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The Lockhart Plot: Love, Betrayal, Assassination and Counter-Revolution in Lenin's Russia by Jonathan Schneer longlist they present the impact ofDuring 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 Lenins newly established Bolshevik regime, and to install one that would continue the war against Germany on the Eastern Front. But the Cheka had penetrated their organization and