A sardonic and sometimes humorous glance at life and service in Soviet and Russian Armies from Artillery Engineering School to the final days in Russia. Struggle, service and survival in the Army during turmoil of 1990th after collapse of the "Iron Curtain", tumultuous journey through military units and Artillery Academy with further dissapointment and attempts to leave the country followed by imprisonment in one of the oldest and biggest Russian Jail in Ekaterinburg, release under permane...

Birth of Our Power is an epic novel set in Spain, France, and Russia during the heady revolutionary years 1917–1919. Serge’s tale begins in the spring of 1917, the third year of mass slaughter in the blood-and-rain-soaked trenches of World War I. 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....

An often overlooked piece of Europe's anarchist history. Includes writings from Victor Serge and members of the Bonnot Gang. Mitch Abidor is a well-established translator of books related to French social history.

Learn Arabic Vocabulary through 5000 common wordsThis book has been prepared to help you boost your MSA (Modern Standard Arabic) skills.Whether you prepare for an important exam, contemplate a move to an Arabic-speaking country, or simply wants to brush up your skills, we have selected the 5000 words that you will encounter the most often.Real Arabic as it is SpokenBased on newspapers, books and verbal interactions, these wo...

“Everything in this book is fictional and everything is true,” wrote Victor Serge in the epigraph to Men in Prison. “I have attempted, through literary creation, to bring out the general meaning and human content of a personal experience.”The author of Men in Prison served five years in French penitentiaries (1912–1917) for the crime of “criminal association”—in fact for his courageous refusal to testify against his old comrades, the infamous “Tragic Bandits” of F...

The author of Memoirs of a Revolutionary brings to life the unwavering commitment of red Petrograd during some of the Russian Revolution's darkest hours.Upon arrival in Petrograd in 1919, Victor Serge—the great chronicler of the Russian Revolution—found a society nearly shredded to ribbons by civil war. Threatened on all sides by invading armies from fourteen countries, and attacked from within by counterrevolutionary forces seeking to restore the Tsar, the...

The Lelarge family quietly runs its little seafood empire from Quebec' s North Shore. But when an elegant visitor is dispatched by a mysterious Japanese conglomerate to their isolated fishing village, things will never be the same again. Because Mori Ishikawa has a secret invention: Ori. And it' s destined to change the course of human history.

Victor Serge (1890–1947) played many parts, as he recounted in his indelible Memoirs of a Revolutionary. The son of anti-czarist exiles in Brussels, Serge was a young anarchist in Paris; a syndicalist rebel in Barcelona; a Bolshevik in Petrograd; a Comintern agent in Central Europe; a comrade of Trotsky’s; a friend of writers like Andrei Bely, Boris Pilnyak, and André Breton; a prisoner of Stalin; a dissident Marxist in exile in Mexico...Like Serge’s extraordinary novels, ...

Anarchists Never Surrender 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 l’anarchie. In these articles Serge develops and debates his own radical thoughts, arguing the f...

A tightly controlled mountain town. A disappearance no one wants solved. And something in the surrounding peaks that refuses to stay buried.In the dead of winter, detectives Frank Sangaré and Ms. Umber arrive in Saint-Elme, a remote village in the Alps famed for its mineral water—where residents have learned to mind their own business.The pair is investigating the disappearance of a wealthy young man who vanished three months earlier. But in Saint-Elme, pow...

Alice, Cricket and Two Dogsby Serge GregoryNine-year-old Alice lives a quiet life with her father, her stepmother Annie, and two loyal dogs—Bella and Lola. But when a terrible secret emerges, everythingchanges: Annie is a witch, and Alice is in danger.Warned by Cricket, a brilliant, talking insect born from a cosmic event, Alice flees into the wilderness with the dogs as her only protectors....

For over 22 years now, Panda has been immersing its little readers in the wonderful world of reading!Waited, read, reread, kept, collected... Panda allows children to build their own library.In each Panda, our authors and illustrators work hard to allow young children to explore all: adventure, comedy, science fiction...Panda is a wonderful storybook for children from 7 to ...