Biblioteca / 1990-1999
David Cotterill, editor. The Serge-Trotsky Papers. Correspondence and Other Writings between Victor Serge and Leon Trotsky.
Londres: Pluto Press, 1994.
Traducciones: Peter Sedgwick – Maria Enzenberger.
275 páginas.
León Trotsky y Víctor Serge representan las grandes y trágicas figuras de la oposición al dominio dictatorial de Stalin sobre la Unión Soviética a finales de los años veinte y treinta. Escritas durante este periodo, las cartas intercambiadas entre estos dos amigos, publicadas aquí traducidas por primera vez junto con otro material procedente tanto del Archivo Trotsky de Harvard como del Archivo Serge de México, presentan un relato único de primera mano de las alternativas y argumentos de la oposición trotskista en el exilio. La correspondencia narra los intentos de Trotsky de fundar una nueva Internacional y arroja nueva luz sobre la trayectoria de la revolución rusa desde Lenin hasta Stalin y los efectos a largo plazo del estalinismo para los movimientos revolucionarios de Occidente. Estas cartas, que constituyen una extraordinaria visión de la vida de dos destacados pensadores del siglo XX, también nos ayudan a comprender una importante relación durante un periodo crítico de la política europea. Cada sección va precedida de una introducción que contextualiza y aclara los documentos.
CONTENTS
Preface
Chronology
Introduction / D.J. Cotterill
1 – Victor Serge and Bolshevism
Introduction / Philip Spencer
THE DOCUMENTS
Victor Serge, Petrograd. Extract from ‘La Ville en danger’
Victor Serge, Letter to Comrade Michel
Victor Serge, ‘The Tragic Face of Revolution’. Extract from La Vie ouvrière
Victor Serge, ‘The Problems of Dictatorship’. Extract from La Vie ouvrière
2 – The Correspondence
Introduction / D.J. Cotterill
THE CORRESPONDENCE
Prefatory letter: Serge to Sedov (in French)
Letter 1: Serge to Trotsky (in French)
Letter 2: Trotsky to Serge (in Russian)
Letter 3: Trotsky to Serge (telegram, in French)
Letter 4: Serge to Trotsky (in French; published in part in the RussianLanguage Bulletin of the Opposition [Paris], no. 50, May 1936)
Letter 5: Trotsky to Serge (in Russian)
Letter 6: Serge to Trotsky (in Russian)
Letter 7: Serge to Trotsky (in Russian)
Letter 8: Trotsky to Serge (in Russian)
Letter 9: Serge to Trotsky (in Russian)
Letter 10: Trotsky to Serge (in Russian)
Letter 11: Serge to Trotsky (in Russian)
Letter 12: Serge to Trotsky (in French)
Letter 13: Trotsky to Serge (in Russian)
Letter 14: Trotsky to Serge (in Russian)
Letter 15: Serge to Trotsky (in Russian)
Letter 16: Serge to Konrad Knudsen (postcard–in Russian)
Letter 17: Trotsky to Serge (in Russian)
Letter 18: Serge to Trotsky (in Russian)
Letter 19: Serge to Trotsky (in Russian)
Letter 20: Trotsky to Serge (in Russian)
Letter 21: Trotsky to Serge (in Russian)
Letter 22: Trotsky to Serge (in Russian)
Letter 23: Serge to Trotsky (in Russian)
Letter 24: Serge to Trotsky (in French)
Letter 25: Trotsky to Serge (in Russian)
Letter 26: Serge to Trotsky (in Russian)
Letter 27: Serge to Trotsky (in Russian)
Letter 28: Serge to Trotsky (in Russian)
Letter 29: Trotsky to Serge (in Russian)
Letter 30: Trotsky to Serge (in Russian)
Letter 31: Serge to Trotsky (in French)
Letter 32: Trotsky to Serge (in French)
Letter 33: Serge to Trotsky (in French)
Letter 34: Serge to Trotsky (in Russian)
Letter 35: Trotsky to Serge (in French)
Letter 36: Serge to Trotsky (in Russian)
Letter 37: Serge to Trotsky (in Russian)
Letter 38: Trotsky to Serge (in Russian)
Letter 39: Serge to Trotsky (in Russian)
Letter 40: Trotsky to Serge (in French)
Letter 41: Serge to Trotsky (in Russian)
3 – Serge, Trotsky, and The Spanish Revolution
Introduction / D.J. Cotterill
THE DOCUMENTS
Victor Serge. Letter to Andrés Nin
Victor Serge. Letter to La Batalla
Victor Serge. ‘Crimes in Russia, Intrigues in Spain’. From La Révolution prolétarienne
Victor Serge. Letter to the Executive Committee of the POUM in La Batalla
Victor Serge. ‘Notes on the Spanish Drama’. From Les Humbles
Leon Trotsky. ‘The Murder of Andrés Nin by Agents of the GPU’. August 8, 1937
Victor Serge. ‘A Goodbye to Andreu Nin’. From La Révolution prolétarienne
Leon Trotsky. ‘The Capture of Power Was Possible in May’
Leon Trotsky. ‘Role of the POUM’
4 – Kronstadt and the Fourth International
Introduction / Susan Weissman
THE DOCUMENTS
Leon Trotsky. Extract from letter to Wendelin Thomas, 6 July 1937
Victor Serge. Extract from ‘Fiction and Fact. Kronstadt’
Victor Serge. ‘Ideas and Facts; Kronstadt 1921 – Against the Sectarian Spirit – Bolshevism and Anarchism’
Leon Trotsky. Extract from ‘The Hue and Cry over Kronstadt’
Victor Serge. Extract from ‘Once More: Kronstadt’
Leon Trotsky. Extract from ‘More on the Suppression of Kronstadt’
Victor Serge. ‘Reply to Trotsky’ Extract from ‘A Letter and Some Notes’
Victor Serge. ‘Marxism in Our Time’
Leon Trotsky. Extract from ‘Victor Serge and the Fourth International’
Leon Trotsky. Extract from ‘Intellectual ex-Radicals and World Reaction’
Leon Trotsky. ‘The Masses Have Nothing To Do With It!’ Extract from ‘The Moralists and Sycophants against Marxism’
Victor Serge. ‘Letter to Angelica Balabanova’
Victor Serge. Extract from ‘My Break with Trotsky’
5 – Victor Serge and the Left Opposition
Introduction / Philip Spencer
THE DOCUMENTS
Victor Serge. ‘The Old Man and the Fourth International’
Victor Serge. The Life of the Oppositionists
Victor Serge. ‘Obituary. Leon Sedov’
Victor Serge. ‘In Memory: L.D Trotsky’
Victor Serge. ‘On Trotskyism’
Victor Serge. Entries from the Carnets, 1944