{{Short description|Lithuanian-French chess player}} '''Oscar Blum''' (1886 <ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.ecforum.org.uk/viewtopic.php?t=8782|title=The Mysterious Oscar Blum - English Chess Forum|access-date=2018-02-23|archive-date=2018-11-21|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181121104156/https://www.ecforum.org.uk/viewtopic.php?t=8782|url-status=live}}</ref> – ?) was a Lithuanian–French chess master. He was pushed off Lenin's 1917 train by Lenin himself <ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.ecforum.org.uk/viewtopic.php?t=8782|title=The Mysterious Oscar Blum - English Chess Forum|access-date=2018-02-23|archive-date=2018-11-21|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181121104156/https://www.ecforum.org.uk/viewtopic.php?t=8782|url-status=live}}</ref> This incident is mentioned in Ben Kingsley's Lenin movie (Lenin...The Train), and in James Wollrab: Russian Winter p.&nbsp;206 <ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=AEyqStOE-yIC&q=oscar+blum+lenin&pg=PA206|title = Russian Winter|isbn = 9780595428045|last1 = Wollrab|first1 = James|date = February 2007}}</ref>

In 1923 his book ''Russiche Köpfe'' was published in Germany.<ref name="RK">{{cite book |last1=Blum |first1=Oskar |title=Russiche Köpfe |date=1923 |publisher=Franz Scheider Verlag |location=Berlin |url=https://archive.org/details/BlumOscarRussischeKoepfe1923}}</ref> He described Grigory Zinoviev as a dreamer, a sleepwalker, who lived in a world of pure literature.<ref name="H&M">{{cite book |last1=Haupt |first1=Georges |last2=Marie |first2=Jean-Jacques |title=Makers of the Russian Revolution: Biographies |date=2017 |publisher=Routledge |isbn=9781315400204 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=LkolDgAAQBAJ&q=Oscar+Blum+Menshevik&pg=PT97 |language=en}}</ref>

==Chess== He won, ahead of Nicolas Rossolimo and Vitaly Halberstadt, in the 8th Paris City Chess Championship in 1932.<ref>[http://heritageechecsfra.free.fr/paris1932.htm Champ Paris 1932<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref> Dr Oscar Blum played at Folkestone 1933. He participated not in the 5th Chess Olympiad but in the ''General Congress'', finishing second, half a point behind Eugene Znosko-Borovsky.<ref>[http://www.chesshistory.com/winter/winter39.html Chess Notes by Edward Winter<!-- Bot generated title -->] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080509142943/http://www.chesshistory.com/winter/winter39.html |date=2008-05-09 }}</ref><ref>[http://www.rogerpaige.me.uk/tables4.htm NED-ch08 The Hague/Leiden 1933<!-- Bot generated title -->] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070807085005/http://www.rogerpaige.me.uk/tables4.htm |date=August 7, 2007 }}</ref>

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