Spies and Commissars: Bolshevik Russia and the West by Robert Service – reviewIn our age of many so-called "revolutions", it is good to be reminded what a real revolution tastes like: not simply the removal of a ruler but the complete overthrow of the social, economic and political structures. Robert Service's new book revels in the sheer exuberance of the first months of Russia's 1917 upheavals, with the new leaders "cheerfully smashing institutions to smithereens". As he
