Boris V. Nikitine

This book is the translation of a work published in the Russian language in Paris a few months ago.

It is of historical importance as it gives a first-hand account of the events in Petrograd from March to July, 1917, It is too, a human document reproducing as it does, the hopes and fears of the patriotic author, one of the handful of real Russian officers who tried to stem the rot that had set in in Petrograd after the March Revolution and was inevitably leading to the catastrophe of the Bolshevik usurpation of power in November, 1917.

The March Revolution was merely a mutiny of the 300,000 reserve troops crowded in the capital. These men forced the Government to promise not to send them to the front, but to retain them in Petrograd �to safeguard the revolution� as they called it, �i.e.,� as the author remarks, �to save their own skins.�

Colonel Nikitine arrived from the front in the capital in March on short leave, and was compelled, much against his will, to remain there to organize a counter-espionage office. He tells of his difficulties in dealing with politicians impossible to trust and of his success in obtaining convincing proof of the connection of the Bolshevik leaders with German agents from whom they drew enormous sums of money. He describes how the disclosure of these traitorous activities by bringing back the soldiery temporarily to some glimmering of their duty turned the scale in favour of the Provisional Government in the July rising. . . .

The reader will find Chapter XIX, �The Lenin Museum,� of special interest. It contains some interesting details of the career of the apostle of Bolshevism, whose tomb in the Red Square at Moscow is visited annually by some hundreds of gaping English tourists, interested in what they call his �great experiment.�

ALFRED KNOX    

 

The Fatal Years by Colonel B. V. Nikitine
London   Edinburgh   Glasgow
William Hodge, 1938, pages v - vi.

Nikitin, B. V. Title Rokovye gody : novye vospominanii︠a︡ uchastnika : memuary nachalʹnika voennoĭ kontrrazvedki Petrogradskogo voennogo okruga / Boris Nikitin ; predsedatelʹ redakt︠s︡ionnogo soveta A.G. Shavaev. Publisher Moskva : Pravovoe prosveshchenie, 2000. Description 247 p. : ill. ; 25 cm. Series Serii︠a︡ "Arkhiv kontrrazvedki" ;t. 1 ISBN 5934850024 Language Russian

N�k�t�n, B. V. Uniform Title [ Rokovye gody. English] Title The fatal years : fresh revelations on a chapter of underground history / by B. V. Nikitine ; with a pref. by Sir Alfred Knox. Publisher Westport, Conn. : Hyperion Press, 1977. Description xiii, 312 p. ; 23 cm. Series Russian studies ISBN 0883554380 : Language English Note Translation of Rokovye gody. Reprint of the 1938 ed. published by W. Hodge, London.

N�k�t�n, B. V. Uniform Title [ Rokovye gody. English] Title The fatal years; fresh revelations on a chapter of underground history, Publisher London [etc.] W. Hodge and company, limited, 1938. Description xiii, [1], 312 p. 22 cm. Language English Note "Translated by D. Hastle Smith."

Nikitin, B. V. Title Rokovy gody, novyi︠a︡ pokazanii︠a︡ uchastnika. Publisher Parizh [Les Editeurs Reunis] 1937. Description 271 p. , 21 cm. Language Russian

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I am incredulous ; would B. V. Nikitin be published in the Soviet Union (so-called) in the 1960-70's ? (WPT)

3 Details/Locations Title Kursami doblesti i slavy. Publisher 1975. Description 251 p., [19] leaves of plates : ill. ; 21 cm. Language Russian Note Romanized. Subject Soviet Union. Voenno-Morskoĭ Flot -- History. Torpedo-boats. World War, 1939-1945 -- Naval operations, Russian. Format Book Library SRLF 4 Details/Locations Title Kursami doblesti i slavy : boevoĭ putʹ torpednykh katerov sovetskogo Voenno-Morskogo flota / [B.V. Nikitin ... et al.]. Publisher Moskva : Voenizdat, 1975. Description 251 p., [19] leaves of plates : ill. ; 21 cm. Language Russian Note In Cyrillic characters. Note Includes bibliography. Subject Soviet Union. Voenno-Morskoĭ Flot -- History. Torpedo-boats. World War, 1939-1945 -- Naval operations, Russian. Format Book Library NRLF UCR SRLF 5 Details/Locations Title Kursami doblesti i slavy : boevoĭ put' torpednykh katerov sovetskogo Voenno-Morskogo Flota / [B. V. Nikitin...et al.]. Publisher Moskva : Voenizdat, 1975. Description 251 p., [19] leaves of plates : ill. ; 21 cm. Language Russian Note In Cyrillic. Note Includes bibliographical references. Subject Torpedo-boats. Soviet Union. Voenno-Morskoĭ Flot -- History. World War, 1939-1945 -- Naval operations, Russian. Format Book Library SRLF 6 Details/Locations Title Politotdelʹt︠︡sy. [Sostavitelʹ B.V. Nikitin] Publisher Moskva, Voen. izd-vo, 1967. Description 301 p. illus. Language Russian Subject Soviet Union -- Armed Forces -- Political activity. Format Book Library SRLF 7 Details/Locations Title Politotdelʹt︠s︡y. [Sostavitelʹ B.V. Nikitin]. Publisher Moskva, Voen. izd-vo, 1967. Description 301 p. ports. 22 cm. Language Russian Subject Soviet Union -- Armed Forces -- Political activity. Format Book Library NRLF SRLF