 Peters later returned to Russia to play a leading part in the Bolshevik revolution; he became deputy director of the Cheka and worked with Lenin and Dzerzhinsky.All this was somewhat curious court work considering the number of anarchists that his father, William Melville, had apprehended, and his father's key emergent role in counter-intelligence.Sir James also, albeit unsuccessfully, acted in appeal against the obscenity criminal verdict which included a censorship order against "The Well of Loneliness" by Radclyffe Hall.