Memoirs of a Revolutionary 1905-1945

Born in Belgium to an immigrant Russian family, Victor Serge entered the literary world and politics as an anarchist revolutionary at a young age. Serge, who settled in Paris in 1909, was sentenced to five years in prison and crowned this experience years later with his novel The Insiders . Serge, who was deported after prison, settled in Barcelona, where he participated in the July 1917 anarchist uprising, and from there he secretly went to France, where he was imprisoned. Since he was a Russian immigrant, he came to Russia through an exchange with the Soviets. He discussed this experience in his novel The Birth of Our Power .

Serge, who joined the Russian Communist Party in 1919, took part in the defense of Petrograd against Yudenich and became a close witness of the most important events of the twenties as a journalist, translator and secretary. His work, published in Turkish as Notes to the Militant , benefiting from the archives of the Tsar's secret police, was prepared as an essay on the methods used by the police. Serge, a member of the Left Opposition, was sentenced to three years of exile in 1933, and as a result of an international campaign, he left Russia, where he lost his citizenship, a few months before the start of the Moscow Trials.

Serge's memoirs , which first went to Marseille and then to Mexico, draw exceptional portraits of the writers and politicians he knew, as well as the important events he witnessed in the twentieth century, have a special political as well as literary importance.

(From the Promotional Bulletin)

Dough Type: 2nd Dough

Number of Pages: 543

Size: 13 x 21

First Printing Year: 2018

Number of Printings: 1st Edition