Jonathan Schneer
Author of The Balfour Declaration: The Origins of the Arab-Israeli Conflict
About the Author
Jonathan Schneer is professor of modern British history at the Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta.
Works by Jonathan Schneer
The Lockhart Plot: Love, Betrayal, Assassination and Counter-Revolution in Lenin's Russia (2020) 20 copies, 1 review
The MX Book of New Sherlock Holmes Stories - Part XLIV — Author — 2 copies
Associated Works
Imperial Cities: Landscape, Display and Identity (Studies in Imperialism) (1999) — Contributor — 7 copies
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- 1948-08-09
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- Dr. Jonathan Schneer, who received his BA from McGill University in 1971 and his PhD from Columbia University in 1978, is the modern British historian at Georgia Tech in the School of History and Sociology. He is a co-editor of two books, and the author of six more, including London 1900; The Imperial Metropolis, The Thames: England's River and most recently The Balfour Declaration: The Origins of the Arab-Israeli Conflict which won a 2010 National Jewish Book Award. He has published articles in leading scholarly journals and collections of essays. He was a founding member of the Radical History Review and served as its book review editor for seven years. He also served for many years on the editorial board of Twentieth Century British History. He is a member of the advisory board of the London Journal. He has received fellowships from the Whiting Foundation, the American Council of Learned Societies and from numerous Oxford and Cambridge colleges. In 2003 he was the Visiting Senior Research Fellow at St. John's College, Oxford. At Georgia Tech he teaches modern British and modern European history to undergraduate and graduate students. His book about Winston Churchill's War Cabinet will be published by Basic Books in the US in April, 2015 and by Oneworld Press in the UK in March, 2015.
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The Balfour Declaration: The Origins of the… by Jonathan Schneer
I first heard of the Lockhart Plot, as many others will have done, in the British television series from the 1980s, Reilly: Ace of Spies. That was a largely fictionalised version of the story, but to be fair the story itself reads like fiction.
Bruce Lockhart, a young and very talented British diplomat travelled to Russia in 1918 to make a deal with the Bolsheviks: stay in the world war on Britain’s side and we will help you. When that didn’t pan out, he switched sides and decided, together with a handful of his associates (including the notorious Sidney Reilly) and suitcases full of cash, to overthrow the Soviet regime.
Looking back at how it all turned out, it seems an inevitable failure and Lockhart was crazy to try it. But at the time, the idea of bribing the Latvian soldiers who were tasked with guarding the Bolshevik leaders in the Kremlin — combined with the landing of British troops in northern Russia, the attempted coup by the legendary terrorist Boris Savinkov, the anti-German uprising of the Left Social Revolutionaries, and the assassination attempt on Lenin — may have seemed more plausible.
The Lockhart plot is one of the great “what ifs” of the history of the twentieth century and Jonathan Schneer has done an outstanding job telling the story (as much as it can be hold — and there is much that we do not know) well. Highly recommended.… (more)
Bruce Lockhart, a young and very talented British diplomat travelled to Russia in 1918 to make a deal with the Bolsheviks: stay in the world war on Britain’s side and we will help you. When that didn’t pan out, he switched sides and decided, together with a handful of his associates (including the notorious Sidney Reilly) and suitcases full of cash, to overthrow the Soviet regime.
Looking back at how it all turned out, it seems an inevitable failure and Lockhart was crazy to try it. But at the time, the idea of bribing the Latvian soldiers who were tasked with guarding the Bolshevik leaders in the Kremlin — combined with the landing of British troops in northern Russia, the attempted coup by the legendary terrorist Boris Savinkov, the anti-German uprising of the Left Social Revolutionaries, and the assassination attempt on Lenin — may have seemed more plausible.
The Lockhart plot is one of the great “what ifs” of the history of the twentieth century and Jonathan Schneer has done an outstanding job telling the story (as much as it can be hold — and there is much that we do not know) well. Highly recommended.… (more)
I had expected more of a general look at the London of 1900 (cp. with "London 1945" by Maureen Waller), but to my disappointment, this turned out to be a somewhat dreary exercise in race, class and gender politics, with the incidents and personalities in question being given somewhat more prominence than they deserve in retrospect. About the best that can be said for the book is that choice of illustrations is good; the section on the docklands and the life there was probably the best of the writing in the book. Can't say I recommend.… (more)
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