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Conquered City (New York Review Books Classics) ***SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY THE TRANSLATOR!!!***
by Victor Serge (Author); Richard Green (Translated from the French & With a Foreword by) ***AUTOGRAPHED COPY!!!***
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New York: NYRB - The New York Review of Books, 2011. Copyright © 1975, © 2011 by the International Victor Serge Foundation 1st Printing. Trade Paperback. Like New. 8vo or 8° (Medium Octavo): 7¾" x 9¾" tall. Kathy Homans (Cover Design); Ivan Puni (Cover Art). 198 + xxii pp. Singed and inscribed by the translator! A rare, hard-to-find, collectible gem! An excellent, spotlessly clean copy! Clean, fresh, sharp, tight, essentially flawless copy with crisp pages, clean text, and very light shelf wear.
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Victor Serge (1890–1947) was born Victor Lvovich Kibalchich to Russian anti-czarist exiles, impoverished intellectuals living “by chance” in Brussels. A precocious anarchist firebrand, young Victor was sentenced to five years in a French penitentiary in 1912. Exiled to Spain in 1917, he participated in an anarcho-syndicalist uprising before leaving for Russia to join the Revolution. Arriving in 1919, after a year in a French concentration camp, Serge joined the Bolsheviks and worked in the press services of the Communist International in Petrograd, Moscow, Berlin, and Vienna. An outspoken critic of Stalin, Serge was expelled from the Party and jailed in 1929. Released and living in Paris, he managed to publish three novels (Men in Prison, Birth of Our Power, and Conquered City) and a history (Year One of the Russian Revolution). 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. Using his insider’s knowledge, Serge published a stream of impassioned, documented exposés of Stalin’s Moscow show trials and machinations in Spain, which went largely unheeded. Stateless, penniless, hounded by Stalinist agents, Serge lived in precarious exile in Brussels, Paris, Vichy France, and Mexico City, where he died in 1947. 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. Richard Greeman, the translator of four of Victor Serge’s novels, has written a doctoral dissertation about Serge along with numerous other studies of his work and life. He blogs at Z-Space (www.zcommunications.org/zspace/rgreeman) and his Beware of “Vege tarian” Sharks!: Radical Rants and Internationalist Essays (Illustrated) was published by Praxis in 2007.
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- Conquered City (New York Review Books Classics) ***SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY THE TRANSLATOR!!!***
- Author
- Victor Serge (Author); Richard Green (Translated from the French & With a Foreword by) ***AUTOGRAPHED COPY!!!***
- Illustrator
- Kathy Homans (Cover Design); Ivan Puni (Cover Art)
- Format/Binding
- Trade Paperback
- Book Condition
- New
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Copyright © 1975, © 2011 by the International Victor S
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 159017366X
- ISBN 13
- 9781590173664
- Publisher
- NYRB - The New York Review of Books
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 2011
- Pages
- 224
- Keywords
- Socialism & Communism, Political Studies & Science, Current Events & Affairs, Literary Studies
- Size
- 8vo or 8° (Medium Octavo): 7¾" x 9¾" tall
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