Oakland: PM Press, 2015 — 256 p. — ISBN10: 1629630306; ISBN13: 978-1629630304. Translated by Richard Greeman. Birth of Our Power is an epic novel set in Spain, France, and Russia during the heady revolutionary years 1917–1919. Serge’s tale begins in the spring of 1917, the third year of mass slaughter in the blood-and-rain-soaked trenches of World War I, when the flames of...
London: Writers and Readers Publishing Cooperative, 1978 — 226 p. — ISBN: 0-904613-51-8. Translated by Richard Greeman. 1919–1920: St. Petersburg, city of the czars, has fallen to the Revolution. Camped out in the splendid palaces of the former regime, the city’s new masters seek to cement their control, even as the counterrevolutionary White Army regroups. Conquered City ,...
New York: NYRB Classics, 2014 — 240 p. — ISBN10: 1590177703; ISBN13: 978-1590177709. In 1933, Victor Serge was arrested by Stalin’s police, interrogated, and held in solitary confinement for more than eighty days. Released, he spent two years in exile in remote Orenburg. These experiences were the inspiration for Midnight in the Century, Serge’s searching novel about...
New York: NYRB Classics, 2004 — 400 p. — ISBN10: 1590170644; ISBN13: 978-1590170649. Translated from French by William R. Trask.Introduction by Susan Sontag. One cold Moscow night, Comrade Tulayev, a high government official, is shot dead on the street, and the search for the killer begins. In this panoramic vision of the Soviet Great Terror, the investigation leads all over...
New York: NYRB Classics, 2008 — 368 p. — ISBN10: 1590172477; ISBN13: 978-1590172476. Unforgiving Years is a thrilling and terrifying journey into the disastrous, blazing core of the twentieth century. Victor Serge’s final novel, here translated into English for the first time, is at once the most ambitious, bleakest, and most lyrical of this neglected major writer’s works. The...
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