TY  - BOOK
AU  - Salmon,Christian
AU  - Rodarmor,William
TI  - The Blumkin project: a biographic novel 
SN  - 9781590511541
PY  - 2022///]
CY  - New York
PB  - Other Press
KW  - Bli︠u︡mkin, I︠A︡kov Grigorʹevich,
KW  - Partii︠a︡ levykh sot︠s︡ialistov-revoli︠u︡t︠s︡ionerov (Russia)
KW  - Fiction
KW  - Russian S.F.S.R
KW  - Chrezvychaĭnai︠a︡ komissii︠a︡ po borʹbe s kontr-revoli︠u︡t︠s︡ieĭ i sabotazhem
KW  - Spy stories
KW  - Soviet Union
KW  - History
KW  - 1917-1936
KW  - Biographical fiction
KW  - lcgft
KW  - Historical fiction
KW  - Novels
N1  - "Originally published in 2017 as Le projet Blumkine by Éditions La Découverte, Paris"
N2  - "This page-turning biographical novel follows the footsteps of a forgotten legend of the Russian Revolution. Yakov Blumkin claimed to have had nine lives. He was a terrorist, the assassin of the German ambassador Wilhelm von Mirbach, a poet close to the avant-garde, a member of Cheka, a military strategist, a secret agent, and Leon Trotsky's secretary. Executed in 1929 on the orders of Stalin at the age of twenty-nine, he has continued to inspire a powerful curiosity, and wild rumors and falsehoods about his extraordinary life abound today. With a trove of manuscripts, documents, rare photographs, and personal souvenirs, writer and researcher Christian Salmon sets out to reconstruct the shadowy past of this multifaceted figure"--
ER  -