Brimming with the honesty and passionate conviction for which he has become famous, Victor Serge s account of the first year of the Russian Revolutionthrough all of its achievements and challengescaptures both the heroism of the mass upsurge that gave birth to soviet democracy, and the crippling circumstances that began to chip away at its historic gains. Year One of the Russian Revolution is Serge s attempt to defend the early days of the revolution against those, like Stalin, who would claim its legacy as justification for the repression of dissent within Russia."
Brimming with the honesty and passionate conviction for which he has become famous, Victor Serge s account of the first year of the Russian Revolution...
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 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...
In 1933, Victor Serge was arrested by Stalin s police, interrogated, and held in solitary confinement for more than eighty days. Released, he spent...
Victor Serge Natalia Ivanovna Sedova Richard Greeman
Leon Trotsky was one of the leaders of the Russian Revolution who was exiled and murdered following Stalin's rise to power. Written by two of his closest collaborators, this book provides an invaluable picture of a great revolutionary and the world-historic events in which he was a leading actor.
Leon Trotsky was one of the leaders of the Russian Revolution who was exiled and murdered following Stalin's rise to power. Written by two of his clos...
