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A classic expose of political repression in Czarist Russia which will be chillingly familiar to activists today. This is a timely publication of the work of an anarchist and socialist humanist writer in a time of growing global activism. There has been a revival of interest in Serge since the collapse of the Soviet Union. The relevance of his writings today is drawn out by U.S. civil liberties lawyer and Arab-American community activist Dalia Hashad. Serge's expose of the methods of surveillance and harassment of political activists by the Czarist police reads like a spy thriller. But as Dalia Hashad points out in her introduction, this book will have a resonance with political activists today who face a new wave of repression under the Patriot Act and racial profiling in the name of the war on terror.

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'Victor Serge is one of the unsung heroes of a corrupt century.' - Adam Hochschild (King Leopold's Ghost) '[Victor] Serge... never abandoned his belief in the humanist character of the socialist idea, and his books are now taken up by a new generation of Russian left-democrats, who have opened a library in Moscow that bears his name.' - Christopher Hitchens

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Victor Serge was born to Russian emigre parents in 1890. He wrote numerous novels, poems and political essays and was forced into exile for opposing Stalin's rule. Dalia Hashad is an American Civil Liberties Union organizer in New York for the Campaign Against Racial Profiling.

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