Books written by Victor Serge

Conquered City

... Go-Between NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE Twenty Days with Julian & Little Bunny by Papa GILBERT HIGHET Poets in a Landscape JANET HobHouse The Furies HUGO von HoFMANNSTHAL The Lord Chandos Letter JAMES Hogg The Private Memoirs and Confessions ...
Men in Prison

... their sputtering lips, repressed by one out of fear, shouted by the other so as to rouse the whole room. “Ha! I hope you choke on that milk!” The whole room awoke from its lethargy to watch the old Fleming's terror-stricken retreat.
Anarchists Never Surrender: Essays, Polemics, and Correspondence on Anarchism, 1908–1938

But may their deaths be an example and etch in our memories the sublime motto of the Russian comrades: “Anarchists never surrender!” Anarchists never surrender! No more under policemen's bullets than before the shouts of the crowd or ...
Midnight in the Century

In 1933, Victor Serge was arrested by Stalin’s police, interrogated, and held in solitary confinement for more than eighty days.
Memoirs of a Revolutionary

Peter Sedgwick’s fine translation of Memoirs of a Revolutionary was abridged when first published in 1963. This is the first edition in English to present the entirety of Serge’s book.
The Case of Comrade Tulayev

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.
Last Times

Exiled in Mexico City, Serge poured his recent experience into a fast-moving, gripping novel aimed at an American audience. The book begins in a near-deserted Paris abandoned by the government, the suburbs already noisy with gunfire.
Year One of the Russian Revolution

Praise for Victor Serge “Serge is one of the most compelling of twentieth-century ethical and literary heroes.” —Susan Sontag, MacArthur Fellow and winner of the National Book Award “His political recollections are very important, ...
Notebooks: 1936-1947

Available for the first time, Victor Serge's intimate account of the last decade of his life gives a vivid look into the Franco-Russian revolutionary's life, from his liberation from Stalin's Russia to his "Mexico Years," when he wrote his ...
Revolution in Danger: Writings from Russia, 1919-1921

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

From “victory in defeat” to “defeat in victory.” The novel was composed a decade after the revolution in Leningrad, where Serge was living in semicaptivity because of his declared opposition to Stalin’s dictatorship over the ...
Unforgiving Years

The book is arranged into four sections, like the panels of an immense mural or the movements of a symphony.
Resistance

Richard Greeman writes in his introduction that Serge "spoke the truth aloud and perpetuated the spiritual tradition of the Russian revolutionary intelligentsia at the very moment when the voices of his colleagues were forced into silence ...
Men in Prison

“Everything in this book is fictional and everything is true,” wrote Victor Serge in the epigraph to Men in Prison. “I have attempted, through literary creation, to bring out the general meaning and human content of a personal ...
Year One of the Russian Revolution

Events in the Soviet Republic during the year following the October 1917 revolution; a period of anarchy, famine, blockade, massacres and counterrevolution.
Завоёванный город: Роман

Завоёванный город: Роман
Unforgiving Years

The book is arranged into four sections, like the panels of an immense mural or the movements of a symphony.
Witness to the German Revolution: Writings from Germany, 1923

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

Eyewitness account of the rise of Stalinism.
Meia-noite No Século

... estrela, mas o seu movimento não lhe era mais discernível por causa dessa sua própria insensata correria. Do mesmo modo que, mais cedo, os pássaros se viravam para vê-lo. Ele acabou ... estrela acima do horizonte e 116 • Meia-Noite no Século.