Spies and Commissars

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 Russian 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

Bulak-Balakhovich, Stanislav, ref 1, ref 2

Bulgaria, ref 1, ref 2, ref 3, ref 4, ref 5, ref 6

Bullitt, William C.: background, ref 1; as emissary to Moscow, ref 1, ref 2; encouraged by Felix Frankfurter, ref 1; and gaining information, ref 1; letter to Lansing, ref 1; letter to Wilson, ref 1; and Lloyd George, ref 1; marriage to Louise Bryant, ref 1; and Nuorteva, ref 1, ref 2; outcome of Moscow visit, ref 1; in the State Department, ref 1, ref 2; resignation from State Department, ref 1; postscript, ref 1

Bureau of International Revolutionary Propaganda, ref 1

Buxton, Charles Roden, ref 1, ref 2

Cachin, Marcel, ref 1

Callaghan, Margaret Reilly, ref 1

Call (magazine), ref 1

Camber Higgs, William, ref 1, ref 2, ref 3

Canada, ref 1, ref 2

Cantacuzene, Princess, ref 1

capitalism, ref 1, ref 2, ref 3, ref 4, ref 5, ref 6, ref 7, ref 8; American view of, ref 1; Bolshevik view of, ref 1, ref 2, ref 3, ref 4, ref 5, ref 6, ref 7, ref 8, ref 9; Bolshevik view of, in America, ref 1, ref 2; Bolshevik view of, in Europe, ref 1, ref 2; Bolshevik view of Provisional Government, ref 1; ‘finance capitalism’, ref 1; and Germany, ref 1, ref 2, ref 3, ref 4, ref 5, ref 6, ref 7; and higher standard of living, ref 1, ref 2; and Italy, ref 1; and Marxist theory, ref 1, ref 2; in report of Labour delegation, ref 1; and Russian economy, ref 1, ref 2, ref 3, ref 4, ref 5, ref 6, ref 7, ref 8; and Russian economy: American view of, ref 1; and Trotsky, ref 1, ref 2, ref 3

Carson, Sir Edward, ref 1

Castro, Fidel, ref 1

Cecil, Lord Robert, ref 1, ref 2, ref 3, ref 4

Central Committee of Bolsheviks: and Brest-Litovsk talks, ref 1, ref 2, ref 3, ref 4; and Brest-Litovsk treaty: Germany’s continued advances, ref 1; and conditional support for Provisional Government, ref 1; and demonstration against government policy, ref 1; and discussions for socialist coalition, ref 1; establishment of the Politburo, ref 1; and Georgia, ref 1; and intelligence activity, ref 1; and Lenin, ref 1; Lenin puts case for an uprising, ref 1; majority of supporters of Lenin in, ref 1, ref 2; and oil concessions in Baku, ref 1; and Poland, ref 1, ref 2; and trade with Britain,