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Dr Yuri Felshtinsky is a prominent author, historian, and journalist, and expert on Russia and the former Soviet Union. He has appeared in hundreds of print, TV, and radio interviews worldwide, and is widely known as co-author of the book “Blowing Up Russia” with Alexander Litvinenko, a former Lieutenant Colonel in the FSB who was poisoned with radioactive polonium in London in 2006. His latest book – “Blowing up Ukraine: The Return of Russian Terror and The Threat of World War III”, was researched before the invasion of Ukraine, and is the first comprehensive investigation into the lethal methods Russia has used since 1999 to take over Ukraine – culminating in the full-blown unprovoked war in 2022 and mounting atrocities.----------BOOKS:From Red Terror to Terrorist State: Russia's Secret Intelligence Services and Their Fight for World Domination from Felix Dzerzhinsky to Vladimir Putin Hardcover – 4 Nov. 2023by Yuri Felshtinsky (Author), Vladimir Popov (Author)Publisher: Gibson House ----------LINKS: https://twitter.com/yfelshtinskyhttps://www.linkedin.com/in/yuri-felshtinsky-55497940/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yuri_Felshtinskyhttps://www.spectator.co.uk/writer/yuri-felshtinsky/----------ARTICLES:https://www.lemonde.fr/en/international/article/2023/09/03/yuri-felshtinsky-nothing-will-change-in-russia-until-the-security-services-are-dismantled_6122181_4.html----------Easter Pysanky: Silicon Curtain - https://car4ukraine.com/campaigns/easter-pysanky-silicon-curtainCar for Ukraine has joined forces with a group of influencers, creators, and news observers during this special Easter season. In peaceful times, we might gift a basket of pysanky (hand-painted eggs), but now, we aim to deliver a basket of trucks to our warriors.This time, our main focus is on the Seraphims of the 104th Brigade and Chimera of HUR (Main Directorate of Intelligence), highly effective units that: - disrupt enemy logistics - detect and strike command centers - carry out precision operations against high-value enemy targetshttps://car4ukraine.com/campaigns/easter-pysanky-silicon-curtain----------SILICON CURTAIN FILM FUNDRAISERA project to make a documentary film in Ukraine, to raise awareness of Ukraine's struggle and in supporting a team running aid convoys to Ukraine's front-line towns.https://buymeacoffee.com/siliconcurtain/extras----------SUPPORT THE CHANNEL:https://www.buymeacoffee.com/siliconcurtainhttps://www.patreon.com/siliconcurtain----------TRUSTED CHARITIES ON THE GROUND:kharpp - Reconstruction project supporting communities in Kharkiv and Przemyślhttps://kharpp.com/Save Ukrainehttps://www.saveukraineua.org/Superhumans - Hospital for war traumashttps://superhumans.com/en/UNBROKEN - Treatment. Prosthesis. Rehabilitation for Ukrainians in Ukrainehttps://unbroken.org.ua/Come Back Alivehttps://savelife.in.ua/en/Chefs For Ukraine - World Central Kitchenhttps://wck.org/relief/activation-chefs-for-ukraineUNITED24 - An initiative of President Zelenskyyhttps://u24.gov.ua/Serhiy Prytula Charity Foundationhttps://prytulafoundation.orgNOR DOG Animal Rescuehttps://www.nor-dog.org/home/----------PLATFORMS:Twitter: https://twitter.com/CurtainSiliconInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/siliconcurtain/Podcast: https://open.spotify.com/show/4thRZj6NO7y93zG11JMtqmLinkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/finkjonathan/Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/siliconcurtain----------Welcome to the Silicon Curtain podcast. Please like and subscribe if you like the content we produce. It will really help to increase the popularity of our content in YouTube s algorithm. Our material is now being made available on popular podcasting platforms as well, such as Spotify and Apple Podcasts.

