The Eitingons
Subtitle: a twentieth-century story
By: Mary-Kay Wilmers
Edition: 1st pbk. ed.
Publisher: Verso
Published: 2012
Place of publication: London; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 476
ISBN-13: 9781844679003
Subjects: Family; Spies; Biography; Soviet Espionage; History; Politics and government; Social conditions; Families
Description: "Leonid Eitingon was a KGB assassin who dedicated his life to the Soviet regime. He was in China in the early 1920s, in Turkey in the late 1920s, in Spain during the Civil War and, crucially, in Mexico, helping to organize the assassination of Trotsky. 'As long as I live', Stalin said, 'not a hair of his head shall be touched.' It did not work out like that. Max Eitingon was a psychoanalyst and a colleague, friend and protégé 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, questioned by the FBI. Was Motty everybody's friend or everybody's enemy?"--Back cover.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 445-453) and index.