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The Eitingons : A Twentieth-Century Story - Mary-Kay Wilmers

The Eitingons

A Twentieth-Century Story

By: Mary-Kay Wilmers

Paperback | 1 October 2017 | Edition Number 2

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Reissued for the centenary of the Russian Revolution in 2017, The Eitingons is an astonishing family history that shines new light on the intrigue, assassinations, and secrets of the Cold War.

Leonid Eitingon was a KGB killer who dedicated his life to the Soviet regime. He was in China in the early 1920s, in Spain during the Civil War, and, crucially, in Mexico when Trotsky was assassinated. 'As long as I live,' Stalin had said, 'not a hair of his head shall be touched.' It did not work out like that.

Max Eitingon was a psychoanalyst: a colleague, friend and protege of Freud's. He was rich, secretive and - through his friendship with a famous Russian singer - implicated in the abduction of a white Russian general in Paris in 1937.

Motty Eitingon was a New York fur dealer whose connections with the Soviet Union made him the largest trader in the world. Imprisoned by the Bolsheviks, and questioned by the FBI in a state of Cold War paranoia: was Motty everybody's friend or everybody's enemy?

Mary-Kay Wilmers began exploring the history of her remarkable family twenty years ago. The result is a book of astonishing scope and thrilling originality which throws light into some of the darkest corners of the last century. At the centre of the story stands the author herself - ironic, precise, searching, and stylish - wondering not only about where she is from, but about what she is entitled to know.

About the Author

Mary-Kay Wilmers is the editor of the London Review of Books.

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