READING: Victor Serge (1938): 1938 Preface to “Year One of the Russian Revolution"

Branko Milanovic is reading Victor Serge’s “Notebooks”, and asks and answers: “How does that look for a biography? Incredible…”

There is one way in which Victor Serge was very exceptional among the Old Bolsheviks. He, as Abbé Sieyes put it, survived. And he remembered all those who did not.

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