The Lockhart Plot

The Lockhart PlotConstant Wonder • Season 2022, Episode 745, Segment 1

Nov 16, 2020 • 28m

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 at the Georgia Institute of Technology and author of "The Lockhart Plot: Love, Betrayal, Assassination and Counter-Revolution in Lenin’s Russia"

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