The Kremlin's spy networks are well documented – but what's less known is how they shaped Russian history. In centering the rise and fall of Communism in Russia's history, are we missing a crucial historical axis – the intelligence services which have long kept an eye on citizens across Russia and further afield. Yuri Felshtinsky, author of From Red Terror To Terrorist State: Russia's Intelligence Services and Their Fight For World Domination from Felix Dzerzhinsky to Vladimir Putin, joins Alex Andreou in The Bunker to discuss whether the West fails to tell the full story of modern Russia. We are sponsored by Indeed. Go to Indeed.com/bunker for £100 sponsored credit. www.patreon.com/bunkercast  Written and presented by Alex Andreou. Producer: Liam Tait. Assistant Producer: Adam Wright. Audio editor: Jade Bailey. Managing editor: Jacob Jarvis. Music by Kenny Dickinson. Group Editor: Andrew Harrison. THE BUNKER is a Podmasters Production. Instagram | Twitter Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Dr Yuri Felshtinsky is a prominent author, historian, and journalist, and expert on Russia and the former Soviet Union. He has appeared in hundreds of print, TV, and radio interviews worldwide, and is widely known as co-author of the book “Blowing Up Russia” with Alexander Litvinenko, a former Lieutenant Colonel in the FSB who was poisoned with radioactive polonium in London in 2006. His latest book – “Blowing up Ukraine: The Return of Russian Terror and The Threat of World War III”, was researched before the invasion of Ukraine, and is the first comprehensive investigation into the lethal methods Russia has used since 1999 to take over Ukraine – culminating in the full-blown unprovoked war in 2022 and mounting atrocities. ---------- BOOKS: From Red Terror to Terrorist State: Russia's Secret Intelligence Services and Their Fight for World Domination from Felix Dzerzhinsky to Vladimir Putin Hardcover – 4 Nov. 2023 by Yuri Felshtinsky (Author), Vladimir Popov (Author) Publisher: Gibson House ---------- LINKS: https://twitter.com/yfelshtinsky https://www.linkedin.com/in/yuri-felshtinsky-55497940/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yuri_Felshtinsky https://www.spectator.co.uk/writer/yuri-felshtinsky/ ---------- ARTICLES: https://www.lemonde.fr/en/international/article/2023/09/03/yuri-felshtinsky-nothing-will-change-in-russia-until-the-security-services-are-dismantled_6122181_4.html ---------- SUPPORT THE CHANNEL: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/siliconcurtain https://www.patreon.com/siliconcurtain ---------- TRUSTED CHARITIES ON THE GROUND: kharpp - Reconstruction project supporting communities in Kharkiv and Przemyśl https://kharpp.com/ Save Ukraine https://www.saveukraineua.org/ Superhumans - Hospital for war traumas https://superhumans.com/en/ UNBROKEN - Treatment. Prosthesis. Rehabilitation for Ukrainians in Ukraine https://unbroken.org.ua/ Come Back Alive https://savelife.in.ua/en/ Chefs For Ukraine - World Central Kitchen https://wck.org/relief/activation-chefs-for-ukraine UNITED24 - An initiative of President Zelenskyy https://u24.gov.ua/ Serhiy Prytula Charity Foundation https://prytulafoundation.org NOR DOG Animal Rescue https://www.nor-dog.org/home/ ---------- PLATFORMS: Twitter: https://twitter.com/CurtainSilicon Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/siliconcurtain/ Podcast: https://open.spotify.com/show/4thRZj6NO7y93zG11JMtqm Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/finkjonathan/ Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/siliconcurtain ---------- Welcome to the Silicon Curtain podcast. Please like and subscribe if you like the content we produce. It will really help to increase the popularity of our content in YouTube s algorithm. Our material is now being made available on popular podcasting platforms as well, such as Spotify and Apple Podcasts.

