What Everyone Should Know About State Repression

“Victor Serge is one of the unsung heroes of a corrupt century.”—Adam Hochschild, author of King Leopold’s Ghost
Serge’s exposé of the methods of surveillance and harassment of political activists by the czarist police reads like a spy thriller.
Victor Serge was born to Russian émigré parents in 1890. He wrote numerous novels, poems and political essays and was forced into exile for opposing Stalin’s rule.