1. Tha Harvard man in the Kremlin Wall -- 2. The Catholic Communist -- 3. The conversion -- 4. The red queen Victoria -- 5. Gandhi versus Lenin: memories of Yusuf Meherally -- 6. "The last man in the German Social Democratic Party" -- 7. Inessa Armand -- 8. The double agent -- 9. Trotsky: the history-maker as historian -- 10. The strange case of Litvinov's diary.