Witness to the German Revolution In 1923 history stood at a cross roads. Serge unapologetically lent his pen to those fighting for international workers' revolution.

Following in the wake of the carnage reaped across Europe by world war, German workers undertook a struggle that would prove decisive in determining the course of the entire twentieth century. In 1923 the fledgling Comintern dispatched Victor Serge, with his peerless journalistic skills, to Berlin to expedite the German Revolution and write these moving reports from the battlefront.