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Victor Serge

Conquered City

Part Three of Victory-in-Defeat, Defeat-in-Victory

(1932)

First published as Ville Conquise in Paris by Les Editions Rieder in 1932 and republished by Les Editions du Seuil in 1967.
Translated by Richard Greeman.
Copyright © 1975 by Doubleday & Company Inc.
Published here with the kind permission of and in co-operation with the Victor Serge Literary Estate.
Transcribed & marked up by Einde O’Callaghan for the Marxists’ Internet Archive.

I dedicate this book to my
Comrades in France and Spain,
       For we must try to rescue the
true face of the Revolution from
oblivion and legend;
       This is necessary to purge
our strength,
       to obey the highest necessity more
freely,
       not to ask it to justify
our errors,
       to better accomplish what
must be accomplished,
       And so that man will be reborn
one day in every man.

V.S.

Foreword
by Richard Greeman

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