The history of Russia after 1917 is traditionally written as the rise of the Communist Party, and its entrenchment in power throughout the 20th century. But is this missing a key piece of the equation? Yuri Felshtinsky and Vladimir Popov have written a stunning book, that benefits from the trove of new historical sources available from inside the Russian secret services. It retells the familiar story from an entirely new angle – starting with the pivotal role of Felix Dzerzhinsky, the leader of the Communist Secret Service, the Cheka. It then traces the intense and bitter struggles of the Cheka to wrest state control from the Communist party. With the presidency of Vladimir Putin in 1999, Dzerzhinsky's ultimate goal finally came to fruition. It explains why modern Russia, a state without ideology, is the world's only mafia-state programmed to forever extort, pillage and loot it's people and the world. ---------- ABOUT: Colonel Vladimir Popov was a high-ranking officer in the secret Fifth Directorate of the KGB, where he worked from 1972-1991 and kept copies of case files in his personal archives. He left the KGB a month after the August 1991 coup against USSR leader Mikhail Gorbachev and emigrated to Canada. ---------- LINKS: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Red-Terror-Mafia-State-Intelligence/dp/1783342501/ref=sr_1_1?crid=3AZ4FJFR61BZ1&keywords=popov&qid=1699637170&sprefix=popov%2Caps%2C148&sr=8-1 ---------- BOOKS: From Red Terror to Terrorist State: Russia's Secret Intelligence Services and Their Fight for World Domination from Felix Dzerzhinsky to Vladimir Putin Hardcover – 4 Nov. 2023 by Yuri Felshtinsky (Author), Vladimir Popov (Author) Publisher: Gibson House ----- WATCH NEXT: Denis Zakharov https://youtu.be/HCVPAJrAoyI Vlad Vexler https://youtu.be/RDQ92lLLwyM Konstantin Samoilov https://youtu.be/gbINoWwiq-Y Boris Bondarev https://youtu.be/-fP-vggvDXo Konstantin von Eggert MBE (Hon) https://youtu.be/Rj6pTGVlG1E ---------- PLATFORMS: Twitter: https://twitter.com/CurtainSilicon Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/siliconcurtain/ Podcast: https://open.spotify.com/show/4thRZj6NO7y93zG11JMtqm Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/finkjonathan/ Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/siliconcurtain ---------- Welcome to the Silicon Curtain podcast. Please like and subscribe if you like the content we produce. It will really help to increase the popularity of our content in YouTube's algorithm. Our material is now being made available on popular podcasting platforms as well, such as Spotify and Apple Podcasts.

INTRO: The history of Russia after 1917 is traditionally written as the rise of the Communist Party, and its entrenchment in power throughout the 20th century. But is this missing a key piece of the equation? Yuri Felshtinsky and Vladimir Popov have written a stunning book, that benefits from the trove of new historical sources available from inside the Russian secret services. It retells the familiar story from an entirely new angle – starting with the pivotal role of Felix Dzerzhinsky, the leader of the Communist Secret Service, the Cheka. It then traces the intense and bitter struggles of the Cheka to wrest state control from the Communist party. With the presidency of Vladimir Putin in 1999, Dzerzhinsky's ultimate goal finally came to fruition. It explains why modern Russia, a state without ideology, is the world's only mafia-state programmed to forever extort, pillage and loot it's people and the world. ---------- ABOUT: Dr Yuri Felshtinsky is a prominent author, historian, and journalist, and expert on Russia and the former Soviet Union. He has appeared in print, TV, and radio interviews worldwide, and is widely known as co-author of the book “Blowing Up Russia” with Alexander Litvinenko, a former Lieutenant Colonel in the FSB who was poisoned with radioactive polonium in London in 2006. ---------- LINKS: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Red-Terror-Mafia-State-Intelligence/dp/1783342501/ref=sr_1_1?crid=3AZ4FJFR61BZ1&keywords=popov&qid=1699637170&sprefix=popov%2Caps%2C148&sr=8-1 ---------- BOOKS: From Red Terror to Terrorist State: Russia's Secret Intelligence Services and Their Fight for World Domination from Felix Dzerzhinsky to Vladimir Putin Hardcover – 4 Nov. 2023 by Yuri Felshtinsky (Author), Vladimir Popov (Author) Publisher: Gibson House ----- WATCH NEXT: Denis Zakharov https://youtu.be/HCVPAJrAoyI Vlad Vexler https://youtu.be/RDQ92lLLwyM Konstantin Samoilov https://youtu.be/gbINoWwiq-Y Boris Bondarev https://youtu.be/-fP-vggvDXo Konstantin von Eggert MBE (Hon) https://youtu.be/Rj6pTGVlG1E ---------- PLATFORMS: Twitter: https://twitter.com/CurtainSilicon Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/siliconcurtain/ Podcast: https://open.spotify.com/show/4thRZj6NO7y93zG11JMtqm Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/finkjonathan/ Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/siliconcurtain ---------- Welcome to the Silicon Curtain podcast. Please like and subscribe if you like the content we produce. It will really help to increase the popularity of our content in YouTube's algorithm. Our material is now being made available on popular podcasting platforms as well, such as Spotify and Apple Podcasts.

