Victor Serge: Political, Social and Literary Critic of the USSR, 1919-1947: The Reflections and Activities of a Belgo-Russian Revolutionary Caught in the Orbit of Soviet Political History

Victor Serge is known primarily as a revolutionary novelist, yet his work has received little scholarly literary attention. Two doctoral dissertations have explored Serge's literary expression in the last twenty-five years. This study is the first examination of Serge's historical and political-economic writings on the Soviet Union, based on his published and unpublished writings

The French Army in politics, 1945-1962

(print) x, 427 p. ; 23 cm"A publication of the Mershon Center for Education in National Security."Part I : The "Great Mute" and the Beginnings of Its Demise, 1815-1945 -- I. The Parameters of Discipline 3 -- II. Foundations of Civilian Control 21 -- III. Disgrace through Discipline, 1939-1945 56 -- Part II : The Army and the Nation : Isolation and Estrangement -- IV. Reluctant Mercenaries 93 -- V. Social Origins and Politics 128 -- Part III : The Political Demands of Revolutionary-Guerrilla War -- VI. Political Challenge and Military Response 149 -- VII. Counterinsurgency and Military Politics 170 -- Part IV : Political Authority and Civilian Control -- VIII. Immobilisme and Delegation of Power 207 -- IX. Political Authority and Civilian Control in the Praetorian Years 240 -- Part V : Attitudes and Ideology -- X. The Rivals of Discipline 277 -- XI. The French Military Doctrine of La Guerre Revolutionnaire 308 -- XII. Cleavages within the Military Establishment 337 -- Conclusion 365 -- Bibliography 377 -- Index 40