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EAN : 9782707186188
Shaping : BROCHE
Pages : 288
Size : 135 x 220 mm
THE BLUMKIN PROJECT

Collection : Cahiers libres
Release date : 24/08/2017
Over 30 years ago, Christian Salmon abandoned his project to write a biography about a forgotten legend of the Russian Revolution: Yakov Blumkin, a terrorist, member of Cheka, poet, military strategist and secret agent, who was executed, aged 29, on the orders of Stalin.
Years went by until, when moving house,...
Over 30 years ago, Christian Salmon abandoned his project to write a biography about a forgotten legend of the Russian Revolution: Yakov Blumkin, a terrorist, member of Cheka, poet, military strategist and secret agent, who was executed, aged 29, on the orders of Stalin.
Years went by until, when moving house, the author discovered a trunk containing the archives of the Blumkin Project. It contained manuscripts, documents, rare photographs and personal souvenirs. He realized that since the end of the USSR Russian Internet users have been using Blumkin as a pseudonym and that rumors and falsehoods about this legendary character continue to abound.
This prompted him to take up writing the biography again.

Yakov Blumkin claimed to have had nine lives. He was the assassin of the German ambassador, a poet close to the avant-garde, Trotsky’s secretary and an essential strategic asset on a variety of occasions and latitudes. A new account was required to follow as closely as possible this historic, decisive but ghostly figure’s travels.
An unusual journey in the footsteps of a forgotten legend of the Russian Revolution.

 
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EAN : 9782707186188
Shaping : BROCHE
Pages : 288
Size : 135 x 220 mm
La Découverte