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The case of Comrade Tulayev, by Victor Serge ; translated from the French by Willard R. Trask ; introduction by Susan Sontag

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The case of Comrade Tulayev, by Victor Serge ; translated from the French by Willard R. Trask ; introduction by Susan Sontag

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eng

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fiction

Main title

The case of Comrade Tulayev

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by Victor Serge ; translated from the French by Willard R. Trask ; introduction by Susan Sontag

Summary

One cold Moscow night, Comrade Tulayev, a high government official, is shot dead on the street, and the search for the killer begins. In this panoramic vision of the Soviet Great Terror, the investigation leads all over the world, netting a whole series of suspects whose only connection is their innocence-at least of the crime of which they stand accused. But The Case of Comrade Tulayev, unquestionably the finest work of fiction ever written about the Stalinist purges, is not just a story of a totalitarian state. Marked by the deep humanity and generous spirit of its author, the legendary anarchist and exile Victor Serge, it is also a classic twentieth-century tale of risk, adventure, and unexpected nobility to set beside Ernest Hemingway's For Whom the Bell Tolls and Andre; Malraux's Man's Fate

Table Of Contents

1. Comets are born at night -- 2. The sword is blind -- 3. Men at bay -- 4. To build is to perish -- 5. Journey into defeat -- 6. Every man has his own way of drowning -- 7. The brink of nothing -- 8. The road to gold -- 9. Let purity be treason -- 10. And still the floes came down .

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