The Lockhart Plot

The Lockhart Plot

Constant Wonder - Season 2022, Episode 1012 , Segment 1

Lockhart Plot (originally aired November 16, 2020)

Episode: Lockhart Plot (originally aired November 16, 2020)

  • May 20, 2021 7:00 pm
  • 27:26

The Lockhart Plot, if successful, would have resulted in the assassinations of Lenin and Trotsky and the establishment of an Ally-friendly regime in Russia. But this plot was a “turning point that failed to turn.” How would history have been different if they had succeeded? Guest: Jonathan Schneer, Professor Emeritus of British History, Georgia Institute of Technology, and author of "The Lockhart Plot: Love, Betrayal, Assassination and Counter-Revolution in Lenin’s Russia"