Victor Serge

Russian revoltionary

Victor Serge (French: [vikt?? s???]; 1890–1947), born Victor Lvovich Kibalchich (Russian: ??´???? ????´??? ????´?????), was a Russian revolutionary Marxist, novelist, poet and historian.Originally an anarchist, he joined the Bolsheviks five months after arriving in Petrograd in January 1919 and later worked for the Comintern as a journalist, editor and translator.

He was critical of the Stalinist regime and remained a revolutionary Marxist until his death.He is best remembered for his Memoirs of a Revolutionary and series of seven "witness-novels" chronicling the lives of Soviet people and revolutionaries and of the first half of the 20th century.