Russian roulette:

Milton, Giles

Russian roulette: a deadly game how British spies thwarted Lenin's global plot - Sceptre 2013 - xiv, 378 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates

Includes bibliographical references and index

1917, post-Russian Revolution, an unlikely and eccentric band of British spies are smuggled into newly Soviet Russia to thwart Lenin's plan to destroy British rule in India, as a precursor to toppling the democracies of the West. The spies, under Mansfield Cumming, were the unsung founders of the present-day MI6.

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Lenin 1870-1924 Vladimir Ilich
Cumming 1859-1923 Sir Mansfield


Espionage, British--Soviet Union


Soviet Union--History--Influence--Revolution, 1917-1921
Soviet Union--Foreign relations--1917-1945

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