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Russia...is a riddle, wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma.
Winston Churchill's words were never truer than in 1917, when the Russian Revolution morphed with dizzying speed from the orderly abdication of the Tsar to the barbaric murder of his entire family, and the violent seizure of power by Lenin s Bolsheviks.
Yet the outside world was slow to grasp what was happening. Russia had long seemed due for change, and the western European powers were eager to keep the new Soviet state as an ally in the war against Germany. Politicians and public alike were unaware that a reign of terror unequalled since the French Revolution was gripping a nation the size of a continent.
It was left to a handful of British adventurers to expose the brutality of a new order which was to shake western democracy to its very foundations. Who were these whistle-blowers? Some were diplomats or spies; others were scholars, novelists or journalists; one was a clergyman. Then there were the English governesses: young women hired to look after the scions of aristocratic Russian families, yet who suddenly found themselves living in perilous circumstances, their employers sworn enemies of a murderous new regime.
John Ure, who himself lived as a diplomat in Russia and knew several of these extraordinary men and women personally, brings their stories unforgettably to life. Once again (in the words of The Sunday Times) 'his adventurous spirit sweeps across continents and through history'.
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'Knowledgeable, vivid, enlightening and, above all, very human'
JOHN LE CARRE on BEWARE THE RUGGED RUSSIAN BEAR
'Anyone with red blood in his or her veins will be stirred by these stories'
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