A review by dmaude
The Case of Comrade Tulayev by Susan Sontag, Victor Serge, Willard R. Trask

4.0

This Russian novel, written in 1940-2, while Serge was in exile, but not published in English until decades later, doesn't remind me of other big Russian novels - although set in 1936 in the reign of Stalin. It made me think of Philip K. Dick. Except for this novel, was based on not imagination - what if Hitler had won? - but based on the very real faked news of Russia, and it consequences. "Enemies of the people" was a common charge, which wouldn't have been so striking before the Donald and Steve.

Serge wrote some history books about the revolution and Russia too, but in a number of novels he went for the "truth" of what happened.

He wrote the book while Hitler and Stalin battled on the eastern front. Serge died in 1946.