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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.
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.