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Stalin's Singing Spy

Autor Pamela A. Jordan
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 21 ian 2016
Stalin's Singing Spy follows the remarkable life of Nadezhda Plevitskaya, a Russian peasant girl who achieved fame as one of Tsar Nicholas II's favorite singers and infamy as one of Stalin's agents. Pamela A. Jordan traces Plevitskaya's life from her childhood in an isolated village to national stardom. She always declared that she was foremost an artist who sang for all people, regardless of their ideological leanings or socioeconomic background. She claimed throughout her career to be fundamentally apolitical, yet decades later in Europe, Plevitskaya was unmasked as one of Joseph Stalin's secret agents along with her husband, White Russian General Nikolai Skoblin. Their experiences in exile shed light on Stalin's covert operations and the hardships Russian migr s faced in interwar Europe, an era of great political and economic turmoil. In addition, this book uncovers the roles that the couple played in one of the Soviets' major intelligence coups--the 1937 kidnapping of White Russian General Evgeny Miller in Paris. Jordan recreates Plevitskaya's sensationalized 1938 criminal trial in the Palace of Justice, where she was accused of conspiring to kidnap Miller and portrayed as a Red femme fatale. The first Western biography of Plevitskaya and the first to reconstruct her dramatic trial, this book provides a fascinating window into Soviet-era espionage in interwar Europe.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781442247734
ISBN-10: 1442247738
Pagini: 380
Dimensiuni: 152 x 231 x 25 mm
Greutate: 0.61 kg
Editura: Rowman & Littlefield

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Acknowledgements Abbreviations Introduction 1: Dezhkäs Journey 2: Years of Fame and Fortune 3: Revolution and War 4: Early Years in Exile 5: 1930 6: Double Life 7: The Kidnapping of General Miller 8: Skoblin¿s Exit 9: Caged Nightingale 10: The Investigation 11: ¿La Plevitzkaïä on Trial 12: The Verdict 13: Appeal 14: Death of a Nightingale Epilogue Notes Bibliography Index

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Stalin's Singing Spy follows the life of Nadezhda Plevitskaya, who achieved fame as one of Nicholas II's favorite singers and infamy as one of Stalin's agents. The first Western biography and the first to reconstruct her sensationalized trial for kidnapping a White Army general, this book provides a fascinating window into Soviet-era espionage.