Contents
Introduction: Paths Cross on the Jaroslaw Dabrowski
Part I: CARRYING ON IN MISSOURI
1. Bullet’s big day
2. In the name of the common people
3. Prophecy and hindsight
Part II: FROM DRURY LANE TO THE THEATRE OF THE WEST (1914-1918)
4. First call
5. Dividing Europe’s horizon
6. The Belgian variation
7. In defence of otherness
Part III: WRAPPING RED RUSSIA (1917-20)
8. First delegation
9. Not just a frontier
10. Relocating the Allied blockade
11. Fact-finding with limousines
Part IV: THE BROKEN INTERNATIONAL (1921-1927)
12. The view from Locarno
13. Snapshots from a land of contrasts
14. Comrade Bukharin’s version
Part V: STALIN’S RING OF TRUST (1927-1939)
15. No end to the Potemkin complex
16. Friends against famine
17. Steeled minds and the God that failed
Part VI: SUCCESSION AND AFTERLIFE
18. Sliding back to Churchill
19. After the crossing
Afterword: Gone with the Berlin Wall?
Acknowledgements
Appendix 1: ‘Bach’s Christmas Music in England and in Germany’, by Vernon Lee
Appendix 2: ‘The Refreshment Room at Narva’, by Charles Roden Buxton
Notes
Index