Victor Serge
Victor Serge (; December 30, 1890 – November 17, 1947), born
Victor Lvovich Kibalchich (), was a Russian revolutionary
Marxist, novelist, poet and historian. Originally an
anarchist, he joined the
Bolsheviks five months after arriving in
Petrograd in January 1919 and later worked for the
Comintern as a journalist, editor and translator. He was critical of the
Stalinist regime and remained a revolutionary Marxist until his death. He is best remembered for his ''
Memoirs of a Revolutionary'' and series of seven "witness-novels" chronicling the lives of Soviet people and revolutionaries and of the first half of the 20th century, the best-known of which is ''The Case of Comrade Tulayev'' ().
Nicholas Lezard calls the novel " of the great 20th-century Russian novels" that follows the traditions of "
Gogolian absurdity".
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