Anarchist and a leading player in the Russian Revolution in 1918, Victor Serge Kibalchich Lvovich Napoleon was the pseudonym adopted by the Spanish Tierra y Libertad magazine was also one of the first critics to Stalinism. Endowed with a remarkable capacity for letters, worked in the Comintern as a journalist, editor and translator. Son of exiles from Tsarist Russia, completely surrendered to the ideas and activities that conferred the twentieth century his misery and splendor. It was the only revolutionary who did it, but one of the few that did not confuse these two extremes and, star of splendor seemed to embody the Russian Revolution, warned from the first moments of misery in which he rushed.

Serge was in contact with its leaders, from Lenin to Trotsky, Bukharin and Zinoviev, and was therefore committed to denounce what still installed on the original faith, he considered serious errors, such as the establishment of the Czech instead of court with guarantees .