Victor Serge
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Russian revolutionary and writer (1890-1947)
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Victor Serge, also known by the pseudonym Rétif, was a male person from France. He was born on December 30, 1890, and died on November 17, 1947. His work is associated with genres including chanson, chanson française, composer, european, and eurovision.
He is the author of 27 works, with notable titles including *Les Revolutionnaires*, *the case of comrade tulayev*, *Birth of our Power*, *What every radical should know about state repression*, and *Russia twenty years after*. Additionally, five works are listed in the Crossref database. His name is referenced by 567 other encyclopedia articles.
Synthesized by Vinony from 17 facts across 6 sources: Wikidata, Last.fm, Crossref, MusicBrainz, Open Library, Vinony graph. Generated from structured data (not the Wikipedia text) and checked against those facts — may still contain errors.
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,
via Open Library + Wikidata
Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Male
- Origin
- France
- Active from
- 1928-04-02
- Active to
- 1991-03-02
Discography
via MusicBrainz · CC0
Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 34
- Total plays
- 222
<a href="https://www.last.fm/music/Victor+Serge">Read more on Last.fm</a>
Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- Microsoft COCO: Common Objects in Context
· 2014 · cited 26,176x
- Feature Pyramid Networks for Object Detection
· 2017 · cited 24,079x
- The Montreal Cognitive Assessment, MoCA: A Brief Screening Tool For Mild Cognitive Impairment
· 2005 · cited 21,982x
- Initial sequencing and analysis of the human genome
· 2001 · cited 18,620x
- A global reference for human genetic variation
· 2015 · cited 17,790x
via Crossref · CC0
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?”
via Wikiquote · CC BY-SA
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
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Viktor
- Family name
- Kibalchich
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Soviet Union
- Place of birth
- Brussels
- Place of death
- Mexico City
- Spouse
- Laurette Séjourné
- Occupation
- anarchist
- Political party
- Workers' Party of Marxist Unification
- Languages spoken
- Russian
- Image
- Victor serge.jpg
Show 9 more facts
- birth name
- Ви́ктор Льво́вич Киба́льчич
- Commons category
- Victor Serge
- date of birth
- 1890-12-30
- date of death
- 1947-11-17
- pseudonym
- Rétif
- archives at
- Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library
- writing language
- French
- unmarried partner
- Rirette Maîtrejean
- place of detention
- La Santé Prison
via Wikidata · CC0
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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.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Victor Serge” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.