Title: The Eitingons
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.
Subjects: Politics and government, Family, Social conditions, Soviet Espionage, History, Biography, Spies, Espionage, Soviet union, politics and government, Soviet union, social conditions, New York Times reviewed, Soviet union, biography, Soviet union, politics and government, 1917-1991
Places: Soviet Union
People: Mary-Kay Wilmers, Eitingon family
Time periods: 1917-1945, 20th century