{"product_id":"memoirs-of-a-revolutionary-9781590174517","title":"Memoirs of a Revolutionary","description":"A New York Review Books Original \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Victor Serge is one of the great men of the 20th century --and one of its great writers too. He was an anarchist, an agitator, a revolutionary, an exile, a historian of his times, as well as a brilliant novelist, and in \u003ci\u003eMemoirs of a Revolutionary\u003c\/i\u003e he devotes all his passion and genius to describing this extraordinary--and exemplary--career. Serge tells of his upbringing among exiles and conspirators, of his involvement with the notorious Bonnot Gang and his years in prison, of his role in the Russian Revolution, and of the Revolution's collapse into despotism and terror. Expelled from the Soviet Union, Serge went to Paris, where he evaded the KGB and the Nazis before fleeing to Mexico. \u003ci\u003eMemoirs of a Revolutionary\u003c\/i\u003e recounts a thrilling life on the front lines of history and includes vivid portraits not only of Trotsky, Lenin, and Stalin but of countless other figures who struggled to remake the world. \u003cbr\u003e Peter Sedgwick's fine translation of \u003ci\u003eMemoirs of a Revolutionary\u003c\/i\u003e was abridged when first published in 1963. This is the first edition in English to present the entirety of Serge's book.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Victor Serge\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e New York Review of Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 05\/01\/2012\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 576\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.23lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.01h x 5.07w x 1.22d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781590174517\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eVictor Serge (1890-1947) was born Victor Lvovich Kibalchich to Russian anti-Tsarist exiles, impoverished intellectuals living \"by chance\" in Brussels. A precocious anarchist firebrand, young Victor was sentenced to five years in a French penitentiary in 1912. Expelled to Spain in 1917, he participated in an anarcho-syndicalist uprising before leaving to join the Revolution in Russia. Detained for more than a year in a French concentration camp, Serge arrived in St.\u003cbr\u003ePetersburg early in 1919 and joined the Bolsheviks, serving in the press services of the Communist International. An outspoken critic of Stalin, Serge was expelled from the Party and arrested in 1929. Nonetheless, he managed to complete three novels (\u003ci\u003eMen in Prison\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eBirth of Our Power\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eConquered City\u003c\/i\u003e) and a history (\u003ci\u003eYear One of the Russian Revolution\u003c\/i\u003e), published in Paris. Arrested again in Russia and deported to Central Asia in 1933, he was allowed to leave the\u003cbr\u003eUSSR in 1936 after international protests by militants and prominent writers like André Gide and Romain Rolland. Using his insider's knowledge, Serge published a stream of impassioned, documented exposés of Stalin's Moscow show trials and of machinations in Spain, which went largely unheeded. Stateless, penniless, hounded by Stalinist agents, Serge lived in precarious exile in Brussels, Paris, Vichy France, and Mexico City, where he died in 1947. His classic \u003ci\u003eMemoirs of a Revolutionary\u003c\/i\u003e and his great last novels, \u003ci\u003eUnforgiving Years\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Case of Comrade Tulayev\u003c\/i\u003e (both available as NYRB Classics), were written \"for the desk drawer\" and published posthumously. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003ePeter Sedgwick (1934-1983) translated and wrote the introductions for Victor Serge's \u003ci\u003eMemoirs\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eYear One of the Russian Revolution\u003c\/i\u003e. A lifelong activist and a founding member of the New Left in Britain, he wrote seminal essays on Serge. In addition to his journalism and political writings, he is the author of a book, \u003ci\u003ePsycho-Politics\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAdam Hochschild has written for \u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eHarper's\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eMagazine\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe New York Review of Books\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eThe Nation\u003c\/i\u003e. His books include \u003ci\u003eKing Leopold's Ghost\u003c\/i\u003e and, most recently, \u003ci\u003eTo End All Wars\u003c\/i\u003e. He teaches at the Graduate School of Journalism at the University of California, Berkeley. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eGeorge Paizis is the author of \u003ci\u003eMarcel Martinet: Poet of the Revolution\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eLove and the Novel: The Poetics and Politics of Romantic Fiction\u003c\/i\u003e, and, with Andrew N. Leak, \u003ci\u003e The Holocaust and the Text: Speaking the Unspeakable\u003c\/i\u003e. He is a longstanding member of the Socialist Workers Party and until recently was Senior Lecturer in the French Department at University College London. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eRichard Greeman has translated and written the introductions for five of Serge's novels (including \u003ci\u003eUnforgiving Years\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eConquered City\u003c\/i\u003e, both available as NYRB Classics). A veteran Socialist and co-founder of the Praxis Center and Victor Serge Library in Moscow, Russia (www.praxiscenter.ru), Greeman is author of \u003ci\u003eBeware Of \"Vegetarian\" Sharks: Radical Rants And Internationalist Essays.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"booksdeli.com","offers":[{"title":"Victor Serge \/ Paperback \/ English","offer_id":47566665154717,"sku":"9781590174517","price":42.77,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0619\/5648\/9373\/files\/img_b3b82021-85a7-4b58-bc02-2732b746e2df.jpg?v=1768314476","url":"https:\/\/booksdeli.com\/products\/memoirs-of-a-revolutionary-9781590174517","provider":"booksdeli.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}