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SHOW AND TELL Matthew Price on Victor Serge THE CASE OF COMRADE TULAYEV BY VICTOR SERGE NEW YORK: NEW YORK REVIEW BOOKS. 336 PAGES. $15.

VICTOR SERGE: THE COURSE IS SET ON HOPE BY SUSAN WEISSMAN

NEW YORK: VERSO. 320 PAGES. $35.

Relentlessly slandered during his lifetime, the work of Victor Serge has nearly been forgotten in ours. Outside a small but devoted fraternity of admirers, he is an obscure presence, dimly remembered and little read, a sad fate for a remarkable writer. A witness to revolution and reaction in Europe between the wars, Serge searingly evoked the epochal hopes and shattering setbacks of a generation of leftists in his voluminous journalism, many …