Birth of Our Power
ISBN-13: 9781629630687
Author(s): Victor Serge
Subjects: FA, FBA, FBC
Publisher: Pm Press
Publisher Imprint: Pm Press E Books
Publication Date: 22-01-2015
Format: Ebook
Availability: In stock
£5.99
About the book
Serge's tale begins in the spring of 1917, the third year of mass slaughter in the trenches of WWI. When the flames of revolution suddenly erupt in Russia and Spain, Europe is burning at both ends.' Although the Spanish uprising eventually fizzles, in Russia the workers, peasants and common soldiers are able to take power and hold it. Serge's 'tale of two cities' is constructed from the opposition between Barcelona, the city 'we' could not take, and Petrograd, the starving, beleaguered capital of the Russian Revolution besieged by counter-revolutionary Whites.'