1.  Spanish Inquisition  2. Chinese   3.  French Revolution  4. Cheka – KGB - FSB  5. Nazi - Stasi   6. 3rdworld  PS The Chinese futureTyrannies require their servants, and none are more obedient and loyal than the secret police.  These are the instruments off oppression and control, the guarantor of regime continuity.  Using torture and terror – and with the coercive instruments of state control – they ensure that opponents disappear and criticism is silenced.  You will never find secret police in a democracy.  As guardians of tyranny, they are more than just intelligence agencies and it is the domestic population that is their target.  They pry into private lives and pervert the politics of the state; their instruments range from blackmail to torture, and fear always pervades their activities.  In East Germany, the Stasi drove people mad with their subtle psychological games, whilst in Haiti corpses were hung as a voodoo ritual in the trees. Terror is everywhere and the Secret Police is its executor.So it goes,Tom Assheton & James Jackson See also:YouTube: BloodyViolentHistoryhttps://www.instagram.com/bloodyviolenthistory/https://www.jamesjacksonbooks.comhttps://www.tomtom.co.uk If you enjoy the podcast, would you please leave a short review on Apple Podcasts/iTunes, Spotify or Google Podcast App? It takes less than 60 seconds, and it really helps to spread the wordSee https://simplecast.com/privacy/ for privacy information

We talk about fears of a potential false flag that could in an even bigger escalation of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, and we discuss the failures of both Western and Russian media/government etc to deal with the reality of false flag terror, due in large part to the role of both in carrying out and covering up these operations in order to advance pro war policies. We draw parallels between the reactions to the Moscow bombing in Russia which resulted in Putin's rise to power during the Second Chechen War and the reactions to the events of September 11th by Americans. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/To_the_Struggle_Against_World_Terrorism https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_Chechen_War#1999%E2%80%932000_Russian_offensive https://www.nytimes.com/1999/11/14/opinion/why-we-must-act.html https://www.gq.com/story/moscow-bombings-mikhail-trepashkin-and-putin https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=112530364 https://www.thisamericanlife.org/614/the-other-mr-president/act-one-8 https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2009/09/conde-nast-conspiracy/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mikhail_Trepashkin https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Felix_Dzerzhinsky https://www.unz.com/article/revisiting-litvinenko-what-really-happened/ https://www.unz.com/aanglin/putin-speech-on-the-ongoing-border-skirmish-with-the-ukraine/ https://www.cacianalyst.org/publications/analytical-articles/item/11799-analytical-articles-caci-analyst-2009-3-11-art-11799.html https://foreignpolicy.com/2022/02/22/russia-ukraine-invasion-georgia-2008-south-ossetia-tskhinvali/ https://www.aph.gov.au/About_Parliament/Parliamentary_Departments/Parliamentary_Library/pubs/BN/0809/RussiaGeorgiaConflict https://smallwarsjournal.com/jrnl/art/phantom-power-russias-neo-covert-operations-2008-georgian-and-2014-ukrainian-conflicts https://www.archives.gov/files/iwg/reports/hitlers-shadow.pdf https://www.occrp.org/en/the-pandora-papers/pandora-papers-reveal-offshore-holdings-of-ukrainian-president-and-his-inner-circle https://worldcrunch.com/world-affairs/volodymyr-zelensky-pandora-papers https://www.dissentmagazine.org/article/something-about-christopher https://altcensored.com/watch?v=SOTH8P1Wy0g https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/media-advisory-family-members-and-technical-experts-to-announce-bobby-mcilvaine-act-call-on-congress-to-launch-new-911-investigation-300516393.html https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2021/08/spike-lees-911-doc-promoted-conspiracy-theories https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2021/09/twenty-years-gone-911-bobby-mcilvaine/619490/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mJ5PKVp2_PM https://wikispooks.com/wiki/Barry_Jennings https://poddtoppen.se/podcast/1476478314/the-stay-awake-media-podcast/367-barry-jennings-interview-loose-change-jason-bermas-dylan-avery https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qMTCncSqFzA https://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/theeditors/2008/10/caught_up_in_a_conspiracy_theo.html https://qr.ae/pGLqxF https://www.panynj.gov/port-authority/en/press-room/press-release-archives/2001_press_releases/governor_pataki_actinggovernordifrancescolaudhistoricportauthori.html https://www.realcleardefense.com/articles/2022/03/17/the_nuclear_911_in_our_future_822292.html https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_government_operations_and_exercises_on_September_11,_2001 https://topdocumentaryfilms.com/9-11-war-games/ https://www.copvcia.com/free/ww3/060704_tripod_fema.html https://www.nbcnews.com/storyline/9-11-anniversary/secrets-9-11-new-details-chaos-nukes-emerge-n645711 https://nsarchive2.gwu.edu/nukevault/ebb270/ https://nsarchive2.gwu.edu/nukevault/ebb270/03.pdf https://www.researchgate.net/publication/342355359_The_Ground_Zero_Model_GZM http://911blogger.com/news/2009-10-22/wearechangela-confronts-thomas-c-reed-frmr-air-force-secnro-dirnuke-designer-911-drills-and-nuclear-treason https://www.haaretz.com/1.5462012 --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/the-antedote/support

