The Blumkin Project by Christian Salmon

The Blumkin Project by Christian Salmon

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.

William Rodarmor is a children's and young adult book author, artist, and translator. The Last Giants, The Old Man Crazy About Drawing: A Story of Hokusai, Catherine Certitude, and Ultimate Game: A Novel are among his published works.

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ISBN 13	9781590511541
ISBN 10	1590511549
Title	The Blumkin Project
Author	Christian Salmon
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Other Press LLC
Year published	2022-09-27
Number of pages	352
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