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Also known as Victor Lvovich Kibalchich, Viktor Lvovič Kibalčič, Viktor Kibalchich, Viktor Lvovich Kibalchich

Russian revolutionary and writer (1890-1947)

Person · Open Library

Works
27

Top works

  • Les Revolutionnaires
  • the case of comrade tulayev
  • Birth of our Power
  • What every radical should know about state repression
  • Russia twenty years after,

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type
Person
Gender
Male
Origin
France
Active from
1928-04-02
Active to
1991-03-02
chansonchanson françaisecomposereuropeaneurovisionfrench

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners
34
Total plays
222

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Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

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Quotes

  • It is often said that “the germ of all Stalinism was in Bolshevism at its beginning”. Well, I have no objection. Only, Bolshevism also contained many other germs, a mass of other germs, and those who lived through the enthusiasm of the first years of the first victorious socialist revolution ought not to forget it. To judge the living man by the death germs which the autopsy reveals in the corpse – and which he may have carried in him since his birth – is that very sensible?

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Key facts

Born
Viktor Lvovich Kibalchich , ( 1890-12-30 ) 30 December 1890, Brussels , Belgium
Died
17 November 1947 (1947-11-17) (aged 56), Mexico City , Mexico
Notable work
The Case of Comrade Tulayev (1949) Memoirs of a Revolutionary, 1901–1941 (1951)
Political party
Socialist Young Guards (1905–1909) Russian Communist Party (1919–1928)
Spouse
Lyubov Aleksandrovna Rusakova
Partner
Laurette Séjourné
Children
2, including Vlady

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Encyclopedic overview

Victor Serge ( French: [viktɔʁ sɛʁʒ]; born Viktor Lvovich Kibalchich, Russian: Ви́ктор Льво́вич Киба́льчич; 30 December 1890 – 17 November 1947) was a Belgian-born Russian revolutionary, novelist, poet, historian, journalist, and translator. Serge was a key eyewitness to and participant in the revolutionary movements of the 20th century and the opposition to Stalinism, which influenced his writing along with contemporary Modernist experiments. His notable and best-known works as an author include such novels as The Case of Comrade Tulayev, his historical account Year One of the Russian Revolution, and his Memoirs of a Revolutionary, 1901–1941.

Originally an anarchist, Victor Serge joined the Bolsheviks in January 1919 after arriving in Petrograd (Saint Petersburg) at the height of the Russian Civil War. He worked for the Comintern as a journalist, editor, and translator and was an early critic of the emerging Stalinist regime. Serge joined the Left Opposition in 1923 and was expelled from the Communist Party in late 1927 or early 1928. He was imprisoned by the Soviet regime in 1928 and again from 1933 to 1936.

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