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Copyright © 1950, copyright renewed 1967 by the Victor Serge Foundation

Introduction copyright © 2004 by Susan Sontag

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Cover photograph: Victor Serge in San Juan de Parangaricutiro, Mexico, 1944

Cover design: Katy Homans

Published by arrangement with The Victor Serge Foundation, 16 rue de la

Teinturerie, Montpellier 34000 France, a nonprofit corporation dedicated

to promoting Serge’s writings and ideas internationally through publication,

translation, research, and related activities.

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Serge, Victor, 1890–1947.

[Affaire Toulaév. English]

The case of Comrade Tulayev / by Victor Serge ; translation by Willard R. Trask;

introduction by Susan Sontag.

p. cm. — (New York Review Books classics)

ISBN 1-59017-064-4 (alk. paper)

I. Trask, Willard R. II. Title. III. Series.

PQ2637.E49A6513 2004

843’.912—dc22

2004001563

eISBN 978-1-59017-426-5

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