An Original from New York Review Books One of the great writers of the 20th century, Victor Serge is also one of its great men. In Memoirs of a Revolutionary, he devoted all of his passion and brilliance to portraying this extraordinary?and exemplary?career. He was an anarchist, an agitator, a revolutionary, an exile, a historian of his times, as well as a creative novelist. Serge describes his upbringing among exiles and conspirators, his membership in the infamous Bonnot Gang, his time spent in prison, his involvement in the Russian Revolution, and how the Revolution ended up turning into a despotic and terror-filled regime. After being expelled from the Soviet Union, Serge travelled to Paris where he escaped the Nazis and the KGB before making his way to Mexico. Memoirs of a Revolutionary describes a dramatic life lived on the front lines of history and features vivid images of many individuals who fought to change the world, in addition to Trotsky, Lenin, and Stalin. Memoirs of a Revolutionary by Peter Sedgwick was reduced when it was initially released in 1963. The full of Serge's book is presented in this edition, which is the first in English.