{"product_id":"9780745348858","title":"Victor Serge","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eIdeological schisms have always been a feature of the left, but they could be deadly for much of the early twentieth century. Few revolutionary figures managed to chart such a unique course through the turbulent currents of anarchism and Bolshevism as Victor Serge. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eToday, 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 frontlines of history? Was he an anarchist, a Bolshevik, or a Trotskyist? Or did he evolve into something else entirely?\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eIn this comprehensive account of Victor Serge's life, work, and political evolution, Mitchell Abidor rescues his subject, in all his complexity, from the constraints of any single label. Painting a portrait of a man whose political ideas shifted continually in response to the significant events of his life, we are introduced to several Victor Serges: the youthful anarchist in Belgium and France, the leading Bolshevik in Moscow, and the anti-Stalinist who faced imprisonment and expulsion from the Soviet Union.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eExamining the lacunae and errors of fact in his memoirs, the hidden Serge is ultimately revealed for what he was: an unruly revolutionary of great courage and contradictions.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Mitchell Abidor","offers":[{"title":"Pluto Press |  Paperback \/ softback | Trade paperback (UK) |  2025-11-20","offer_id":46920355643647,"sku":"9780745348858","price":36.95,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0329\/9075\/7001\/files\/BNCImageAPI_09f42b32-f5ef-4254-946c-1e89dfdce0f1.jpg?v=1749135858","url":"https:\/\/riverbookshop.com\/products\/9780745348858","provider":"River Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}