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Bezig met laden... Birth of Our Power (1931)door Victor Serge
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Serge's tale begins in the spring of 1917, the third year of mass slaughter in the trenches of WWI. When the flames of revolution suddenly erupt in Russia and Spain, Europe is burning at both ends.' Although the Spanish uprising eventually fizzles, in Russia the workers, peasants and common soldiers are able to take power and hold it. Serge's 'tale of two cities' is constructed from the opposition between Barcelona, the city 'we' could not take, and Petrograd, the starving, beleaguered capital of the Russian Revolution besieged by counter-revolutionary Whites.' Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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1917-19: Barcelona among anarchists, a French concentration camp, Petrograd in the grip of the revolution.
Barcelona: the anarchist’s hope and the writers skepticism: ‚We know the old story. With the monarchists overthrown, three to six months later, the republics establish order by machine-gunning the workers. An old tradition.‘ (The prediction soon fulfilled in Berlin)
The French concentration camp: Goldstein, the watchmaker, plays the flute and the taciturn soldier, gassed in the Artois, feels himself overcome by the unknown sadness of the world.
Arrival in Petrograd, his premonition: ‚Were we not to be overrun, after the conquest, by the sly, the adaptable, the false companions?‘
How not to loose hope in the midst of despair? (VI-17) ( )