Richard Greeman

A novel set in 1912-20, the darkest days of Petrograd. While Civil War rages, revolutionaries are trapped by their situation into destroying their own comrades. Although City and Revolution are saved, Serge questions who or what has conquered.

An unforgettable depiction of worlds in collapse, this first English translation of Victor Serge's last novel is a monumental mural of World War II, taking readers from a paranoid pre-war Paris, to Leningrad under German siege, to a Berlin that is collapsing, and finally, with the war over, to the mountains of Mexico.