[Marxism] Two New Books -- Victor Serge on Literature; Baruch Hirson on Frank Glass

["Paul Flewers" <trusscott.foundation@xxxxxxxxxx>]

List members may well be interested in these two new books.

Paul F

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Just published are the following 2 new books:

The Restless Revolutionary by Baruch Hirson

The previously untold story related by Baruch Hirson of Frank Glass, the
youngest delegate to the founding conference of the South African Communist
Party in 1921, the party's first full-time organiser and the first adherent
in South Africa to the International Left Opposition in 1928/29.

In the late 1920s he made close contact with the members of the Chinese
community in Johannesburg, prompting his move to Shanghai in 1931. Here he
was elected to the central commmittee of the Chinese Communist League,
becoming the Fourth International's authority on events in China.

In Shanghai he persuaded Harold Issacs, author of the still-highly regarded
'Tragedy of the Chinese Revolution' to adopt the political perspective of
Trotskyism.

Leaving China in 1941 for the United States he became a prominent member of
the American Socialist Workers Party.

Perhaps the books greatest value, writes Greg Benton, is its fresh light and
contribution to the ongoing reconstruction of the once-hidden history of the
Chinese Trotskyist movement.

The book is published by Porcupine Press and is 251 pp. It is priced at
£12.99 plus overseas postage of £3.00. To order by credit card please send
me two e-mails. The first with half the digits, the second with the
remaining digits plus the expiry date.

Also recently published is 'Victor Serge Collected Writings on Literature
and Revolution'

This collection gathers together for the first time  the bulk of Victor
Serge's literary criticism from the 1920s to the late 1940s, giving the
reader an invaluable contemporary account of the debates about literary
production in a socialist society, the role of intellectuals, the theory of
'proletarian' literature, as well as assessments of Soviet writers:
Mayakovsky, Gorky, Alexei Tolstoy, Alexander Blok, and the less well known
Korolenko, Pilnyak, Fedin, Bezymensky, Ivanov and others. Later chapters
deal with the 'massacre of writers' by Stalin in the late 1930s, the
suicides, disappearances and executions, making Serge's work not just an
exercise in literary criticism, but a history of the Russian Revolution
itself.

The book is published by Francis Boutle Publishers. It has been translated
and edited by the late Al Richardson and has an introduction by him. The
cost is also £12.99 plus overseas postage of £4.00. Payment details are as
of above. But if you order the two books the total overseas postage is
£6.00.

Please let me know if you have any queries.

Barry Buitekant
'Revolutionary History' Editorial Board barry.buitekant@xxxxxxxxx



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