The Blumkin project : a biographic novel / Christian Salmon ; translated from the French by William Rodarmor.
Material type: TextLanguage: English Original language: French Publisher: New York : Other Press, [2022]Description: 336 pages ; 21 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 9781590511541
- 1590511549
- Projet Blumkine. English
Item type | Home library | Collection | Call number | Materials specified | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds | |
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Adult Book | Main Library | Fiction | SALMON, CHRISTIA | Available | 33111010947808 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
Born to a poor Jewish family and orphaned as a child, Yakov Blumkin was a Socialist Revolutionary, 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 Stalin's orders at the age of only twenty-nine, he has continued to inspire curiosity, and wild rumours about his extraordinary life abound today. This novel sets out to reconstruct Blumkin's shadowy past with a trove of manuscripts, documents, rare photographs, and personal souvenirs.
"Originally published in 2017 as Le projet Blumkine by Éditions La Découverte, Paris"
"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"-- Provided by publisher.