See G. Gorodetsky, The Precarious Truce: Anglo-Soviet Relations, 1924-27 ( Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1977); S.R. Graubard, British Labour and the Russian Revolution, 1917-1924 (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1956); and S. White, Britain and the Bolshevik Revolution: A Study in the Politics of Diplomacy, 1920-24 (London: Macmillan, 1980 ).
2.
W. P. and Zelda Coates, A History of Anglo-Soviet Relations (London; Lawrence and Wise-hart, 2 vols, 1953 and 1958). These two volumes cover Anglo-Soviet relations until the mid-1950s.
3.
The book which emerged from these thoughts will be published later this year by Macmillan. See F.S. Northedge, Britain and Soviet Communism: The Impact of a Revolution (London: Macmillan , 1982). I would like to acknowledge the assistance of Audrey Wells in preparing the book.
4.
George Kennan, Russia and the West under Lenin and Stalin (Boston: Little, Brown and Co., 1960, 1961), Chapter One.
5.
Viscount Cecil, All the Way (London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1949), p.159.
6.
Point Six of the Fourteen Points.
7.
Winston Churchill, The World Crisis: The Aftermath (London: Butterworth, 1929), pp. 24-5.
8.
Sir Llewellyn Woodward, British Foreign Policy in the Second World War (London : HMSO, 1971), Vol.2, p.232.
9.
H.C. Deb, 5s. Col.69 (9 September 1941).
10.
Sir Llewellyn Woodward, op. cit, p.232.
11.
H.C. Deb. 5s Col. 1409 (21 March 1918).
12.
The Earl of Avon, The Eden Memoirs: Facing the Dictators (London: Cassell, 1962 ), Chapter Six.
13.
Documents on International Affairs1938 (London: Royal Institute of International Affairs), Vol.2, p.261.
14.
David Dilks (ed.), The Diaries of Sir Alexander Cadogan, 1938-1945 (London: Cassell, 1971), p.166.
15.
Quoted in Sidney Aster, The Making of the Second World War (London: Deutsch, 1973 ), p.273.
16.
Winston Churchill , The Second World War, Vol.III, The Grand Alliance (London: Cassell, 1950), p.337.
17.
Admiral W.D.Leahy, I. Was There (London: Gollancz, 1950), p.442.
18.
For the Western security offer, see, 'Miscellaneous No.2' GenevaConference, 1855, Cmd.9633, Annex I, pp.99-101.
