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They saw him coming

Neal Ascherson: The Lockhart Plot, 5 November 2020

The Lockhart Plot: Love, Betrayal, Assassination and Counter-­Revolution in Lenin’s Russia 
by Jonathan Schneer.
Oxford, 331 pp., £25, July 2020, 978 0 19 885298 8
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... London or Paris, they came to assume that silence meant approval. That wasn’t always the case.To Jonathan Schneer, who has taught modern history in several American universities, ‘the Lockhart Plot seemed … an important subject; also, dramatic, romantic, intrinsically gripping.’ Dramatic and romantic it certainly was, and ...

An ’ell of an ’eadache

Florence Sutcliffe-Braithwaite: The General Strike, 13 August 2026

The Future in Our Past: The General Strike, 1926-2026 
by Callum Cant and Matthew Lee.
Verso, 154 pp., £11.99, April, 978 1 83674 261 6
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The Edge of Revolution: The General Strike that Shook Britain 
by David Torrance.
Bloomsbury, 320 pp., £20, March, 978 1 3994 2359 5
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Nine Days in May: The General Strike of 1926 
by Jonathan Schneer.
Oxford, 416 pp., £25, March, 978 0 19 289453 3
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Britain’s Revolutionary Summer: The General Strike of 1926 
by Edd Mustill.
Oneworld, 324 pp., £16.99, April, 978 1 83643 068 1
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... establishment wanted to dominate the working classes. Studies by two academics, David Torrance and Jonathan Schneer, are aimed at a popular audience. Torrance focuses on high politics and elites, on the dubious basis that politicians and the middle classes are ‘more inclined to record their experiences than striking railwaymen, printers and bus ...

Lives of Reilly

Thomas Jones, 10 August 2023

Sidney Reilly: Master Spy 
by Benny Morris.
Yale, 190 pp., £16.99, January, 978 0 300 24826 5
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... as ‘the Ambassadors’ Plot’ or ‘the Lockhart Plot’. Reilly is a secondary character in Jonathan Schneer’s The Lockhart Plot; Neal Ascherson, reviewing the book in the LRB (5 November 2020), describes him as an ‘ungraspable rogue’. Schneer gives a detailed account of the plot and its failure. In ...

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