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This book is stunning! The best historic fiction I have ever read. And it is based entirely on truth. Serge brings us an intimately horrifying view of the Soviet Union in the 1930s. Character after character from humble peasants and soldiers to top players in Stalin’s politburo face stark choices- lie that you are betraying the Party, and die, or say the truth that you love the Party and die, deny you are betraying the Party and die etc. The book made me so grateful that I don’t have to face this dilemma in my life/ well not yet anyway. The cruelty and shocking insanity of Stalin’s Russia is told in a highly entertaining way (a breathless pageturner of a book) and every page makes you think. It made so much sense to me whose parents were there and whose lives were blighted by such a stark inheritance. I write about it in ‘Sasha & Olga’. – a highly personalised account of how Stalin and then Hitler lived with us in our migrant crucible permeating their dark insane shadows over our lives – Dr Eva Maria Chapman

Victor Serge (1889-1947) is best known as a novelist – with two of his works recently republished by the New York Review of Books – and for his Memoirs of a Revolutionary. Originally a participant in the anarchist movement, Serge became a committed bolshevik upon arrival in Russia during 1919 and lent his considerable talents to the cause of spreading the revolution across Europe. An eloquent critic of tyranny no matter its form, Serge was a leading member of the Left Opposition in its struggle against Stalin, a cause which ultimately resulted in his exile from Russia.