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Author Jordan, Pamela A., 1965- author.

Title Stalin's singing spy : the life and exile of Nadezhda Plevitskaya / Pamela A. Jordan
Published Lanham : Rowman and Littlefield, [2016]

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Description 1 online resource (xi, 367 pages)
Contents Dezhka's journey -- Years of fame and fortune -- Revolution and war -- Early years in exile -- 1930 -- Double life -- The kidnapping of General Miller -- Skoblin's exit -- Caged nightingale -- The investigation -- "La Plevitzkaia" on trial -- The verdict -- Appeal -- Death of a nightingale -- Epilogue
Summary "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"--Provided by publisher
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 341-352) and index
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Subject Plevit︠s︡kai︠a︡, Nadezhda Vasilʹevna, 1884-1940.
Plevit︠s︡kai︠a︡, Nadezhda Vasilʹevna, 1884-1940 -- Trials, litigation, etc
Miller, Evgeniĭ Karlovich, 1867-1939 -- Kidnapping
Miller, Evgeniĭ Karlovich, 1867-1939
Plevit︠s︡kai︠a︡, Nadezhda Vasilʹevna, 1884-1940
Women spies -- Soviet Union -- Biography
Spies -- Soviet Union -- Biography
Trials (Kidnapping) -- France -- Paris -- History -- 20th century
Women singers -- Russia -- Biography
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Political.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Government -- International.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- International Relations -- General.
Kidnapping
Spies
Trials (Kidnapping)
Women singers
Women spies
Soviet Union -- History -- 1917-1936 -- Biography
Russia -- History -- Nicholas II, 1894-1917 -- Biography
France -- Paris
Russia
Soviet Union
Genre/Form Biographies
History
Trials, litigation, etc.
Biographies.
Biographies.
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2020739044
ISBN 9781442247741
1442247746