![[ Memoirs Of A Revolutionary ] By Serge, Victor ( Author ) Jun-2012 [ Paperback ] Memoirs of a Revolutionary](https://images-eu.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/41Atc1lhziL._AC_UL160_SR149,160_.jpg)
Victor Serge's iconic autobiography was a book we used long ago to introduce students to the subject of literature and totalitarianism. It did two things: it gave us a lively and imaginative overview of 20th century history and politics from the Bolshevik Revolution to the death
of Trotsky; and it did this with a determined and delightful commitment to the cause of communist revolution, in spite of every betrayal, every atrocity, every degeneration of the workers' dream. And Serge was there in the thick of it, registering the poverty, crime and alcoholism within the would-be utopian Soviet Union, noticing that the Belgians were too fat and prosperous to make a revolution, and dying stateless, the ultimate outsider and internationalist, in a Mexican taxi.
This book has been out of print for ages. Now it has been reissued with some previously deleted passages, and some introductory material which for the first time benefits from the collapse of the Soviet Union and thereby signals the even greater relevance of Serge's work to a post-communist Russia and a globalised capitalism in crisis. Read this passionate memoir alongside Eric Hobsbawm's Age of Extremes, and you will get a real grip of that most bloody and radical era, the terrible 20th century with its dreams, nightmares, utopias, and its unfinished efforts to create liberty, equality and fraternity.
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