Birth of Our Power

About the author

Victor Serge (1890–1947) was born to Russian anti-Tsarist exiles living in Brussels. As a young anarchist firebrand, Victor was sentenced to five years in a French penitentiary in 1912. In 1919, Serge joined the Bolsheviks. An outspoken critic of Stalin, Serge was expelled from the Party and arrested in 1929. Nonetheless, he managed to complete three novels (Men in Prison, Birth of Our Power, and Conquered City) and a history (Year One of the Russian Revolution), published in Paris. Arrested again in Russia and deported to Central Asia in 1933, he was allowed to leave the USSR in 1936 after international protests by militants and prominent writers like André Gide and Romain Rolland. Hounded by Stalinist agents, Serge lived in precarious exile in Brussels, Paris, Vichy France, and Mexico City, where he died in 1947.

Product details

• Authors: Victor Serge
• Publisher: PM Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.01.2015
• EAN: 9781629630304
• ISBN: 978-1-62963-030-4
• No. of pages: 256
• Dimensions: 142 mm x 216 mm x 27 mm
• Weight: 241 g
• Subject: Fiction > Narrative literature