Russian revolutionary and French-language author (1890–1947)
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Victor Serge
Born
December 30, 1890 (1890-12-30)
Brussels, Belgium
Died
November 17, 1947 (1947-11-18) (aged 56)
Mexico City, Mexico
Nationality
Belgian
Russian
Political party
Socialist Young Guards (1905–1909)
Russian Communist Party (1919–1928)
POUM (1937)
Spouse
Liuba Russakova
Partner
Laurette Séjourné
Children
2, including Vlady
Signature
Victor Serge (French:[viktɔʁsɛʁʒ]; December 30, 1890 – November 17, 1947), born Victor Lvovich Kibalchich (Russian: Ви́ктор Льво́вич Киба́льчич), was a Russian writer, poet, Marxist revolutionary and historian. Originally an anarchist, he joined the Bolsheviks five months after arriving in Petrograd in January 1919 and later worked for the Comintern as a journalist, editor and translator. He was critical of the Stalinist regime and remained a revolutionary Marxist until his death. He was a close supporter of the Left Opposition and associate of Leon Trotsky.[1]According to, William Giraldi, Serge's novels may be "read like an alloy of" George Orwell and Franz Kafka: "the uncommon political acuity of Orwell and the absurdist comedy of Kafka, a comedy with the damning squint of satire, except the satire is real."[2] In his studies of Serge, Richard Greeman described him as a Modernist writer influenced by James Joyce, Andrei Bely and Freud; Greenman also believed that Serge, although writing in French, continued the experiments of such Russian Soviet writers as Isaac Babel, Osip Mandelstam and Boris Pilnyak and poets Vladimir Mayakovsky and Sergei Yesenin.[3] He is remembered as the author of novels and other prose works, memoirs (e.g. Memoirs of a Revolutionary) and poetry. Among his novels chronicling the lives of Soviet people and revolutionaries and of the first half of the 20th century, the best-known is The Case of Comrade Tulayev (French: L'affaire Toulaev). Nicholas Lezard calls the novel " of the great 20th-century Russian novels" that follows the traditions of "Gogolian absurdity".[4]
^Weissman, Susan (April 15, 2014). Victor Serge: A Political Biography. Verso Books. pp. 1–30. ISBN 978-1-78168-957-8.
^Giraldi, William (May 25, 2015). "Victor Serge, the Unconquered". The Baffler.
^Greeman, Richard (1980). "Victor Serge's The Case of Comrade Tulayev". Minnesota Review. 15 (1): 61–79. Project MUSE 427121.
^Lezard, Nicholas (September 18, 2004). "Run over by history". The Guardian.
VictorSerge (French: [viktɔʁ sɛʁʒ]; December 30, 1890 – November 17, 1947), born Victor Lvovich Kibalchich (Russian: Ви́ктор Льво́вич Киба́льчич), was...
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Harold Sedgwick (9 March 1934 – c. 8 September 1983) was a translator of VictorSerge, author of a number of books including PsychoPolitics and a revolutionary...
heterogenous views of the Left Opposition and described one of their members, VictorSerge, as a consistent defender of a multi-party system and favoured a coalition...
1980)". www.marxists.org. Retrieved 2020-08-07. Obituary. Leon Sedov by VictorSerge "To Mark the 75th Anniversary of Trotsky’s Arrival in Mexico: Interview...
during his exile in Norway and was originally translated into Spanish by VictorSerge. The most widely available English translation is by Max Eastman. Leon...
supporter of the Left Opposition. According to the French Trotskyist, VictorSerge she "usually took the chair at our meetings. Plump, her white hair over...
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economy and a reduction of state bureaucracy. The "anarcho-Bolshevik" VictorSerge subsequently joined the Opposition upon his return to the country, but...
VictorSerge and prize-winning author Vladimir Nabokov, who although not Jewish himself, was married to a Jewish woman.: 1181 Russian author Victor Serge...
Carvalho Calero), "H. C. Pieck" (Henri Pieck). Sneevliet had informed VictorSerge that Reiss, a leading GPU official in the Netherlands was "heartbroken"...
Samara: Drugoi Gorod. VictorSerge, Year One of the Russian Revolution (Chicago: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1970) VictorSerge, Year One of the Russian...
was also a rocket pioneer. He was a distant cousin of revolutionary VictorSerge. Born in Korop, Krolevetsky Uyezd, Chernigov Governorate (present-day...
of Trotsky, which she co-authored with fellow Russian revolutionary VictorSerge. She was also close to the Spanish revolutionary Grandizo Munis who had...
John Reed Internet Archive. Penguin Books; 1980. ISBN 0-14-018293-4. Serge, Victor. Year One of the Russian Revolution. L'An l de la revolution russe,...
Opposition activist and writer VictorSerge and wrote to Stalin begging clemency for Nikolai Bukharin. During Serge's imprisonment (1933–1936), Rolland...
Pannekoek, Max Nomad, Daniel Guérin, Otto Rühle, Dwight Macdonald and VictorSerge also published in the ICC. The magazine's original purpose was to correspond...
(2001). VictorSerge: The Course is Set on Hope. New York – London: Verso. p. 136. ISBN 1-85984-987-3. Weissman, Susan (2001). VictorSerge: The Course...
to the massacre in Crimea remain contested. Anarchist and Bolshevik VictorSerge gave a lower figure for White officers around 13,000 which he claims...
failed in its aim to create a mass pro-Bolshevik movement among Muslims. VictorSerge, a witness, recorded that: At Baku, Enver Pasha put in a sensational...
Serge Koussevitzky (born Sergey Aleksandrovich Kusevitsky; Russian: Сергей Александрович Кусевицкий, IPA: [sʲɪrˈɡʲej ɐlʲɪkˈsandrəvʲɪtɕ kʊsʲɪˈvʲitskʲɪj];...
Its Property in their youth including Rudolf Steiner, Gustav Landauer, VictorSerge, Carl Schmitt and Jürgen Habermas. Few openly admit any influence on...
studies and translations of the Franco-Russian novelist and revolutionary VictorSerge (1890–1947). He also writes regularly about politics, international class...
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