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The Lenin Plot: The Untold Story of America’s Midnight War Against Russia
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Author:
Barnes Carr
Publisher:
Pegasus Books
Date:
October 6, 2020
The surprising story of perhaps the darkest episode in American espionage history: the 'midnight war' to depose Soviet leader Vladimir Lenin.
What The Reviewers Say
... entertaining.
The story of American intervention in the Russian Civil War is well known and has been told many times before. Journalist and author Barnes Carr would have us believe, however, that there is much we still don’t know about this history, which he purports to reveal in The Lenin Plot: The Untold Story of America’s Midnight War Against Russia . The administration of President Woodrow Wilson, he writes, launched a secret operation together with Britain and France to topple the fledgling Soviet state and then assassinate Lenin and other top officials. The story Carr recounts is dramatic, but it’s not new.
... lively, if somewhat speculative.
Deep dive into an episode of history that is little known but deserves more exposure.