Photo:  Members of the presidium of VCheKa (left to right) Yakov Peters, Józef Unszlicht, Abram Belenky (standing), Felix Dzerzhinsky, Vyacheslav Menzhinsky, 1921 #Ukraine: Whistleblowing Chekhists at the Kremlin. @PaulR_Gregory @TheHill https://thehill.com/opinion/international/598397-do-reported-russian-whistleblower-accounts-indicate-a-crack-in-putins

Slavoj Žižek discusses World War I and the other forces that shaped the Russian Revolution, how we should understand the Red Terror, the Russian Civil War, and the legacy of Felix Dzerzhinsky. Plus, Žižek reviews Squid Game and Denis Villeneuve's Dune remake.The Jacobin Show offers socialist perspectives on class and capitalism in the twenty-first century, the failures of liberalism, and the prospects of rebuilding a left labor movement in the US. This is the podcast version of the show from October 26, 2021 with Jen Pan, Nando Vila, and Cale Brooks hosting.Verso book club: https://www.versobooks.com/bookclubSubscribe to Jacobin for just $10: https://jacobinmag.com/subscribe/?code=JACOBINYTMusic provided by Zonkey: https://linktr.ee/zonkeyPatreon: https://www.patreon.com/jacobinmag

The Crimean city of Simferopol and the Russian city of Krasnodar both unveiled monuments to Soviet secret police founder Felix Dzerzhinsky on September 11, the 144th anniversary of his birth. Both monuments drew criticism from representatives of the Russian Orthodox Church, who condemned memorializing one of the architects of the Red Terror as an insult to its victims. The monument in Krasnodar was erected outside of a secondary school that was named after Dzerzhinsky in 2017, at the request of the school's staff and the local FSB. In total, there are more than 40 monuments to Dzerzhinsky located across Russia. Original Article: https://meduza.io/en/feature/2021/09/13/memorializing-iron-felix

