The author of this book is the Son of Narodnaya Volya emigrants, initially a Socialist Revolutionary and anarchist publicist of Paris; then a prominent Bolshevik and member of the Comintern, a participant in the defense of Petrograd and the preparation of the German revolution; finally, an active supporter of Trotsky, pressed by the GPU, who also found his last refuge in Mexico... All this is he - Viktor Lvovich Kibalchich, who gained fame under the pseudonym Victor Serge. At the same time, sharing many of Trotsky’s positions, he had a number of disagreements with him regarding anarchism, and, accordingly, the Kronstadt events and the nature of the USSR. He belonged to the international generation of revolutionaries of the first third of the twentieth century, whose representatives paid dearly for their attempt to remake the world, freeing it from despotism and class inequality. They had great victories, but they were followed by the most terrible defeats and the almost complete physical extermination of the revolutionary vanguard by totalitarian regimes. Victor Serge turned out to be one of the few members of the Left Opposition who managed to escape from the dungeons of Stalinism. His popularity and intercession of Romain Rolland saved him. And that is precisely why his memories are so important to us.