A Prisoner of the Reds

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Author

McCullagh, Francis, 1874-1956

Title

A prisoner of the Reds : The story of a British officer captured in Siberia

Original Publication

London: John Murray, 1921.

Credits

Peter Becker and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive)

Language

English

LoC Class

DK: History: General and Eastern Hemisphere: Russia, Former Soviet Republics, Poland

Subject

Nicholas II, Emperor of Russia, 1868-1918

Category

Text

Project Gutenberg

eBook-No. 79088

Release Date

July 13, 2026

Copyright

Public domain in the USA.

Contents

1. 1.Untitled
2. 2.Untitled
3. 3.Untitled
4. 4.PREFACE
5. 5.CONTENTS
6. 6.LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
7. 7.A PRISONER OF THE REDS — CHAPTER I THE FLIGHT FROM OMSK
8. 8.CHAPTER II WE TAKE TO SLEIGHS
9. 9.CHAPTER III CAPTURED
10. 10.CHAPTER IV SOME HORRORS OF THE RETREAT
11. 11.CHAPTER V FACE TO FACE WITH BOLSHEVISM
12. 12.CHAPTER VI WE LEAVE OUR TRAIN
13. 13.CHAPTER VII I BECOME A CIVILIAN
14. 14.CHAPTER VIII IN RED KRASNOYARSK
15. 15.CHAPTER IX I ESCAPE
16. 16.CHAPTER X THE JOURNEY TO EKATERINBURG
17. 17.CHAPTER XI TROTSKY IN EKATERINBURG
18. 18.CHAPTER XII IN A “PROPAGANDA HALL”
19. 19.CHAPTER XIII THE MURDER OF THE TSAR
20. 20.CHAPTER XIV THE BURIAL OF THE TSAR — The Opinion of One of the Tsar’s Jailers on the Tsar and the Romanov Family. — FOOTNOTES:
21. 21.CHAPTER XV THE CITY OF DREADFUL HUNGER
22. 22.CHAPTER XVI THE MYSTERIES OF MOSCOW
23. 23.CHAPTER XVII MY LIFE IN MOSCOW
24. 24.CHAPTER XVIII THE RED TSAR AND HIS GUESTS
25. 25.CHAPTER XIX THE BOLSHEVIK F.O. AND THE FOREIGN PRESS
26. 26.CHAPTER XX THE BOLSHEVIK NEWS AGENCY
27. 27.CHAPTER XXI AN INTERVIEW WITH THE PATRIARCH
28. 28.CHAPTER XXII IN THE DUNGEONS OF THE EXTRAORDINARY COMMISSION
29. 29.CHAPTER XXIII LENINISM: THE DESIGN OF THE BOLSHEVIKS
30. 30.CHAPTER XXIV ABOARD THE GOOD SHIP “DONGOLA”
31. 31.APPENDIX — KOLCHAK’S GOLD TRAIN — BURNING OF A RED CROSS TRAIN — WRITINGS ON STATION WALLS — THE PROPAGANDA HALL AT EKATERINBURG — BOLSHEVIK JOURNALISM — THE PEASANTS — MOSCOW — BOLSHEVIK MODERNISM — TYPHUS — CONDITIONS IN EKATERINBURG — THE RUSSIAN WHITES — WHITE TROOPS WHO JOINED THE REDS — TRADE WITH CAPITALIST COUNTRIES — THE IMPERIAL FAMILY — LENIN — THE SOVIET GOVERNMENT — MY BOLSHEVIK TRAVELLING COMPANIONS — THE RED LABOUR ARMY — WORKMEN IN FACTORIES — THE MILITARY POSITION IN SIBERIA — THE EDUCATION OF THE PROLETARIAT
32. 32.INDEX

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