The Blumkin Project: The Untold Story of a Russian Poet and Terrorist

by Salmon, Christian
ISBN: 9781590511541
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Overview

This page-turning biography follows in 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 only twenty-nine years old, he has continued to inspire a powerful curiosity: Since the fall of the Soviet Union, Russian Internet users have been adopting "Blumkin" as a pseudonym, 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 multi-faceted figure.

  • Format: Trade Paperback
  • Author: Salmon, Christian
  • ISBN: 9781590511541
  • Condition: Used
  • Number Of Pages: 288
  • Publication Year: 2022
Language: English