ABSTRACT
By mid-October 1918, Robert Bruce Lockhart (the War Cabinet’s special envoy to the Bolshevik Government) had returned to London from the confines of the Lubyanka prison in Moscow. In the course of a lengthy report on November 7, the first anniversary of the Bolshevik revolution, he informed the War Cabinet that the Allies now had three possible courses of action in Russia:
1 The Allies could abandon intervention, and come to terms with the Bolsheviks, who might become more moderate, and then die a natural death. Such a course would also help to avoid serious labour unrest at home.
