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Title: The Case of Comrade Tulayev by Victor Serge, Willard R. Trask, Susan Sontag ISBN: 1-59017-064-4 Publisher: New York Review of Books Pub. Date: 16 June, 2004 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $14.95

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Rating: 4
Summary: Kirov and after.
Comment: This political novel tells the story of the murder (organized by Stalin, according to R. Medvedev) of comrade Kirov, the very popular head of the Leningrad party district.
The consequences of the murder were terrible: deportations, show trials, executions, a total 'cleansing' of the communist party and a liquidation of the party delegates in the Parliament.

This book gives an excellent portrait of the atmosphere in the USSR under Stalin just before World War II: suspicion, despondency, embitterment, poverty, prostitution, insecurity, theft.
As Marx said: I sowed dragons and I harvested fleas.
At the time of the publication of his book, Victor Serge was heavily criticized by the hardliners in the Western CP's, because he was a Trotskyist and his picture should be biased.
But in fact, the situation was even more catastrophic (see 'Harvest of Sorrow' by Roger Conquest).
A still very readable book. Not only for historians.

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