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The Lockhart Plot - Love, Betrayal, Assassination and Counter-Revolution in Lenin's Russia (Paperback)
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The Lockhart Plot - Love, Betrayal, Assassination and Counter-Revolution in Lenin's Russia (Paperback)
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During the spring and summer of 1918, with World War I still
undecided, British, French and American agents in Russia developed
a breathtakingly audacious plan. Led by Robert Hamilton Bruce
Lockhart, a dashing, cynical, urbane 30-year-old Scot, they
conspired to overthrow Lenin's newly established Bolshevik regime,
and to install one that would continue the war against Germany on
the Eastern Front. Lockhart's confidante and chief support, with
whom he engaged in a passionate love affair, was the mysterious,
alluring Moura von Benkendorff, wife of a former aide-de-camp to
the Tsar. The plotters' chief opponent was 'Iron Felix'
Dzerzhinsky. He led the Cheka, 'Sword and Shield' of the Russian
Revolution and forerunner of the KGB. Dzerzhinsky loved humanity -
in the abstract. He believed socialism represented humanity's best
hope. To preserve and protect it he would unleash unbounded terror.
Revolutionary Russia provided the setting for the ensuing contest.
In the back streets of Petrograd and Moscow, in rough gypsy
cabarets, in glittering nightclubs, in cells beneath the Cheka's
Lubianka prison, the protagonists engaged in a deadly game of wits
for the highest possible stakes - not merely life and death, but
the outcome of a world war and the nature of Russia's post-war
regime. Confident of success, the conspirators set the date for an
uprising, September 8, 1918, but the Cheka had penetrated their
organization and pounced just beforehand. The Lockhart Plot could
have been a turning point in world history. Instead, its failure
has left us with one of the great 'what ifs?' of twentieth century
history, which is why it has until now remained shrouded in
mystery. But it was a plot on whose outcome rested both the fate of
the Revolution and the future shape of world history - and the
story behind it is a thrilling one that continues to resonate in
the early 21st century.
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