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Russian Roulette : How British Spies Thwarted Lenin's Plot for Global Revolution
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- Type
- HARDCOVER BOOK
- Signed
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- Ex Libris
- No
- Narrative Type
- Nonfiction
- Personalized
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- Features
- Dust Jacket, Illustrated, Unabridged
- Country/Region of Manufacture
- United States
- Intended Audience
- Adults
- Inscribed
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- Edition
- First Edition
- Vintage
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- ISBN
- 9781620405680
- Book Title
- Russian Roulette : How British Spies Thwarted Lenin's Plot for Global Revolution
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Publishing USA
- Item Length
- 9.5 in
- Publication Year
- 2014
- Format
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- Illustrator
- Yes
- Item Height
- 1.3 in
- Genre
- Biography & Autobiography, History, Political Science
- Topic
- Russia & the Former Soviet Union, Intelligence & Espionage, International Relations / General, Political
- Item Weight
- 24.1 Oz
- Item Width
- 6.4 in
- Number of Pages
- 400 Pages
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In 1917, a band of communist revolutionaries stormed the Winter Palace of Tsar Nicholas II-a dramatic and explosive act marking that Vladimir Lenin's communist revolution was now underway. But Lenin would not be satisfied with overthrowing the Tsar. His goal was a global revolt that would topple all Western capitalist regimes-starting with the British Empire. Russian Roulette tells the spectacular and harrowing story of the British spies in revolutionary Russia and their mission to stop Lenin's red tide from washing across the free world. They were an eccentric cast of characters, led by Mansfield Cumming, a one-legged, monocle-wearing former sea captain, and included novelist W. Somerset Maugham, beloved children's author Arthur Ransome, and the dashing, ice-cool Sidney Reilly, the legendary Ace of Spies and a model for Ian Fleming's James Bond. Cumming's network would pioneer the field of covert action and would one day become MI6. Living in disguise, constantly switching identities, they infiltrated Soviet commissariats, the Red Army, and Cheka (the feared secret police), and would come within a whisker of assassinating Lenin. In a sequence of bold exploits that stretched from Moscow to the central Asian city of Tashkent, this unlikely band of agents succeeded in foiling Lenin's plot for global revolution.
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Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN-10
1620405687
ISBN-13
9781620405680
eBay Product ID (ePID)
172854907
Product Key Features
Book Title
Russian Roulette : How British Spies Thwarted Lenin's Plot for Global Revolution
Number of Pages
400 Pages
Language
English
Publication Year
2014
Topic
Russia & the Former Soviet Union, Intelligence & Espionage, International Relations / General, Political
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
Biography & Autobiography, History, Political Science
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
Item Height
1.3 in
Item Weight
24.1 Oz
Item Length
9.5 in
Item Width
6.4 in
Additional Product Features
Dewey Edition
23
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2014-415783
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Dewey Decimal
327.1241/04709041
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Ub271.G7m55 2014
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