# Event Details

- **Event Name**: Two Revolutionaries
- **Event Start and End Date**: Wed, 07 Jan, 2026 at 09:00 am
- **Event Description**: This is a live, online course held on Zoom. Enrollment will be capped at about 25 students. This class will be conducted in English, and any readings will be in English.

6 Sessions | Wednesdays & Fridays*
9:00am – 10:15am ET
January 7, 9, 14, 16, 21, 22 

*Note: The final class will be held the evening of Thursday, January 22, 6:30pm-7:45pm ET

Instructor: Jonathan Brent

In his great work, Memoirs of a Revolutionary, Victor Serge writes about the “psychosis of power.” This class will focus on the evolution of the absolutist, totalitarian “mind” through the lens of the life of two important participants of the 1917 Bolshevik Revolution who both sought to understand this “psychosis.” Victor Serge and Isaac Nachman Steinberg, one a Russian, the other an observant Jew. Serge (aka, Viktor Lvovich Kibalchik; 1890-1947) was born in Brussels to Russian parents. An Anarchist by temperament and education, he joined the Bolsheviks in 1919. Expelled from the Party in 1927/28 for joining Trotsky’s Opposition, he was imprisoned in 1928 and again in 1933 to 1936. His Memoirs of a Revolutionary, 1901-1941, perhaps his greatest work, provides unique—often astonishing—insights into the times in which he lived, the movements for which he fought, into himself and his many colleagues. His vision of a just and equitable world in a time of extremism and crisis is especially valuable today.

I.N. Steinberg (1888-1957) was born into an orthodox Jewish family in Daugavpils, Latvia. He studied law at Moscow University and became a Socialist Revolutionary elected to the Constituent Assembly—the ruling government body after the abdication of Tsar Nicholas II, March 15, 1917. From Dec. 1917 to March 1918, Steinberg was Commissar of Justice in Lenin’s new Bolshevik government but resigned in protest of the Treaty of Brest Litovsk and was arrested in 1919. In 1923 he fled Russia after learning of an assassination plot against him and settled in Berlin. In 1933, he fled to London and became one of the co-founders of the Freeland League, an organization formed to help displaced and threatened Jews find a homeland. He came to America after the War, became a member of the YIVO board of trustees and gave YIVO his extensive and extraordinary archive. Leo Steinberg, the art critic and scholar, was his son. We will read his memoir In the Workshop of the Revolution, a deeply personal, brilliant account of the revolution and the evolution of the doomed Soviet experiment.
- **Event URL**: https://allevents.in/new-york/two-revolutionaries/200029164725016
- **Event Categories**: workshops, art, parties, entertainment, virtual
- **Interested Audience**: 
  - total_interested_count: 16

## Ticket Details


## Event venue details

- **city**: New York
- **state**: NY
- **country**: United States
- **location**: 15 W 16th St, New York, NY, United States, New York 10011
- **lat**: 40.73797
- **long**: -73.99388
- **full address**: 15 W 16th St, New York, NY, United States, New York 10011

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## FAQs

- **Q**: When and where is Two Revolutionaries being held?
  - **A:** Two Revolutionaries takes place on Wed, 07 Jan, 2026 at 09:00 am to Wed, 07 Jan, 2026 at 09:00 am at 15 W 16th St, New York, NY, United States, New York 10011.
- **Q**: Who is organizing Two Revolutionaries?
  - **A:** Two Revolutionaries is organized by YIVO Institute for Jewish Research.
- **Q**: Who is this event for? Is it right for me?
  - **A:** Two Revolutionaries is ideal for curious learners, students, and skill-builders looking to gain hands-on knowledge and practical expertise in a focused, interactive setting. Whether you're a first-time attendee or a longtime enthusiast in New York, this event is thoughtfully curated to deliver a standout experience worth every moment. If Two Revolutionaries sounds like your kind of event, don't wait - spots fill up fast.

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