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Auteur(s) : Madeira, Victor
Titre(s) : Britannia and the bear [Texte imprimé] : the Anglo-Russian intelligence wars, 1917-1929 / Victor Madeira
Publication : Woodbridge, Suffolk (GB) : The Boydell Press, copyright 2014
Description matérielle : 1 vol. (XXI-317 p.) : illustrations ; 25 cm
Collection : History of British Intelligence, ISSN 1756-5685 ; 4
Lien à la collection : History of British intelligence
Note(s) : Includes bibliographical references (pages 263-284) and index
Decades before the Berlin Wall went up, a Cold War had already begun raging. But for
Bolshevik Russia, Great Britain - not America - was the enemy. Now, for the first
time, Victor Madeira tells a story that has been hidden away for nearly a century.
Drawing on over sixty Russian, British and French archival collections, this book
offers a compelling new narrative about how two great powers of the time did battle,
both openly and in the shadows. By exploring British and Russian mind-sets of the
time this book traces the links between wartime social unrest, growing trade unionism
in the police and the military, and Moscow's subsequent infiltration of Whitehall.
As early as 1920, Cabinet ministers were told that Bolshevik intelligence wanted to
recruit university students from prominent families destined for government, professional
and intellectual circles. Yet despite these early warnings, men such as the Cambridge
Five slipped the security net fifteen years after the alarm was first raised. This
book tells the story of Russian espionage in Britain in these critical interwar years
and reveals how British Government identified crucial lessons but failed to learn
many of them. The book underscores the importance of the first Cold War in understanding
the second, as well as the need for historical perspective in interpreting the mind-sets
of rival powers
Sujet(s) : Relations extérieures -- Grande-Bretagne -- URSS
Relations extérieures -- URSS -- 1917-1945
Espionnage soviétique -- Grande-Bretagne -- 1900-1945
Indice(s) Dewey :
940.5 (23e éd.) = Histoire - Europe - 1918-....
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 9781843838951. - ISBN 1843838958 (rel.)
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb45665854s
Notice n° :
FRBNF45665854
(notice reprise d'un réservoir extérieur)
Table des matières : pt. I First Symptoms ; 1. The Committee ; 2. The Mutinies ; pt. II Diagnosis
; 3. The Agreement ; 4. The Fall ; pt. III Shock Therapy ; 5. The Letter ; 6.
The Strike ; 7. The Raids.
