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Victor Serge

Born

in Brussels, Belgium

December 30, 1890

Died

November 17, 1947

Genre

Historical Fiction, Revolutionary Memoirs

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Victor Lvovich Kibalchich (В.Л. Кибальчич) was born in exile in 1890 and died in exile in 1947. He is better known as Victor Serge, a Russian revolutionary and Francophone writer. Originally an anarchist, he joined the Bolsheviks five months after arriving in Petrograd in January 1919, and later worked for the newly founded Comintern as a journalist, editor and translator. He was openly critical of the Soviet regime, but remained loyal to the ideals of socialism until his death.

After time spent in France, Belgium, Russia and Spain, Serge was forced to live out the rest of his life in Mexico, with no country he could call home. Serge's health had been badly damaged by his periods of imprisonment in France and Russia, but he continued to writ ...more

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	The Case of Comrade Tulayev by Victor Serge, William R. Trask (Translator), Susan Sontag (Introduction) 4.12 avg rating — 1,561 ratings — published 1948 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Memoirs of a Revolutionary (Sightline Books) by Victor Serge, Charles Lamb, Peter Sedgwick (Translator) 4.45 avg rating — 804 ratings — published 1951 — 48 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Unforgiving Years by Victor Serge, Richard Greeman (Introduction) 4.06 avg rating — 549 ratings — published 1971 — 14 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Conquered City 3.94 avg rating — 366 ratings — published 1932 — 11 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Midnight in the Century by Victor Serge, Richard Greeman (Translator) 4.02 avg rating — 318 ratings — published 1939 — 24 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Year One of the Russian Revolution by Victor Serge, Peter Sedgwick (Translator) 4.31 avg rating — 213 ratings — published 1930 — 27 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Men in Prison by Victor Serge, Richard Greeman (Translator) 4.05 avg rating — 174 ratings — published 1930 — 11 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Birth of Our Power 3.99 avg rating — 173 ratings — published 1931 — 19 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	What Every Radical Should Know About State Repression: A Guide for Activists by Victor Serge, Dalia Hashad (Introduction) 4.10 avg rating — 156 ratings — published 1925 — 22 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Last Times (New York Review Books Classics) by Victor Serge, Richard Greeman (Editor), Ralph Manheim (Translator) 4.13 avg rating — 102 ratings — published 1946 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“what is terrible when you seek the truth is that you find it..”
― Victor Serge

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“I give myself credit for having seen clearly in a number of important situations. In itself, this is not so difficult to achieve, and yet it is rather unusual. To my mind, it is less a question of an exalted or shrewd intelligence, than of good sense, goodwill, and a certain sort of courage to enable one to rise above both the pressures of one's environment and the natural inclination to close one's eyes to facts, a temptation that arises from our immediate interests and from the fear which problems inspire in us. A French essayist has said: 'What is terrible when you seek the truth, is that you find it.' You find it, and then you are no longer free to follow the biases of your personal circle, or to accept fashionable clichés.”
― Victor Serge

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“Carelessness on the part of revolutionaries has always been the best aid the police have.”
― Victor Serge

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