Broken Eggs of the Soviet Omelet

Memoirs of a Revolutionary 1901-1941, by Victor Serge. Oxford, $10.00

The Prophet Outcast, by Isaac Deutscher. Oxford, $9.50 The memoirs of victor serge and the concluding volume of Isaac Deutscher’s trilogy on Leon Trotsky are descriptions of the development of the Soviet messianic totalitarian system by two of its heretics and victims. Of these books, that of Serge is broader in its vision, more human in its outlook and richer in its original insights.