Vagabond witness: Victor Serge and the politics of hope

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Victor Serge -- a life line -- Introduction: the art of not dying away -- In the shadow of madness: the experience of prison -- Yesterday we were nothing: the revolutionary experience -- Building on corpses: the repressive state -- A stranger to no land: the experience of exile -- Magicians of word and thought: the Russian cultural revolution -- A certain sort of courage: the writer as witness -- Shared veins: hope and soul -- Writings by Victor Serge.;"Victor Serge was the first and the greatest witness of the twentieth century. An anarchist in France, a syndicalist in Spain, a critical Bolshevik in Russia, an agent of the Comintern in Germany and Austria, an exile, Serge once said that people judged history, but they did so without knowing what really happened and who the actors really were. All his work - novels, reportage, poetry, criticism - was an attempt to show what really happened, and why"--Publisher's description. Victor Serge -- a life line -- Introduction: the art of not dying away -- In the shadow of madness: the experience of prison -- Yesterday we were nothing: the revolutionary experience -- Building on corpses: the repressive state -- A stranger to no land: the experience of exile -- Magicians of word and thought: the Russian cultural revolution -- A certain sort of courage: the writer as witness -- Shared veins: hope and soul -- Writings by Victor Serge.