The last Englishman: the double life of Arthur Ransome
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| adam_text | Contents
List of Illustrations
ix
Introduction
ι
ι
The Judgemental Professor
11
z
Education
z z
3
The Collingwoods
3
z
4
Bohemia
43
5 De Profundis 5 8
6
Escape
7z
7
War
83
8
The Elixir of Life and Old Peter
97
9
The Anglo-Russian Bureau
111
10
Revolution
12.3
11
Kerensky
140
ι ζ
Interlude
166
13
Bolsheviks i8z
14
Brest-Litovsk
191
15
The Fool of the World zo8
16
Stockholm Z3Z
17
Six Weeks Z58
18
No-man s-land Z74
19
The Anglo-Soviet Accord Z94
zo Racundra
31z
zi
Swallows and Amazons
330
z z
Captain Flint s Trunk
349
Note on Sources
3 67
Bibliography
371
Acknowledgements
377
Index
379
ARTHUR RANSOME was,
from
1930
to the
early
1960s,
what
J. K.
Rowling is today: the much-loved
author of a series of children s books that shaped the
imagination of a generation. Swallows and Amazons and
its sequels described a cosy, nostalgic Utopia, in which
Ransome s heroes had blameless fun in the Lake District,
sailing boats, pitching camp and playing at pirates.
Long before Swallows and Amazons was published,
however, there had been another Arthur Ransome,
famous for different reasons. Between 1917 and
1924,
as
Russian correspondent for the Daily News and Manchester
Guardian, he was an uncritical apologist for the Bolshevik
regime, with unique access to the revolutionary leaders.
As the Red Army engaged with an Allied invasion
of Russia, Ransome was conducting a love affair with
Evgenia Shelepina, private secretary to Leon Trotsky,
then Soviet Commissar for War. As the intimate friend
of Karl
Radek,
the Bolshevik Chief of Propaganda, he
denied the Red Terror and compared Lenin to Oliver
Cromwell. No English journalist was considered more
controversial, or more damaging to British security.
He only narrowly escaped prosecution for treason.
Yet as Ransome s passion for Evgenia deepened, he was
offering his services to the British government, both
as unofficial diplomat and as spy. Revealing a dizzying
ability to adapt himself to the nearest power, he insisted,
nevertheless, that he had retained absolute objectivity.
How did this
bluff, in
many ways conservative
Englishman, associated by millions with nothing more
threatening than messing about in boats, become such
an ardent defender of the Bolshevik experiment? Was
Ransome a double agent or, as he liked to insist, an
innocent go-between? Roland Chambers, in a masterly
narrative, explores Ransome s career as a struggling writer
in Edwardian London, his disastrous first marriage and
flight to Russia, and his remarkable high-wire act as
British agent and mouthpiece of the Bolsheviki . Later,
Ransome s triumph was to erase the entire episode
from the public consciousness, just as he erased all
uncomfortable episodes, including his relationship
with his only daughter.
This is an absorbing and often chilling examination
of an English icon and his world.
uk
£20.00
RRP
ROLAND CHAMBERS studied film and
literature in Poland and at New York University
before returning to England in
1998.
He has worked
as a private investigator specialising in Russian politics
and business. He lives in London. The Last Englishman
is his first biography.
De.ignbyFab«r
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Bmmann/CORBIS: Dirwent Wattr
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Е.О.
Hoppť/CORBIS;
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CORBIS
Author photograph
О
Dominic Young
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Contents
List of Illustrations
ix
Introduction
ι
ι
The Judgemental Professor
11
z
Education
z z
3
The Collingwoods
3
z
4
Bohemia
43
5 De Profundis 5 8
6
Escape
7z
7
War
83
8
The Elixir of Life and Old Peter
97
9
The Anglo-Russian Bureau
111
10
Revolution
12.3
11
Kerensky
140
ι ζ
Interlude
166
13
Bolsheviks i8z
14
Brest-Litovsk
191
15
The Fool of the World zo8
16
Stockholm Z3Z
17
Six Weeks Z58
18
No-man's-land Z74
19
The Anglo-Soviet Accord Z94
zo Racundra
31z
zi
Swallows and Amazons
330
z z
Captain Flint's Trunk
349
Note on Sources
3 67
Bibliography
371
Acknowledgements
377
Index
379
ARTHUR RANSOME was,
from
1930
to the
early
1960s,
what
J. K.
Rowling is today: the much-loved
author of a series of children's books that shaped the
imagination of a generation. Swallows and Amazons and
its sequels described a cosy, nostalgic Utopia, in which
Ransome's heroes had blameless fun in the Lake District,
sailing boats, pitching camp and playing at pirates.
Long before Swallows and Amazons was published,
however, there had been another Arthur Ransome,
famous for different reasons. Between 1917 and
1924,
as
Russian correspondent for the Daily News and Manchester
Guardian, he was an uncritical apologist for the Bolshevik
regime, with unique access to the revolutionary leaders.
As the Red Army engaged with an Allied invasion
of Russia, Ransome was conducting a love affair with
Evgenia Shelepina, private secretary to Leon Trotsky,
then Soviet Commissar for War. As the intimate friend
of Karl
Radek,
the Bolshevik Chief of Propaganda, he
denied the Red Terror and compared Lenin to Oliver
Cromwell. No English journalist was considered more
controversial, or more damaging to British security.
He only narrowly escaped prosecution for treason.
Yet as Ransome's passion for Evgenia deepened, he was
offering his services to the British government, both
as unofficial diplomat and as spy. Revealing a dizzying
ability to adapt himself to the nearest power, he insisted,
nevertheless, that he had retained absolute objectivity.
How did this
bluff, in
many ways conservative
Englishman, associated by millions with nothing more
threatening than messing about in boats, become such
an ardent defender of the Bolshevik experiment? Was
Ransome a double agent or, as he liked to insist, an
innocent go-between? Roland Chambers, in a masterly
narrative, explores Ransome's career as a struggling writer
in Edwardian London, his disastrous first marriage and
flight to Russia, and his remarkable high-wire act as
British agent and mouthpiece of the Bolsheviki'. Later,
Ransome's triumph was to erase the entire episode
from the public consciousness, just as he erased all
uncomfortable episodes, including his relationship
with his only daughter.
This is an absorbing and often chilling examination
of an English icon and his world.
uk
£20.00
RRP
ROLAND CHAMBERS studied film and
literature in Poland and at New York University
before returning to England in
1998.
He has worked
as a private investigator specialising in Russian politics
and business. He lives in London. The Last Englishman
is his first biography.
De.ignbyFab«r
Jack« photograph»: Arthur Ramon« from private collection: Rimian tgura
Є
Bmmann/CORBIS: Dirwent Wattr
О
Е.О.
Hoppť/CORBIS;
boat·
β
CORBIS
Author photograph
О
Dominic Young |
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