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Stalin's Singing Spy follows the remarkable life of Nadezhda
Plevitskaya, a Russian peasant girl who achieved fame as one of
Tsar Nicholas II's favorite singers and infamy as one of Stalin's
agents. Pamela A. Jordan traces Plevitskaya's life from her
childhood in an isolated village to national stardom. She always
declared that she was foremost an artist who sang for all people,
regardless of their ideological leanings or socioeconomic
background. She claimed throughout her career to be fundamentally
apolitical, yet decades later in Europe, Plevitskaya was unmasked
as one of Joseph Stalin's secret agents along with her husband,
White Russian General Nikolai Skoblin. Their experiences in exile
shed light on Stalin's covert operations and the hardships Russian
emigres faced in interwar Europe, an era of great political and
economic turmoil. In addition, this book uncovers the roles that
the couple played in one of the Soviets' major intelligence
coups-the 1937 kidnapping of White Russian General Evgeny Miller in
Paris. Jordan recreates Plevitskaya's sensationalized 1938 criminal
trial in the Palace of Justice, where she was accused of conspiring
to kidnap Miller and portrayed as a Red femme fatale. The first
Western biography of Plevitskaya and the first to reconstruct her
dramatic trial, this book provides a fascinating window into
Soviet-era espionage in interwar Europe.
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