... The Russian Revolution and After New Books on a Gigantic Theme Alan Moorehead's Gallipoli was quite a little master piece of historical reconstruction ranging round a subject over which the fires of controversy had not yet died down. Now this talented ...

... books on the list are both concerned W aftermath of the 1914-18 War and in pa with the confused period of events a e Russian Revolution. ...

... old Dame Laura Knight. In fact almost everything at the Grosvenor underlines the paradox that Royal Academic ians and Russian revolution aries with avowedly opposite aims have arrived at the same uninspiring goal. The exhibi tion abounds in landscapes of ...

... confessing and Mr. Valk suddenly stills laughter with a moving appeal lrom the memory of the idealistic makers of the Russian revolution to the sympathy of the makers of the modern police state. There is just as much discomfiture in the embassy over the ...

... 42s.) is described on the outside as being about the Cold War from its origins in 1917. That is, it starts with the Russian Revolution. It is a narrative summary of the international political changes and ter giversations that have overtaken humanity ...

... securely banked in Europe. Her claim is at least proof that she cannot be the heroine of any play written before the Russian revolution. It would be easy else to suppose that we were being treated to a revival of some run-of- the-mill Edwardian drama which ...

... and curiously vivid book, written from diaries kept by the author when he was twelve years old and escaping from the Russian Revolution as brightly coloured and fiercely alarming as something out of the Arabian Nights. And anyone who really wants to know ...

... MILNE THE AWAKENED, by Zod Oldenbourg Gollancz 16s), a novel set in pre-war Paris among the refugees from Hitler and the Russian revolution, is big in several directions. It is long, it reflects events of world importance, and it shows everywhere the size ...

... high social position. He was an officer in a crack regiment and his relations were the glittering stars of Gotha. The Russian Revolution scattered, ruined and decimated them but life remained to be lived, friendships continued among the survivors of the ...

... now lives there hidden, under the protection of the Canadian Government, was born in Rostov-on-Don some time after the Russian revolution, and for twenty-five years was subjected to the full force of Communist indoctrination, becoming at length a responsible ...

... actively engaged tana tnat is sometning of an understatement) in both world wars and won his V.C. at the time of the Russian Revolution when, from the Coastal Motor Boat in his command, he sank the cruiser Oleg. H.M.S. Dorsetshire sunk by Japanese dive-bombers ...