Yankees in Petrograd

When a capitalist cabal plots to assassinate Lenin, can quick-witted American workers ride to the rescue before it''s too late?--a new translation. In Shaginyan’s novel, serialized in 1924 with covers decorated by Alexander Rodchenko’s photomontages, proved wildly popular with the Soviet reading public, which followed its dizzying plot breathlessly. Settings constantly shift and characters assume multiple identities; scenes of danger, intrigue, and melodrama are interspersed with moments of comic relief. Can Thingsmaster and his allies--including a robber baron’s scion who converts to the cause of Revolution, an alluring masked woman, a doctor investigating a disease that causes fierce anti-communists to revert to proto-human form, a chimney sweep, an intelligent dog, and the General Prosecutor of Illinois--succeed in thwarting the fascists? You’ll have to read until the final chapter to find out. A satire of the sort of thrillers then appearing in

Product details

• Authors: Marietta S. Shaginyan, Jill Roese, Marietta S Shaginyan, Marietta S. Shaginyan
• Assisted by: Jill Roese (Introduction), Jill Roese (Translation)
• Publisher: The MIT Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Release: 19.08.2025
• EAN: 9780262553063
• ISBN: 978-0-262-55306-3
• No. of pages: 488
• Dimensions: 133 mm x 200 mm x 31 mm
• Series: MIT Press / Radium Age
• Subjects: Fiction > Suspense; Science Fiction, FICTION / Thrillers / Espionage, Espionage & spy thriller, FICTION / Science Fiction / General, FICTION / Science Fiction / Hard Science Fiction, Hard Science Fiction, Espionage and spy thriller