Boris Volodarsky

The threat from Russia’s spies has only increased since the fall of Communism

A review of Britannia and the Bear, by Victor Madeira. This survey of interwar Soviet spying offers many lessons on how we deal with Putin’s Russia

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issue 02 August 2014
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  • Britannia and the Bear

    Victor Madeira

    The Boydell Press, pp. 339

‘No, we must go our own way,’ said Lenin.  The whole world knows him as Vladimir, while he was in fact Nikolai. ‘Nikolai Lenin’ was the party alias of Vladimir Ilyich Ulianov, a terrorist leader and psychopath whose ideas changed the history of the greater part of the 20th century.

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