As part of Pushkin House Book Prize 2021, we are delighted to welcome Jonathan Schneer to speak about his shortlisted book The Lockhart Plot. Jonathan will be in conversation with award-winning author and journalist, Jonathan Steele. The discussion will be in front of a live audience at Pushkin House but those who cannot join in person have the option of watching a recording on demand.
Jonathan Schneer’s rivitingly-written The Lockhart Plot, is the only full-length book on the Lockhart Plot, opening up this fascinating story to the world. 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. But the Cheka had penetrated their organization and pounced. The Lockhart Plot was a turning point in world history, except it failed to turn.
Jonathan Schneer is Professor Emeritus at Georgia Institute of Technology. He earned his doctorate from Columbia University and taught at Yale University and the Georgia Institute of Technology. The recipient of numerous academic fellowships and awards, he has written seven previous books including The Balfour Declaration: The Origins of Arab-Israeli Conflict, (2010), which won a National Jewish Book Award.
Read our Q&A with Jonathan Schneer
Jonathan Steele is is an author and journalist who has spent most of his career with the Guardian. He was the paper's Bureau Chief in Moscow between 1988 and 1994 and in Washington from 1975 to1979. As Chief Foreign Correspondent he covered wars in Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria, the Balkans, Central America, and East and Southern Africa. Steele has written six books on international affairs, including South Africa, Germany, Russia, Iraq and Afghanistan. His book Eternal Russia: Yeltsin, Gorbachev and the Mirage of Democracy was published by Faber and Faber in 1994 and in the USA by Harvard University Press. Steele has won several of the major British journalism prizes - twice named as International Reporter of the Year in the British Press Awards in 1981 and 1991, winner of the James Cameron award, the Martha Gellhorn special award, the Amnesty International human rights award, and the London press club's Scoop of the Year award.
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