![]() ![]() ![]() Arrested again in Russia and deported to Central Asia in 1933, he was allowed to leave the USSR in 1936 after international protests by militants and prominent writers like André Gide and Romain Rolland. Henceforth an “unperson,” he completed three novels ( Men in Prison, Birth of Our Power, and Conquered City) and a history ( Year One of the Russian Revolution), all published in Paris. ![]() An outspoken critic of Stalin, Serge was expelled from the Party and briefly arrested in 1928. Petersburg early in 1919 and joined the Bolsheviks, serving in the press services of the Communist International. Detained for more than a year in a French concentration camp, Serge arrived in St. Expelled to Spain in 1917, he participated in an anarcho-syndicalist uprising before leaving to join the Revolution in Russia. A precocious anarchist firebrand, young Victor was sentenced to five years in a French penitentiary in 1912. Victor Serge (1890–1947) was born Victor Lvovich Kibalchich to Russian anti-czarist exiles, impoverished intellectuals living “by chance” in Brussels. ![]()
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