The Lockhart Plot Love, Betrayal, Assassination and Counter-Revolution in Lenin's Russia

by Schneer, Jonathan

• ISBN13: 9780198852988
• ISBN10: 0198852983
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2020-10-01
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Author Biography

Jonathan Schneer was born in New York City. He earned his doctorate from Columbia University and has taught at Yale University and the Georgia Institute of Technology. The recipient of numerous academic fellowships and awards, he has written seven previous books, one of which, The Balfour Declaration: The Origins of Arab-Israeli Conflict, (2010), won a National Jewish Book Award. His books and articles have been translated into German, French, Turkish and Chinese. Now an emeritus professor, he divides his time between Atlanta, Georgia and Williamstown, Massachusetts, USA.

Table of Contents

Introduction
I: Lockhart before the Fall
1. The Making of Bruce Lockhart
2. The Education of Bruce Lockhart
3. The Temptations of Bruce Lockhart
II: Defenders of the Faith
4. Iron Felix Dzerzhinsky
5. Tender Jacov Peters
6. The Cheka
III: Towards the Fall
7. The 'Ace of Spies'
8. First Steps Towards the Counter-Revolution
9. The Question of Moura
10. Why Lockhart turned to the Latvians 10
11. Dzerzhinsky Counters
12. Intrigue and Romance in Revolutionary Russia
13. The Lockhart Plot Takes Shape
IV: The Fall
14. The Lockhart Plot
15. The Defeat of the Lockhart Plot
16. Denouement
17. Epilogue
18. Conclusion
Acknowledgements
Notes
Bibliography
Index