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010 $a 2014908064
020 $a9781629630304 (pbk.)
020 $a1629630306 (pbk.)
035 $a(OCoLC)ocn879244502
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050 00 $aPQ2637.E49$bN313 2014
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100 1 $aSerge, Victor,$d1890-1947,$eauthor.
240 10 $aNaissance de notre force.$lEnglish
245 10 $aBirth of our power /$cVictor Serge ; translated and introduced by Richard Greeman.
264 1 $aOakland, CA :$bPM Press,$c[2014]
264 4 $c©2014
300 $a234 pages ;$c22 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
338 $avolume$bnc$2rdacarrier
490 1 $aSpectre classics
520 $aBirth of Our Power is an epic novel set in Spain, France, and Russia during the heady revolutionary years 1917-1919. Serge's tale begins in the spring of 1917, the third year of mass slaughter in the blood-and-rain-soaked trenches of World War I, when the flames of revolution suddenly erupt in Russia and Spain. 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. Between the romanticism of radicalized workers awakening to their own power in a sun-drenched Spanish metropolis to the grim reality of workers clinging to power in Russia's dark, frozen revolutionary outpost. The novel was composed a decade after the revolution in Leningrad, where Serge was living in semicaptivity because of his declared opposition to Stalin's dictatorship over the revolution.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references.
534 $pOriginally published in French:$cParis : Les Editions Rieder, 1931,$nunder title:$tNaissance de notre force.
651 0 $aSoviet Union$xHistory$yRevolution, 1917-1921$vFiction.
611 07 $aRevolution (Soviet Union : 1917-1921)$2fast$0(OCoLC)fst01907572
651 7 $aSoviet Union.$2fast$0(OCoLC)fst01210281
648 7 $a1917 - 1921$2fast
655 7 $aHistory$2fast$0(OCoLC)fst01411628
655 7 $aFiction.$2fast$0(OCoLC)fst01423787
700 1 $aGreeman, Richard,$etranslator,$ewriter of introduction.
830 0 $aSpectre Classics (PM Press (Firm))