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  schema location: http://www.loc.gov/mods/v3 http://www.loc.gov/standards/mods/v3/mods-3-2.xsd
  title info:
    non sort: The
    title: Zinoviev letter
    sub title: the conspiracy that never dies
  name:
    name part: Bennett, Gill
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: enk
    date issued: 2018
    edition: First edition.
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: xv, 340 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
  abstract: This is the story of one of the most enduring conspiracy theories in British politics, an intrigue that still has resonance nearly a century after it was written, the Zinoviev Letter of 1924. Almost certainly a forgery, no original has ever been traced, and even if genuine it was probably Soviet fake news. Despite this, the Letter still haunts British politics nearly a century after it was written, the subject of major Whitehall investigations in the 1960s and 1990s, and cropping up in the media as recently as during the Referendum campaign and the 2017 general election. The Letter, encouraging the British proletariat to greater revolutionary fervor, was apparently sent by Grigori Zinoviev, head of the Bolshevik propaganda organization, to the British Communist Party in September 1924. Sent to London through British Secret Intelligence Service channels, it arrived during the general election campaign and was leaked to the press. The Letter's publication by the Daily Mail on October 25, 1924, just before the General Election humiliated the first ever British Labour government, headed by Ramsay MacDonald, when its political opponents used it to create a "Red Scare" in the media. Labour blamed the Letter for its defeat, insisting there had been a right-wing establishment conspiracy and many in the Labour Party have never forgotten it. The Zinoviev Letter has long been a symbol of political dirty tricks and what we would now call "fake news." But it is also a gripping historical detective story of spies and secrets, fraud and forgery, international subversion and the nascent global conflict between communism and capitalism.
  target audience: adult
  note: Gill Bennett.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
    geographic code: e-uk---
    geographic code: e-ur---
  subject:
    geographic: Great Britain
    topic: Foreign relations
    geographic: Soviet Union
  subject:
    geographic: Soviet Union
    topic: Foreign relations
    geographic: Great Britain
  subject:
    geographic: Great Britain
    topic: Foreign relations
    temporal: 1901-1936
  classification: DA47.65 .B46 2018
  classification: 940.5
  identifier: 0198767307
  identifier: 9780198767305
  record info:
    record content source: YDX
    record creation date: 171222
    record change date: 20181115123403.0
    record identifier: in00003998489