"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.
- ISBN10 128326403X
- ISBN13 9781283264037
- Publish Date 1 January 2011 (first published 20 August 2000)
- Publish Status Active
- Out of Print 25 March 2015
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Haymarket Books
- Format eBook
- Language English