Libcom: Interview with Victor Serge (1947)
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Victor Serge
Victor Serge was a Belgian-born Russian revolutionary, novelist, poet, historian, journalist, and translator. Serge was a key eyewitness to and participant in the revolutionary movements of the 20th century and the opposition to Stalinism, which influenced his writing along with contemporary Modernist experiments. His notable and best-known works as an author include such novels as The Case of Com…
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culture · Russian revolutionary and author (1890–1947) · translator · journalist · writer · politician · revolutionary · anarchist · also Victor Serge, Victor Lvovich Kibalchich, Viktor Lvovič Kibalčič, Viktor Kibalchich, Viktor Lvovich Kibalchich, Viktor L'vovič Kibal'čič
Born 30 December 1890 · Died 17 November 1947 · Q362009
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2017· 1 entry
2014· 1 entry
Libcom: What every radical should know about state repression - Victor Serge
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2009· 1 entry
“Citation choisie pour le 2 avril 2009.”
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2003· 1 entry
Green Left Weekly: Victor Serge: against the 'Marxism of dead slogans'
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2001· 1 entry
The Chronicle of Higher Education: Victor Serge, Conscience of the Revolution
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1995· 1 entry
The US government released a decrypted Soviet secret message traffic "Venona" which confirmed that there indeed was a cell of MGB agents among Mexico City cab drivers who specialized in liquidations of undesirables
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1947· 7 entries
Died 1947-11-17.
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“sur la situation des apatrides”
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“Revolutionaries knew quite well that the autocratic Empire, with its hangmen, its pogroms, its finery, its famines, its Siberian jails and ancient iniquity, could never survive the war.”
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“Il s'agit d'une critique de certaines tendances de la littérature soviétique.”
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“All right, I can see the broken eggs. Now where's this omelette of yours?”
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“After visiting Russia, to the pro-Leninist sentiment in the global left.”
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“Koba était un pseudonyme de Staline.”
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1939· 1 entry
“New International, Vol V No. 2, February 1939, pp. 53–55. (A Letter and Some Notes))”
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1928· 2 entries
Serge, now politically silenced within the USSR, turned to "serious writing" as a means of resistance and testimony
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After his first Soviet imprisonment, viewing literature as a means of testimony and a way to explore the human dimensions of revolutionary struggle and defeat
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1925· 2 entries
Zinoviev and Kamenev briefly formed the United Opposition with Trotsky in 1926
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Intending to actively participate in the Left Opposition
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1924· 1 entry
Serge wrote Lenin 1917, a study that, while seemingly an official tribute, implicitly criticized the emerging Stalinist leadership by emphasizing Lenin's internationalism and reliance on mass democracy
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1923· 2 entries
And was expelled from the Communist Party in late 1927 or early 1928
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That Serge formally joined the Left Opposition, which was coalescing around Leon Trotsky in the Soviet Union to resist the bureaucratization of the Party and advocate for a policy of industrialization and workers' democr
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1921· 1 entry
Dismayed Serge, who saw it as a retreat towards capitalism
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1890· 1 entry
Born 1890-12-30.
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1883· 1 entry
“Il primo gruppo rivoluzionario russo di tendenza marxista fu fondato in Svizzera da G. V. Plechanov, nel 1883, un anno prima della dissoluzione del Comitato esecutivo della Narodnaja Volja. È il gruppo della Emancipazione del lavoro. Non ne fan parte che cinque emigrati. Le prime organizzazioni operaie nasceranno solo dieci anni più tardi. (cap. I, p. 14)”
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1881· 1 entry
A plot in which a relative, Nikolai Kibalchich, a chemist, played a key technical role and was subsequently executed
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