History in the making can be messy. As a tale told years later by historians, it is usually a clean narrative, with a beginning, a middle, and a mostly logical and foreordained end. Much of that messiness gets lost. Not in Jonathan Schneer's new book, The Lockhart Plot: Love Betrayal, Assassination and Counter-Revolution in Lenin's Russia (Oxford UP, 2020). Schneer's recounts the story of a young British diplomat, Bruce Lockhart, sent to Soviet Russia soon after the October Revolution in 1917. Initially seeking some sort of accommodation with the Bolsheviks, Lockhart ends up plotting to overthrow the regime. The plot--set for September 1918--fails for all sorts of reasons, not least of which the plotters were outsmarted at every turn by Felix Dzerzhinsky, the head of the newly formed Cheka. The plot and its failure are a minor footnote of history. The book's great value is its description of the chaos in Moscow and St. Petersburg, Western intelligence efforts, the political geography of early Soviet Russia, and the personal lives of many of the leading characters. Lockhart's leading lady at the time of the plot, Moura von Benckendorff, is her own "force of history." For her, the Lockhart plot would end up being only one of many exciting moments of a long and dramatic life.  

History in the making can be messy. As a tale told years later by historians, it is usually a clean narrative, with a beginning, a middle, and a mostly logical and foreordained end. Much of that messiness gets lost. Not in Jonathan Schneer's new book, The Lockhart Plot: Love Betrayal, Assassination and Counter-Revolution in Lenin's Russia (Oxford UP, 2020). Schneer's recounts the story of a young British diplomat, Bruce Lockhart, sent to Soviet Russia soon after the October Revolution in 1917. Initially seeking some sort of accommodation with the Bolsheviks, Lockhart ends up plotting to overthrow the regime. The plot--set for September 1918--fails for all sorts of reasons, not least of which the plotters were outsmarted at every turn by Felix Dzerzhinsky, the head of the newly formed Cheka. The plot and its failure are a minor footnote of history. The book's great value is its description of the chaos in Moscow and St. Petersburg, Western intelligence efforts, the political geography of early Soviet Russia, and the personal lives of many of the leading characters. Lockhart's leading lady at the time of the plot, Moura von Benckendorff, is her own "force of history." For her, the Lockhart plot would end up being only one of many exciting moments of a long and dramatic life.   Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

History in the making can be messy. As a tale told years later by historians, it is usually a clean narrative, with a beginning, a middle, and a mostly logical and foreordained end. Much of that messiness gets lost. Not in Jonathan Schneer's new book, The Lockhart Plot: Love Betrayal, Assassination and Counter-Revolution in Lenin's Russia (Oxford UP, 2020). Schneer's recounts the story of a young British diplomat, Bruce Lockhart, sent to Soviet Russia soon after the October Revolution in 1917. Initially seeking some sort of accommodation with the Bolsheviks, Lockhart ends up plotting to overthrow the regime. The plot--set for September 1918--fails for all sorts of reasons, not least of which the plotters were outsmarted at every turn by Felix Dzerzhinsky, the head of the newly formed Cheka. The plot and its failure are a minor footnote of history. The book's great value is its description of the chaos in Moscow and St. Petersburg, Western intelligence efforts, the political geography of early Soviet Russia, and the personal lives of many of the leading characters. Lockhart's leading lady at the time of the plot, Moura von Benckendorff, is her own "force of history." For her, the Lockhart plot would end up being only one of many exciting moments of a long and dramatic life.   Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

History in the making can be messy. As a tale told years later by historians, it is usually a clean narrative, with a beginning, a middle, and a mostly logical and foreordained end. Much of that messiness gets lost. Not in Jonathan Schneer's new book, The Lockhart Plot: Love Betrayal, Assassination and Counter-Revolution in Lenin's Russia (Oxford UP, 2020). Schneer's recounts the story of a young British diplomat, Bruce Lockhart, sent to Soviet Russia soon after the October Revolution in 1917. Initially seeking some sort of accommodation with the Bolsheviks, Lockhart ends up plotting to overthrow the regime. The plot--set for September 1918--fails for all sorts of reasons, not least of which the plotters were outsmarted at every turn by Felix Dzerzhinsky, the head of the newly formed Cheka. The plot and its failure are a minor footnote of history. The book's great value is its description of the chaos in Moscow and St. Petersburg, Western intelligence efforts, the political geography of early Soviet Russia, and the personal lives of many of the leading characters. Lockhart's leading lady at the time of the plot, Moura von Benckendorff, is her own "force of history." For her, the Lockhart plot would end up being only one of many exciting moments of a long and dramatic life.   Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

