When Britain Invaded Soviet Russia

1979, Andrew Rothstein's account of Douglas Young, "the Consul who rebelled"

Author

Andrew Rothstein

Publisher

The Journeyman Press, London, 1979

Printing Details

First edition. Paperback. 21.5 × 13.5cm, 140pp.

In 1917 the workers and peasants of Russia rose against the tsarist dictatorship and established the world’s first workers’ state. With Britain in the lead, the imperialist powers launched a ruthless military intervention in support of the Russian militarists, landowners and capitalists, in an effort to destroy the new-born socialist state and restore the old regime.

Andrew Rothstein’s book relates the history of the imperialist powers’ moves against the Russian revolution, and shows the key role played by the British government—especially Lloyd George and the war-mongering Winston Churchill. But the special focus of this fascinating and original study is the story of Douglas Young, the British Consul at Archangel in 1917/18. Young is the consul who rebelled against his masters’ brutal counter-revolutionary policy and especially against the—to him—shocking duplicity with which the Foreign Office conducted its diplomacy.

Condition

Good condition, with some creasing and bumping to the covers. The inner binding is secure but where the photographs are bound in, it looks like the binding could crack open very easily so should be handled with a little care.