Murder and Poetic Inspiration: Killing Fanny Kaplan, 1918 February 20, 2015
Author: Beach Combing | in : Contemporary
The Soviet Union is infinitely ghastly and fascinating. Sometime it is the sheer scale of horror, sometimes, as today, it is the surreally Marxist details that astonish in this case the collusion of murder and poetry. 30 August 1918 an attempt was made on Lenin’s life in Moscow. The probable assassin was a half blind, […]
