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An extraordinary account of the first year of the Russian
Revolution, written by its most keen firsthand observer. Serge
exposes the heart of the vital first year of the most important
working class revolution in history.
"Serge searingly evokes the epochal hopes and shattering
setbacks of a generation of leftists."--"Bookforum"
Following in the wake of the carnage reaped across Europe by
world war, German workers undertook a struggle that would prove
decisive in determining the course of the entire twentieth century.
In 1923 the fledgling Comintern dispatched Victor Serge, with his
peerless journalistic skills, to Berlin to expedite the German
Revolution and write these moving reports from the battlefront.
Victor Serge is best known as a novelist and for his "Memoirs of
a Revolutionary." Originally a participant in the anarchist
movement, Serge became a committed bolshevik upon arrival in Russia
in 1919 and lent his considerable talents to the cause of spreading
the revolution across Europe. An eloquent critic of tyranny no
matter its form, Serge was a leading member of the Left Opposition
in its struggle against Stalin, a cause which ultimately resulted
in his exile from Russia.
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Last Times (Paperback)
Victor Serge, Ralph Manheim
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One cold Moscow night, Comrade Tulayev, a high government official,
is shot dead on the street, and the search for the killer begins.
In this panoramic vision of the Soviet Great Terror, the
investigation leads all over the world, netting a whole series of
suspects whose only connection is their innocence--at least of the
crime of which they stand accused. But "The Case of Comrade
Tulayev," unquestionably the finest work of fiction ever written
about the Stalinist purges, is not just a story of a totalitarian
state. Marked by the deep humanity and generous spirit of its
author, the legendary anarchist and exile Victor Serge, it is also
a classic twentieth-century tale of risk, adventure, and unexpected
nobility to set beside Ernest Hemingway's" For Whom the Bell Tolls"
and Andre Malraux's "Man's Fate."
The Life and Death of Leon Trotsky provides an invaluable picture
of Leon Trotsky's intimate experience as both a leader of, and
outcast exile from, the Russian Revolution. Victor Serge and
Natalia Sedova's portrait brings Trotsky's extraordinary life to
life in a new way, while Richard Greemanus introduction offers
fresh context.
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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Men In Prison (Paperback)
Victor Serge
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Victor Serge served 5 years in French penitentiaries (1912-1917)
for the crime of 'criminal association' - in fact for his
courageous refusal to testify against his old comrades, the
infamous 'Tragic Bandits' of French anarchism. Serge returned to
writing upon his release from a GPU prison in Soviet Russia, where
he was arrested as an anti-Stalinist subversive in 1928. He
completed 'Men in Prison' in semi-captivity before he was
rearrested and deported to the Gulag in 1933.
In 1933, Victor Serge was arrested by Stalin's police,
interrogated, and held in solitary confinement for more than eighty
days. Released, he spent two years in exile in remote Orenburg.
These experiences were the inspiration for "Midnight in the
Century," Serge's searching novel about revolutionaries living in
the shadow of Stalin's betrayal of the revolution.
Among the exiles--true believers in a cause that no longer
exists--gathered in the town of Chenor, or Black Waters, are the
granite-faced old Bolshevik Ryzhik, stoic yet gentle Varvara, and
Rodion, a young, self-educated worker who is trying to make sense
of the world and history. They struggle in the unlikely company of
Russian Orthodox Old Believers who are also suffering for their
faith. Against unbelievable odds, the young Rodion will escape
captivity and find a new life in the wild. Surviving the dark
winter night of the soul, he rediscovers the only real, and most
radical, form of resistance: hope.
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"Unforgiving Years" is a thrilling and terrifying journey into the
disastrous, blazing core of the twentieth century. Victor Serge's
final novel, here translated into English for the first time, is at
once the most ambitious, bleakest, and most lyrical of this
neglected major writer's works.
The book is arranged into four sections, like the panels of an
immense mural or the movements of a symphony. In the first, D, a
lifelong revolutionary who has broken with the Communist Party and
expects retribution at any moment, flees through the streets of
prewar Paris, haunted by the ghosts of his past and his fears for
the future. Part two finds D's friend and fellow revolutionary
Daria caught up in the defense of a besieged Leningrad, the horrors
and heroism of which Serge brings to terrifying life. The third
part is set in Germany. On a dangerous assignment behind the lines,
Daria finds herself in a city destroyed by both Allied bombing and
Nazism, where the populace now confronts the prospect of total
defeat. The novel closes in Mexico, in a remote and prodigiously
beautiful part of the New World where D and Daria are reunited,
hoping that they may at last have escaped the grim reckonings of
their modern era.
A visionary novel, a political novel, a novel of adventure,
passion, and ideas, of despair and, against all odds, of hope,
"Unforgiving Years" is a rediscovered masterpiece by the author of
"The Case of Comrade Tulayev"
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The Serge-Trotsky Papers (Paperback)
Victor Serge, L. Trotskii; Volume editing by David Cotterill; Translated by Maria Enzenberger, Maria Enzensberger
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Leon Trotsky and Victor Serge represent the great and tragic
oppositional figures to Stalin's dictatorial grip on the Soviet
Union in the late 1920s and 1930s. Written during this period, the
letters exchanged between these two friends are published here
together with material from both the Trotsky Archive at Harvard and
the Serge Archive in Mexico.
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