A New York Review Books Original. Victor Serge is one of the great
men of the twentieth century, anarchist, revolutionary, agitator,
theoretician, historian of his times, and a fearless truthteller.
He was also a great writer, the author of dazzling works of
fiction, including the novel The Case of Comrade Tulayev, perhaps
the finest book to emerge from the crucible of Stalinist terror,
and of these no less extraordinary memoirs. Here Serge describes
his upbringing in Belgium, the child of a family of exiled Russian
revolutionary intellectuals, his early life as an activist, his
time in a French prison, the active role he played in the Russian
Revolution, as well his growing dismay at the Revolutionary
regime's ever more repressive and murderous character. Expelled
from the Soviet Union, Serge went to Paris, and barely escaped the
Nazis to find a final refuge in Mexico. Memoirs of a Revolutionary
describes a thrilling life on the frontlines of history and
includes brilliant portraits of politicians from Trotsky and Lenin
and Stalin and of major writers like Alexander Blok and Andrey
Bely. Above all, it captures the sensibility of Serge himself, that
of a courageous and singularly appealing advocate of human
liberation who remained undaunted in the most trying of times.
Peter Sedgwick's fine translation of Serge's Memoirs of a
Revolutionary was cut by a fifth when it was first published in
1963. This new edition is the first in English to present the
entirety of Serge's book.
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