Victor Serge, Russian historian and author (born 1890)

Victor Serge

Russian revolutionary and French-language author (1890–1947)

Victor Serge was a Belgian-born Russian revolutionary, novelist, poet, historian, journalist, and translator. Originally an anarchist, he joined the Bolsheviks in January 1919 after arriving in Petrograd at the height of the Russian Civil War. He worked for the Comintern as a…