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Birth of Our Power (Spectre)
by Serge, Victor
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- Paperback
- Condition
- New
- ISBN 10
- 1629630306
- ISBN 13
- 9781629630304
- Seller
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Walla Walla, Washington, United States
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About This Item
PM Press, 2015-01-01. Paperback. New. Brand New; satisfaction guaranteed. Very Good. Light shelf wear to covers/corners; satisfaction guaranteed. 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.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. Between the romanticism of radicalized workers awakening to their own power in a sun-drenched Spanish metropolis to the grim reality of workers clinging to power in Russia?s dark, frozen revolutionary outpost. From ?victory in defeat? to ?defeat in victory."The novel was composed a decade after the revolution in Leningrad, where Serge was living in semicaptivity because of his declared opposition to Stalin?s dictatorship over the revolution.
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- Bookseller
- Earthlight Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- SKU12132736
- Title
- Birth of Our Power (Spectre)
- Author
- Serge, Victor
- Format/Binding
- Paperback
- Book Condition
- New New
- Quantity Available
- 25
- ISBN 10
- 1629630306
- ISBN 13
- 9781629630304
- Publisher
- PM Press
- Place of Publication
- Oakland
- Date Published
- 2015-01-01
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Walla Walla, Washington
About Earthlight Books
We are a family owned and operated full-service bookstore with a storefront located in Walla Walla, Washington and our online warehouse located in Olympia, Washington. Since 1973 we have been filling the literary needs of this wonderful community in the Walla Walla Valley. Over the past 48 years our shop here has become a staple of this vibrant local economy, a beautiful downtown scene and an informed intelligentsia. We sell books through our storefront, our website, and a book-mobile that travels to festivals and fairs.
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