Written: 1925-1928, Vienna, Lenningrad, Dietskoye Seloe
First Published: L'An l de la revolution russe, 1930
Source: Year One of the Russian Revolution, Holt, Reinhart, and Winston. © 1972. Download the source PDF.
Translated/Edited: Peter Sedgwick, photographic research by Celestine Dars
Transcription/Markup: Brian Basgen
Proofread: [pending a volunteer!]
Copyright: Victor Serge Internet Archive (marxists.org) 2005. Translation, editor's Introduction, and notes © 1972 by Peter Sedgwick. Peter Sedgwick's children are pleased that this text is available on-line.
Table of Contents:
Editor's Introduction
Foreword
1 From Serfdom to Proletarian Revolution
2 The Insurrection of 25 October 1917
3 The Urban Middle Classes against the Proletariat
4 The First Flames of the Civil War: The Constituent Assembly
5 Brest-Litovsk
6 The Truce and the Great Retrenchment
7 The Famine and the Czechoslovak Intervention
8 The July-August Crisis
9 The Terror and the Will to Victory
10 The German Revolution
11 War Communism
Editorial Postscript: The Allied Part in the Czechoslovak Intervention
I dedicate this work to two proletarian revolutionaries:
to one now dead,
dear Vassili Nikiforovich Chadayev,
militant in the Leningrad communist organization, 1917-28, whose principled intelligence, firmness of character and absolute devotion - a unique flame burning within him - never wavered even in the bitterest torment and who perished before he could show the fullness of his powers in the service of the revolution, murdered while accomplishing a mission on 26 August 1928, not far from Armavir (Kuban); and
TO A GREAT LIVING REVOLUTIONARY.
V.S.