Victor Serge
unruly revolutionary
$66.76
- Paperback
432 pages
- Release Date
28 December 2025
Summary
Victor Serge: An Unruly Revolutionary
Ideological schisms have always been a feature of the left, but for much of the early twentieth century they could be deadly. Few revolutionary figures managed to chart such a unique course through the turbulent currents of anarchism and Bolshevism as Victor Serge.
Today, thanks to his classic memoirs and novels, Serge is highly esteemed by virtually all segments of the left. But who was this man, who led such a thrilling life on the fro…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780745348858 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0745348858 |
| Series: | Revolutionary Lives |
| Author: | Mitchell Abidor |
| Publisher: | Pluto Press |
| Imprint: | Pluto Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 432 |
| Release Date: | 28 December 2025 |
| Weight: | 382g |
| Dimensions: | 198mm x 129mm x 30mm |
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Critics Review
‘Mitchell Abidor’s superb and assertive writing reveals the many faces of Victor Serge, a ‘troublesome witness’ to some of the most decisive moments of his era. This is a vivid and deeply researched account of one of the most compelling lives in modern revolutionary history’
– Maurice J. Casey, author of Hotel Lux: An Intimate History of Communism’s Forgotten Radicals‘From anarchism to Bolshevism to anti-totalitarian socialism, Victor Serge never abandoned his passionate struggle for human freedom and a just society. Mitchell Abidor captures this rebel for all seasons in all his fascinating and tortured complexity’
– Bruce Baugh, Professor Emeritus of Philosophy, Thompson Rivers University‘A fascinating and provocative biography of a fascinating and provocative man. Tracing Serge’s tumultuous pilgrimage from individualist anarchism to revolutionary socialism to ethical personalism, Abidor testifies to his life-long courage in ‘rethinking left-wing politics”
– Geoffrey Kurtz, Associate Professor of Political Science, Borough of Manhattan Community College‘Mitchell Abidor’s new biography of the early 20th century radical, memoirist, and novelist best known as Victor Serge is the tale of a left-wing ‘Zelig.’ In Abidor’s tale we meet the leading figures of European anarchism, socialism, and communism, intellectuals as well as activist revolutionaries. Through his life of Serge, Abidor distills the history of Western revolutionary radicalism in the first half of the twentieth century’
– Melvyn Dubofsky, Professor Emeritus of History and Sociology, Binghamton University‘Mitchell Abidor’s superb and assertive writing reveals the many faces of Victor Serge, a ‘troublesome witness’ to some of the most decisive moments of his era. This is a vivid and deeply researched account of one of the most compelling lives in modern revolutionary history’
– Maurice J. Casey, author of Hotel Lux: An Intimate History of Communism’s Forgotten Radicals‘From anarchism to Bolshevism to anti-totalitarian socialism, Victor Serge never abandoned his passionate struggle for human freedom and a just society. Mitchell Abidor captures this rebel for all seasons in all his fascinating and tortured complexity’
– Bruce Baugh, Professor Emeritus of Philosophy, Thompson Rivers University‘A fascinating and provocative biography of a fascinating and provocative man. Tracing Serge’s tumultuous pilgrimage from individualist anarchism to revolutionary socialism to ethical personalism, Abidor testifies to his life-long courage in ‘rethinking left-wing politics”
– Geoffrey Kurtz, Associate Professor of Political Science, Borough of Manhattan Community College‘Mitchell Abidor’s new biography of the early 20th century radical, memoirist, and novelist best known as Victor Serge is the tale of a left-wing ‘Zelig.’ In Abidor’s tale we meet the leading figures of European anarchism, socialism, and communism, intellectuals as well as activist revolutionaries. Through his life of Serge, Abidor distills the history of Western revolutionary radicalism in the first half of the twentieth century’
– Melvyn Dubofsky, Professor Emeritus of History and Sociology, Binghamton UniversityAbout The Author
Mitchell Abidor
Mitchell Abidor is a writer and translator living in Brooklyn, New York. In addition to his many translation works, he is the author of May Made Me and I’ll Forget It When I Die!: The Bisbee Deportation of 1917. Abidor is the translator and editor of Victor Serge’s anarchist writings, Anarchists Never Surrender, and translated with Richard Greeman Serge’s Notebooks (1936-1947).
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