[1] Bleiman studied history and philology in Rostov between 1920 and 1923 and at the Valerii Briusov Higher Institute for Literature and Art [ru] in Moscow in 1923–1924.
Bleiman’s first two scripts were made into satirical shorts: History of an Advance Payment (Istoriia odnogo avansa, 1924), a morality tale about the dangers of alcohol abuse, and The Adventures of Vanka Gvozd (Pokhozhdeniia Vanki Gvozdia, 1924), a mockery of the Orthodox Church.
[2][3] Bleiman’s most well-known work is the screenplay for Fridrikh Ermler’s The Great Citizen (1937–1939, co-authored with Bolshintsov), a reflection of Stalinist strategies within the Bolshevik Party in the 1930s, showing Joseph Stalin’s struggle against the “leftist and rightist oppositions".
Bleiman was also successful with war dramas, authoring or co-authoring the scripts for Yuli Raizman’s Moscow Sky (1944), Leonid Lukov’s It Happened in the Donbas (1945), and most notably for Boris Barnet’s Secret Agent (with [[Konstantin Isaev]] [ru]), a spy film that won both the director and the screenwriters Stalin Prizes.
In 1948–1949, despite his loyal service to Stalin and the Communist Party, he became one of the major targets of the anti-Semitic campaign “against cosmopolitanism.” Among his noteworthy later screenwriting efforts are the Civil War story Restless Youth (Trevozhnaia molodost’, 1954)—the directing debut of Aleksandr Alov and Vladimir Naumov — and a hugely popular espionage dilogy, The Road to 'Saturn' (1967) and The End of Saturn (1968).