Spies and Commissars

Biography, p. 290.

32. The Unextinguished Fire

1. A. Poliakoff, The Silver Samovar: Reminiscences of the Russian Revolution, p. 40.

2. A. L. Strong, The First Time in History: Two Years of Russia’s New Life (August 1921 to December 1923), p. 15.

3. Ibid.

4. I. Litvinov, typed transcription of taped conversation in 1960 about settling in Russia, p. 10: Ivy Litvinov Papers (HIA), box 10, folder 3.

5. Ibid., p. 11.

6. Frank E. Mason, dispatch of 31 May 1921: Frank E. Mason Papers (HIA), box 2, pp. 68–9.

7. Dayton Journal, 4 July 1920. Mason’s articles were widely syndicated in the US.

8. I. Litvinov, untitled autobiographical fragment, p. 5: St Antony’s RESC Archive.

9. I. Litvinov, autobiographical fragment, ‘Moscow 1921’, pp. 5 and 7: St Antony’s RESC Archive.

10. I. Litvinov, ‘Oral History’, p. 1: Ivy Litvinov Papers (HIA), box 1.

11. Ibid.

12. I. Litvinov, transcription of taped conversation in 1960 about settling in Russia, p. 5: Ivy Litvinov Papers (HIA), box 10, folder 3.

13. Ibid., pp. 8–9.

14. Ibid., p. 10.

15. Ibid., p. 3.

16. M. E. Harrison, Marooned in Moscow: The Story of an American Woman Imprisoned in Russia, p. 247.

17. R. Service, Lenin: A Political Life, vol. 3, pp. 247–8.

18. I. Litvinov, ‘Mysli o nevozrashchenii iz Ameriki, 1942’: Ivy Litvinov Papers (HIA), box 10, folder 3, p. 1.

19. V. A. Maklakov to B. A. Bakhmetev, 7 December 1920: ‘Sovershenno lichno i doveritel’no!’: B. A. Bakhmetev–V. A. Maklakov: perepiska, vol. 1, p. 300.

20. B. A. Bakhmetev to V. A. Maklakov, 20 January 1920: ibid., p. 152.

21. See the revelation of the leadership’s assumptions in Zinoviev’s speech (confidential printed version) to the joint plenum of the Central Committee and the Central Control Commission of 29 July–9 August 1927: RGASPI, f. 17, op. 2, d. 317 (V-iii), p. 22.

Postscript

1. I. Litvinov, ‘Oral History: Ivy Litvinov’, pp. 6–10: Ivy Litvinov Papers (HIA), box 1; ‘Being English in Moscow’, pp. 7–8: box 9, folder 9.

2. J. Carswell, The Exile: A Life of Ivy Litvinov, pp. 190 and 203.

3. M. Philips Price, My Three Revolutions.

4. J. Reed, Ten Days that Shook the World (Boni & Liveright: New York, 1922).

5. Dzh. Rid, 10 dnei, kotorye potryasli mir (2nd corrected edn; Krasnaya nov’: Moscow, 1924).

6. B. D. Wolfe, ‘Mr K’s Favorite Reporter’, New York Times, 5 June 1960.

7. RGASPI, f. 89, op. 28, d. 5, p. 8: meeting with Komsomol delegation, 13 January 1961.

8. M. E. Harrison, Marooned in Moscow: The Story of an American Woman Imprisoned in Russia, pp. 193–4.

9. A. Dunois, unpublished typescript introduction (May 1941) to an edition of Sadoul’s letters, p. 4: Jacques Sadoul Papers (HIA).

10. M. E. Harrison, Marooned in Moscow, pp. 194–5.

11. V. Serge, Memoirs of a Revolutionary, 1901–1941, p. 145.

12. PFR.301/D.S.10: National Archives, KV/2/1904.

13. R. Chambers, The Last Englishman: The Double Life of Arthur Ransome, p. 363.

14. S. G. Reilly to P. Dukes, 23 October 1922: Robert Hamilton Bruce Lockhart Papers (HIA), box 6, folder 22.

15. P. Dukes, Come Hammer, Come Sickle! (Cassell: London, 1947).

16. Paul Dukes Papers (HIA), boxes 1 and 2. On the accident, see the letter from Mrs Tina Forbes to Mr Lacy, 16 October 1969, in box 1.

17. G. A. Hill, ‘Reminiscences of Four Years with the N.K.V.D.’, p. 121: draft typescript, George A. Hill Papers (HIA).

18. Ibid., p. 2.

19. Ibid., p. 158.

20. Ibid., pp. 137–43.

21. Ibid., pp. 156–7.

22. Robert Hamilton Bruce Lockhart Papers (HIA), box 11, folder ‘George Hill Legal Documents’.

23. A. Cook, On His Majesty’s Secret Service: Sidney Reilly — Codename ST1, pp. 96–7.

24. Robin Bruce Lockhart’s notes taken from George Hill’s account to him, pp. 2–3: Robert Hamilton Bruce Lockhart Papers, box 11, folder 1.

25. S. G. Reilly and Pepita Bobadilla, The Adventures of Sidney Reilly, Britain’s Master Spy (E. Mathews & Marrot: London, 1931); R. N. Bruce Lockhart, Ace of Spies.

26. Reilly — Ace of Spies (Thames TV, 1983).

27. British Agent (dir. M. Curtiz: Warner Brothers, 1934).

28. R. H. Bruce Lockhart, notebooks (apparently 1938–1945): Robert Hamilton Bruce Lockhart Papers (HIA), box 4, folder 3.

29. Cablegram (n.d.) to R. H. Bruce Lockhart at the Daily Express: ibid., box 10.

30. R. H. Bruce Lockhart, Friends, Foes and Foreigners, p. 274.

31. R. H. Bruce Lockhart, ‘Baroness Budberg’ (n.d. but after 1956), pp. 5–6: Robert Hamilton Bruce Lockhart Papers (HIA), box 6, folder 14.

32. T. Alexander, An Estonian Childhood, pp. 69–71 and 74.

33. Ibid., p. 122.

34. R. H. Bruce Lockhart, ‘Baroness Budberg’, pp. 1–13: Robert Hamilton Bruce Lockhart Papers (HIA), box 6, folder 14.

35. D. Collingridge, ‘Aunt Moura’, The Times, 2 May 2010. Dmitri Collingridge is a great-great-nephew of Moura Budberg.

36. Merian C. Cooper Papers (HIA).

37. R. B. Spence, ‘The Tragic Fate of Kalamatiano: America’s Man in Moscow’, International Journal of Intelligence and Counterintelligence, no. 3 (1999), pp. 356–63.

38. Robin Bruce Lockhart to G. A. Hill (n.d.), recounting what Paul Dukes had told him: Robert Hamilton