Copyright © Éditions La Découverte, Paris, 2017
English translation copyright © William Rodarmor, 2022
Originally published in 2017 as Le projet Blumkine
by Éditions La Découverte, Paris
Production editor: Yvonne E. Cárdenas
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The Library of Congress has cataloged the printed edition as follows:
Names: Salmon, Christian, 1951- author. | Rodarmor, William, translator.
Title: The Blumkin project : a biographic novel / Christian Salmon; translated from the French by William Rodarmor.
Other titles: Projet Blumkine. English
Description: New York : Other Press, [2022] | “Originally published in 2017 as Le projet Blumkine by Éditions La Découverte, Paris”
Identifiers: LCCN 2022012622 (print) | LCCN 2022012623 (ebook) | ISBN 9781590511541 (paperback) | ISBN 9781635429978 (ebook)
Subjects: LCSH: B
mkin, 
kov Grigorʹevich, 1900-1929—Fiction. | Part
levykh so
alistov-revo
onerov (Russia)—Fiction. | Russian S.F.S.R. Chrezvychaĭn
komiss
po borʹbe s kontr-revo
eĭ i sabotazhem—Fiction. | Spies—Soviet Union—Fiction. | Soviet Union—History—1917-1936—Fiction. | LCGFT: Biographical fiction. | Historical fiction. | Novels.
Classification: LCC PQ2679.A523858 P7613 2022 (print) | LCC PQ2679.A523858 (ebook) | DDC 843/.914—dc23/eng/20220318
LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2022012622
LC ebook record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2022012623
Ebook ISBN 9781635429978
Publisher’s Note: This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents either are the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously, and any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events, or locales is entirely coincidental.
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