Robert Service is one of this country’s leading authorities on the history of the Soviet Union. He is the author of biographies of Lenin, Trotsky and Stalin. His new book, “Spies and Commissars: Bolshevik Russia and the West” (Macmillan, £25), deals with the early years of the USSR and the westerners who either supported it or sought to undermine it.
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