History in the making can be messy. As a tale told years later by historians, it is usually a clean narrative, with a beginning, a middle, and a mostly logical and foreordained end. Much of that messiness gets lost. Not in Jonathan Schneer's new book, The Lockhart Plot: Love Betrayal, Assassination and Counter-Revolution in Lenin's Russia (Oxford UP, 2020). Schneer's recounts the story of a young British diplomat, Bruce Lockhart, sent to Soviet Russia soon after the October Revolution in 1917. Initially seeking some sort of accommodation with the Bolsheviks, Lockhart ends up plotting to overthrow the regime. The plot--set for September 1918--fails for all sorts of reasons, not least of which the plotters were outsmarted at every turn by Felix Dzerzhinsky, the head of the newly formed Cheka. The plot and its failure are a minor footnote of history. The book's great value is its description of the chaos in Moscow and St. Petersburg, Western intelligence efforts, the political geography of early Soviet Russia, and the personal lives of many of the leading characters. Lockhart's leading lady at the time of the plot, Moura von Benckendorff, is her own "force of history." For her, the Lockhart plot would end up being only one of many exciting moments of a long and dramatic life.   Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

First, we head to the Events bracket where we find one of the favorites to win Battle Ground History, World War II go up against the Fall of the Berlin Wall. Then, moving over to the Villain bracket, we find another favorite, Adolph Hitler, face off against the leader of the first Soviet secret police agency, the Cheka, Felix Dzerzhinsky. Find out who move on to the second round.Support the show (http://www.battlegroundhistory.com)

At the beginning of the twentieth century, the Russian nobility numbered about 1.9 million people, or 1.5 percent of the population. The 1917 Revolution and the Russian Civil War would all but obliterate this class, as many nobles were dispossessed, killed or driven into exile. By 1921, Felix Dzerzhinsky, the head of the Cheka, could rightly boast, “The landowners as a class have disappeared, the bourgeoisie has been declassed, the political masters are now non-entities.” Indeed, as the Civil War ebbed, no more than 50,000 former nobles, or twelve percent of its prerevolutionary population, remained in Russia. It is the story of those former nobles that stayed in Soviet Russia that Douglas Smith‘s Former People: The Final Days of the Russian Aristocracy (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2012) seeks to tell. Through the trials and tribulations of two prominent noble families, the Sheremetevs and Golitsyns, Smith paints a general picture of how the former nobility experienced life and death under the Soviets. But that is not all. Former People is ultimately an incredibly readable, vivid, emotional human story of survival, accommodation, and reconciliation. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

At the beginning of the twentieth century, the Russian nobility numbered about 1.9 million people, or 1.5 percent of the population. The 1917 Revolution and the Russian Civil War would all but obliterate this class, as many nobles were dispossessed, killed or driven into exile. By 1921, Felix Dzerzhinsky, the head of the Cheka, could rightly boast, “The landowners as a class have disappeared, the bourgeoisie has been declassed, the political masters are now non-entities.” Indeed, as the Civil War ebbed, no more than 50,000 former nobles, or twelve percent of its prerevolutionary population, remained in Russia. It is the story of those former nobles that stayed in Soviet Russia that Douglas Smith‘s Former People: The Final Days of the Russian Aristocracy (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2012) seeks to tell. Through the trials and tribulations of two prominent noble families, the Sheremetevs and Golitsyns, Smith paints a general picture of how the former nobility experienced life and death under the Soviets. But that is not all. Former People is ultimately an incredibly readable, vivid, emotional human story of survival, accommodation, and reconciliation. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

At the beginning of the twentieth century, the Russian nobility numbered about 1.9 million people, or 1.5 percent of the population. The 1917 Revolution and the Russian Civil War would all but obliterate this class, as many nobles were dispossessed, killed or driven into exile. By 1921, Felix Dzerzhinsky, the... Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices