From Lenin to Stalin - Softcover

Serge, Victor

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0913460079 ISBN 13: 9780913460078

Publisher: Monad Press, 1973

Synopsis

Victor Serge, revolutionary and novelist, presents a moving and vivid first hand account of the heroic years of the Russian Revolution and Civil War and of the years of betrayal of the revolution as Stalin consolidated his power and liquidated his Communist opponents. Employing a style described by novelist James T. Farrell as "full of passion and vigor," Serge, who served the early Communist International as an administrator, editor and international representative , recreates the exciting atmosphere of the early years of the Russian Revolution, making the period come alive for the reader. Serge describes the growth of Stalinism in the Soviet Union, and the struggle against it waged by the Left Opposition to which he belonged. He chronicles the purges, the frame-up trials, and the jailing, deportation and execution of Stalin's Communist opponents. Throughout it all the author, who was himself jailed, deprived of his Soviet citizenship, and banished from the USSR in 1936, retains his confidence in the revival of Leninism in the Soviet Union, and reaffirms his conviction that the ideals of the early years of the revolution will one day triumph over Stalinism. This edition includes six other essays on the Soviet Union by Victor Serge, written between 1923 and 1937.

About this edition

• Publisher: Monad Press
• Publication date: 1973
• ISBN 10: 0913460079
• ISBN 13: 9780913460078
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 192
• Editor: Weissman George