The Blumkin Project: A Biographical Novel

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Synopsis
This page-turning biographical novel follows the footsteps of a forgotten legend of the Russian Revolution, from Odessa to Moscow, Istanbul, and beyond. Yakov Blumkin claimed to have had nine lives. Born to a poor Jewish family and orphaned as a child, he 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 a powerful curiosity, and wild rumors and falsehoods about his extraordinary life abound today. As a young man in 1980s Paris, Christian Salmon identified strongly as a Bolshevik, drawn to the glorious October Revolution immortalized in literature and films such as Warren Beatty&’s Reds and Sergei Eisenstein&’s trilogy. Picking up the thread of his dream thirty years later, he sets out to reconstruct Blumkin&’s shadowy past and ever-shifting identity with a trove of manuscripts, documents, rare photographs, and personal souvenirs.
Copyright:
2017

Book Details

Book Quality:
Publisher Quality
Book Size:
352 Pages
ISBN-13:
9781635429978
Related ISBNs:
9781590511541
Publisher:
Other Press
Date of Addition:
Copyrighted By:
Éditions La Découverte, Paris
Adult content:
No
Language:
English
Has Image Descriptions:
No
Categories:
Biographies and Memoirs, Literature and Fiction, Mystery and Thrillers, Politics and Government
Submitted By:
Bookshare Staff
Usage Restrictions:
This is a copyrighted book.
Translator:
William Rodarmor

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