
What Every Radical Should Know about State Repression
A Guide for Activists
Victor Serge(Author)
Seven Stories Press,U.S.
Published on 28. May 2024
Book
Paperback/Softback
160 pages
978-1-64421-367-4 (ISBN)
Description
"As we approach the 100th anniversary of Victor Serge's classic exposâe of political repression, the specter of fear as a tool is once again chillingly familiar. An anarchist, Bolshevik, and Communist revolutionary journalist, a historian and memoirist who experienced firsthand the upheavals of a succession of post-revolutionary Soviet regimes, Serge wrote this manual so that other revolutionaries could understand the habits and structures of state repression and figure out how to use them on behalf of the common good"--
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Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
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Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Dimensions
Height: 212 mm
Width: 136 mm
Thickness: 13 mm
Weight
176 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-64421-367-4 (9781644213674)
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Victor Serge was born to Russian émigré parents in Belgium in 1890. He became active at an early age in revolutionary activities, for which he was imprisoned for five years in France. On his release he returned to revolutionary Russia where he threw himself into the defense of the fledgling government. After Lenin’s death he became increasingly alienated from Stalin’s clique and was expelled from the Soviet Union in 1936 for speaking out against the purges. He died in exile in Mexico in 1947. He wrote numerous novels, poems, memoirs and political essays. Prefiguring Solzhenitsyn by 40 years, Serge believed: “He who speaks, he who writes is above all one who speaks on behalf of all those who have no voice.”
Anthony Arnove (introduction to this edition) is the editor of several books, including, with Howard Zinn, Voices of a People’s History of the United States and Terrorism and War. He wrote the introduction for the thirty-fifth anniversary edition of Zinn’s classic book A People’s History of the United States. Arnove cofounded the nonprofit education and arts organization Voices of a People’s History of the United States. Arnove is on the editorial boards of Haymarket Books and Tempestmag.org and is the director of Roam Agency, where he represents authors including Arundhati Roy and Noam Chomsky. He lives in Hopewell, New Jersey.
Anthony Arnove (introduction to this edition) is the editor of several books, including, with Howard Zinn, Voices of a People’s History of the United States and Terrorism and War. He wrote the introduction for the thirty-fifth anniversary edition of Zinn’s classic book A People’s History of the United States. Arnove cofounded the nonprofit education and arts organization Voices of a People’s History of the United States. Arnove is on the editorial boards of Haymarket Books and Tempestmag.org and is the director of Roam Agency, where he represents authors including Arundhati Roy and Noam Chomsky. He lives in Hopewell, New Jersey.