Other Anti-Bolshevik Plots & Related Events (1918–1922)*
"Similar" is a bit ambiguous, so I'll assume you mean other conspiracies and covert operations against the early Bolshevik government, in the same vein as the Lockhart Plot.
**Other Anti-Bolshevik Plots & Related Events (1918–1922)**
**The Envoys' Conspiracy / Ambassadors' Plot (same era as Lockhart)**
Sometimes used interchangeably with the Lockhart Plot, this refers to the broader Allied diplomatic effort in Moscow to fund and coordinate White Russian and anti-Bolshevik forces, involving the American consul DeWitt Poole and French officer Henri de Vertement alongside Lockhart.
**Boris Savinkov's Uprisings (July 1918)**
Savinkov, a former revolutionary-turned-anti-Bolshevik, led the "Union for the Defense of Motherland and Freedom," staging armed uprisings in Yaroslavl, Rybinsk, and Murom against Bolshevik rule — brutally suppressed. He later worked with Western intelligence and was eventually lured back to the USSR and arrested in 1924, dying (officially by suicide, though this is disputed) in Lubyanka prison.
**The Left Socialist-Revolutionary Uprising (July 1918)**
Left SRs, former Bolshevik coalition partners, assassinated German ambassador Wilhelm von Mirbach to sabotage the Brest-Litovsk peace, then attempted an uprising in Moscow. The Cheka (ironically then largely staffed by Left SRs) helped crush it — a turning point that made the Cheka a purely Bolshevik instrument.
**Fanny Kaplan's Assassination Attempt on Lenin (August 1918)**
A Socialist-Revolutionary shot and wounded Lenin outside a Moscow factory. She was executed within days without a public trial. This, alongside the Uritsky assassination, was the immediate trigger for the formal "Red Terror" decree.
**The Sidney Reilly Network**
Beyond Lockhart, Reilly ran his own parallel intrigue — reportedly planning to have loyalist troops storm a joint Bolshevik leadership session and possibly execute Lenin and Trotsky publicly rather than covertly.
**The "Trust" Operation (1921–1926)**
A later, more sophisticated Cheka/OGPU counterintelligence operation — a fake anti-Bolshevik monarchist organization set up to lure and expose Western intelligence assets and White émigré operatives, including luring Sidney Reilly back into the USSR in 1925, where he was captured and shot.
Want me to expand on any of these — the Left SR uprising, Savinkov, or the later "Trust" deception operation?
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