the case of comrade tulayev by victor serge

Her books include Against Interpretation, On Photography, Illness as Metaphor, and The Volcano Lover. Susan Sontag (1933–2004) was a novelist, playwright, filmmaker, and one of the most influential critics of her generation. His classic Memoirs of a Revolutionary and his great last novels, Unforgiving Years and The Case of Comrade Tulayev (both available as NYRB Classics), were written “for the desk drawer” and published posthumously. Victor Serge's novel 'The Case of Comrade Tulayev' is set in the Soviet Union in the late 1930s, long before 'the chains wore out.' It is a classic and haunting look at Soviet society during an era of party purges, show trials, and executions that deserves a place of honor on any reading list that also includes Arthur Koestler's 'Darkness at. Stateless, penniless, hounded by Stalinist agents, Serge lived in precarious exile in Brussels, Paris, Vichy France, and Mexico City, where he died in 1947. Using his insider’s knowledge, Serge published a stream of impassioned, documented exposés of Stalin’s Moscow show trials and of machinations in Spain, which went largely unheeded. 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. 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. An outspoken critic of Stalin, Serge was expelled from the Party and arrested in 1929. Petersburg early in 1919 and joined the Bolsheviks, serving in the press services of the Communist International.

Detained for more than a year in a French concentration camp, Serge arrived in St. Expelled to Spain in 1917, he participated in an anarcho-syndicalist uprising before leaving to join the Revolution in Russia. A precocious anarchist firebrand, young Victor was sentenced to five years in a French penitentiary in 1912. Victor Serge (1890–1947) was born Victor Lvovich Kibalchich to Russian anti-Tsarist exiles, impoverished intellectuals living “by chance” in Brussels.

The case of comrade tulayev by victor serge