10 JANUARY 1970, Page 19

Shorter notices

Allied Intervention in Russia 1917-1920 John Bradley (Weidenfeld & Nicolson 55s). Had there been anything like a genuine Allied intervention against the Russian Revolution the Bolsheviks would never have survived. There was none—but the half- hearted attempts to intervene created a legend which persists to this day. Mr Bradley has produced a useful, if rather dull (and ridiculously over-priced), descrip- tion of what was probably the greatest international muddle of our century