ponimayu).
20. Ibid., pp. 56–7.
21. Ibid., p. 92.
22. M. E. Harrison, Marooned in Moscow, p. 223.
23. Ibid., p. 181.
24. Ibid., p. 171.
25. Manchester Guardian, 2 June 1920.
26. Ibid., 7 June 1920.
27. V. I. Lenin, Pis’mo k angliiskim rabochim in Polnoe sobranie sochinenii, vol. 41, p. 125.
28. New York Times, 23 July 1920.
29. Mrs P. Snowden, Through Bolshevik Russia, p. 180.
30. A. Ransome, ‘Lenin in 1919’, in A. Rhys Williams, Lenin: The Man and his Work, pp. 167–8.
31. Ibid., p. 168.
32. Ibid., p. 173.
33. Mrs P. Snowden, Through Bolshevik Russia, p. 117.
34. Ibid., p. 76.
35. Ibid., pp. 75 and 117.
36. Ibid., pp. 76–7.
37. Manchester Guardian, 29 July 1920.
38. Ibid., 12 July 1920.
39. Ibid., 1 July 1920.
40. Mrs P. Snowden, Through Bolshevik Russia, p. 116.
41. Manchester Guardian, 29 July 1920.
42. Ibid.
43. Mrs P. Snowden, Through Bolshevik Russia, pp. 137–8.
44. T. Alexander, An Estonian Childhood, p. 120.
45. H. G. Wells, Russia in the Shadows, p. 139.
46. Ibid., p. 158.
47. C. Sheridan, Naked Truth, pp. 151–2.
48. Ibid., p. 156.
49. C. Sheridan to W. S. Churchill, 23 January 1921: Churchill Papers, CHAR 1/138.
50. C. Sheridan, Mayfair to Moscow: Clare Sheridan’s Diary, pp. 12–13.
51. C. Sheridan, Naked Truth, pp. 157–9.
52. Ibid., pp. 160–1.
53. ‘Woman Sculptor Tells Impression of Soviet Chiefs’, New York Times, 23 November 1920. This excerpt from Clare Sheridan’s ‘diary’ is not contained in the version published as a book.
54. I. Litvinov, autobiographical fragment, ‘Moscow 1921’, pp. 5 and 7: St Antony’s RESC Archive.
55. C. Sheridan, From Mayfair to Moscow: Clare Sheridan’s Diary, p. 82.
56. Mrs P. Snowden, Through Bolshevik Russia, p. 76.
57. C. Sheridan, Naked Truth, p. 192.
58. Ibid., pp. 193–4.
59. Ibid., p. 194.
60. Ibid., p. 195.
61. C. Sheridan, Mayfair to Moscow: Clare Sheridan’s Diary, p. 156.
62. C. Sheridan, Naked Truth, p. 196.
63. Ibid., p. 197.
64. C. Sheridan, Mayfair to Moscow: Clare Sheridan’s Diary, pp. 142–3.
65. C. Sheridan to W. S. Churchill, 23 January 1921: Churchill Papers, CHAR 1/138.
66. W. S. Churchill to C. Sheridan, 21 April 1921: ibid.
67. C. Sheridan to W. S. Churchill, April 1921: Churchill Papers, CHAR 1/138.
68. British Labour Delegation to Russia, 1920: Report, p. 27.
69. Ibid.
70. H. G. Wells, Russia in the Shadows, p. 64.
71. Ibid., pp. 83–4.
72. Ibid., pp. 107–8.
73. The Times, 8 December 1920.
74. B. Russell, The Practice and Theory of Bolshevism, p. 42.
75. Ibid.
76. B. Russell to O. Morrell, 25 June 1920: B. Russell, The Autobiography of Bertrand Russell,
