Victor Serge
Overview
Victor Serge born Victor Lvovich Kibalchich , was a Russian revolutionary and writer. 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
but remained a socialist
until his death.
Serge was born in Brussels
, Belgium, to a couple of impoverished Russian anti-Czarist exiles.
Comintern
The Communist International, abbreviated as Comintern, also known as the Third International, was an international communist organization initiated in Moscow during March 1919...
as a journalist, editor and translator. He was critical of the Stalinist regime
Stalinism
Stalinism refers to the ideology that Joseph Stalin conceived and implemented in the Soviet Union, and is generally considered a branch of Marxist–Leninist ideology but considered by some historians to be a significant deviation from this philosophy...
but remained a socialist
Socialism
Socialism is an economic system characterized by social ownership of the means of production and cooperative management of the economy; or a political philosophy advocating such a system. "Social ownership" may refer to any one of, or a combination of, the following: cooperative enterprises,...
until his death.
Serge was born in Brussels
Brussels
Brussels , officially the Brussels Region or Brussels-Capital Region , is the capital of Belgium and the de facto capital of the European Union...
, Belgium, to a couple of impoverished Russian anti-Czarist exiles.
Quotations
Revolutionaries knew quite well that the autocratic Empire, with its hangmen, its pogroms, its finery, its famines, its Siberian jails and ancient iniquity, could never survive the war.
On Russia in World War I
All right, I can see the broken eggs. Now where's this omelette of yours?
After visiting Russia, to the pro-Leninist sentiment in the global left.