Memoirs of a British Agent

First published in 1932, this memoir recounts R. H. Bruce Lockhart's years as a British consular official and unofficial intermediary in Russia. He describes pre-war Moscow merchant society, the collapse of 1917, and his return after the Bolshevik seizure of power to deal with Trotsky and other commissars over prisoners, propaganda, and possible contacts. The narrative follows the so-called Lockhart Plot, his arrest by the Cheka, confinement, and eventual exchange. Portraits of agents, journalists, and revolutionaries sit beside the daily confusion of a capital at war with itself. The book is a diplomatic memoir of revolution, not a general history of the civil war.

Bound in pages of monochrome photos. Quarter bound in dark blue buckram with pictorial covers. Blue slipcase and endpapers.