Co-founder of the Praxis Research and Education Center in Moscow, and director of the International Victor Serge Foundation, Greeman splits his time between Montpellier, France and New York City. Greeman also writes regularly about politics, international class struggles and revolutionary theory. Richard Greeman is best known for his studies and translations of novelist and revolutionary Victor Serge (1890-1947). In this panoramic vision of the Soviet Great Terror, the investigation leads all over the world, netting a whole series of suspects whose only connection is their innocence-at least of the crime of which they stand accused. The group is open to all, and no prerequisite familiarity with Serge is expected. One cold Moscow night, Comrade Tulayev, a high government official, is shot dead on the street, and the search for the killer begins. The period covered (1933-1941) begins with Serge’s arrest by the GPU and deportation to the Urals (the setting of the novel Midnight in the Century), continues through the Moscow Trials and the Civil War in Spain (the background to Serge’s fictional Case of Comrade Tulayev), and ends with the Fall of France (experienced by Serge and fictionalized in The Long Dusk). This Fall we plan to read three novels by the Franco-Russian writer and revolutionary Victor Serge.
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