{"product_id":"anarchists-never-surrender-victor-serge-9781629630311","title":"Anarchists Never Surrender: Essays, Polemics, and Correspondence on Anarchism, 1908-1938","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eAnarchists Never Surrender\u003c\/em\u003e provides a complete picture of Victor Serge's relationship to anarchism. The volume contains writings going back to his teenage years in Brussels, where he became influenced by the doctrine of individualist anarchism. At the heart of the anthology are key articles written soon after his arrival in Paris in 1909, when he became editor of the newspaper \u003cem\u003el'anarchie\u003c\/em\u003e. In these articles Serge develops and debates his own radical thoughts, arguing the futility of mass action and embracing \"illegalism.\" Serge's involvement with the notorious French group of anarchist armed robbers, the Bonnot Gang, landed him in prison for the first time in 1912. \u003cem\u003eAnarchists Never Surrender\u003c\/em\u003e includes both his prison correspondence with his anarchist comrade ﾉmile Armand and articles written immediately after his release.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe book also includes several articles and letters written by Serge after he had left anarchism behind and joined the Russian Bolsheviks in 1919. Here Serge analyzed anarchism and the ways in which he hoped anarchism would leaven the harshness and dictatorial tendencies of Bolshevism. Included here are writings on anarchist theory and history, Bakunin, the Spanish revolution, and the Kronstadt uprising.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eAnarchists Never Surrender\u003c\/em\u003e anthologizes Victor Serge's previously unavailable texts on anarchism and fleshes out the portrait of this brilliant writer and thinker, a man I.F. Stone called one of the \"moral figures of our time.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Victor Serge\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1629630314\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781629630311\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e PM Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 03\/01\/2015\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 256\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.55lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.90h x 5.40w x 0.60d","brand":"Victor Serge","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43984733733119,"sku":"9781629630311","price":20.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_f222f3d9-f077-4f73-9252-781027b3746a.jpg?v=1683273923","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/anarchists-never-surrender-victor-serge-9781629630311","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}