D'une révolution spontanée à la prise du pouvoir bolchévique, se créent en quelques mois les conditions du succès d'une minorité dont l'action converge en septembre et octobre 1917 vers des aspirations de paix et de liberté. Cette année 1917 marque le début d'un processus entamé…
Aged 25, Lockhart became the British Vice-Consul to Moscow in 1912. In 1918 he was charged with establishing a diplomatic understanding with the Bolsheviks, to ensure that Russia remained in the war against Germany. Then he was falsely accused of a counter-revolutionary plot to …
When first published in 1932, this memoir was an immediate classic, both as a unique eyewitness account of Revolutionary Russia and as one man's story of struggle, and tragedy set against the background of great events. Aged 25, Lockhart became the British Vice-Consul to Moscow …