Sir Stafford Cripps' meteoric rise from the radical fringe of Parliament to membership of the War Cabinet came via his ambassadorship to Moscow at the turning-point in the War. This lively revisionist account of a crucial phase in his career.
Lenin's death at the beginning of 1924 coincided with an exhaustive search by the USSR for a modus vivendi with the capitalist world. In laying the foundations of peaceful co-existence, priority was given to the cultivation of relations with Britain.