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The classic prison novel from 1930, translated by and with an introduction from Richard Greeman. Serge served 5 years in French penitentiaries for the crime of 'criminal association'.

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In 1923 history stood at a cross roads. Serge unapologetically lent his pen to those fighting for international workers' revolution.

The first translation to present the entirety of Serge's book.

Assailed by counter-revolution from within and without, Victor Serge brings to life the unwavering revolutionary commitment of red Petrograd.

A New York Review Books Original 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, ...

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Serge's classic novel based on his own experience of being arrested, interrogated and held in solitary confinement by Stalin's police in 1933. A prison camp tale which reveals the inner workings of a police state. Translated and with a introduction by Richard Greenman.

Birth of Our Power is an epic novel set in Spain, France, and Russia during the heady revolutionary years 1917-1919. Serge's tale begins in the spring of 1917, the third year of mass slaughter in the blood-and-rain-soaked trenches of World War I. When the flames of revolution suddenly erupt in Russia and Spain, Europe is "burning at both ends." Although the Spanish uprising eventually fizzles, in Russia the workers, peasants, and common soldie...

Anarchists Never Surrender provides a complete picture of Victor Serge's relationship to anarchism. The volume contains writings going back to his teenage years in Brussels, where he became influenced by the doctrine of individualist anarchism. At the heart of the anthology are key articles written soon after his arrival in Paris in 1909, when he became editor of the newspaper l'anarchie. In these articles Serge develops and debates his own ra...

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Sono uomini e donne deportati in Siberia i protagonisti del romanzo, e le storie di questi trotzkisti - che si incontrano in uno sperduto villaggio ai confini del mondo, si legano di amicizia, si confrontano, si amano - ci raccontano gli anni strazianti in cui tanti, come Serge, furono imprigionati a causa della loro aperta opposizione al regime staliniano. Sono uno spaccato, a forti tinte autobiografiche, del mondo di brutalità dove Stalin ha...

Victor Serge (1890-1947) played many parts, as he recounted in his indelible Memoirs of a Revolutionary. The son of anti-czarist exiles in Brussels, Serge was a young anarchist in Paris, a syndicalist rebel in Barcelona, a Bolshevik in Petrograd, a Comintern agent in Central Europe, a comrade of Trotsky's, a friend of writers like Andrei Bely, Boris Pilnyak, and André Breton, a prisoner of Stalin, a dissident Marxist in exile in Mexico... Like...

This classic expose of political repression in czarist Russia will be chillingly familiar to activists today.

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Ich habe Europa mehrmals sein Gesicht wechseln sehen.Ich habe Europa im Überfluß gekannt, optimistisch, liberal, und schmutzig vom Geld beherrscht. Wir jungen idealistischen Arbeiter waren etwa zwanzig Jahre alt und zeitweise waren wir wütend und verzweifelt wegen der Mauer vor uns: wir sahen nichts jenseits einer ewigen ungerechten und selbstzufriedenen Bürgerwelt.

1919-1920: St. Petersburg, city of the czars, has fallen to the Revolution. Camped out in the splendid palaces of the former regime, the city's new masters seek to cement their control, even as the counterrevolutionary White Army regroups. "Conquered City, " Victor Serge's most unrelenting narrative, is structured like a detective story, one in which the new political regime tracks down and eliminates its enemies--the spies, speculators, and t...

It is often said" wrote Victor Serge, "that the germ of all Stalinism was in Bolshevism at its beginning". Bolshevism also contained many other germs and this book, an eye-witness account, shows the many germs, the many new possibilities, that were present as a result of the workers' revolution of 1917. While Serge reveals the forces that were to produce the Stalinist dictatorship, he also shows how this was far from inevitable. For in the fir...

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 writt...