September 7, 2001

Victor Serge, Conscience of the Revolution

By SCOTT McLEMEE

Scholars rediscover a largely forgotten Soviet dissident writer

Wandering around Buenos Aires in June of last year, Susan Weissman, an associate professor of politics at California's Saint Mary's College, found herself on a street lined with bookstores -- where, in the window of one shop, she noticed a display of the latest issue of El Rodaballo, a literary and political journal. The magazine's design was elegant, but what really caught her eye was its headline: "The Contemporary