"Nothing in it has dated.... It is less an autobiography than a sustained, incandescent lyric (half-pantheist, half-surrealist) of rebellion and battle."
–Times Literary Supplement
"Surely one of the most moving accounts of revolutionary experience ever written."
–Neal Ascherson, New York Review of Books
"Probably the most remarkable of his novels.... Of all the European writers who have taken revolution as their theme, Serge is second only to Conrad.... Here is a writer with a magnificent eye for the panoramic sweep of historical events and an unsparingly precise moral insight."
–Francis King, Sunday Telegraph
"Intense, vivid, glowing with energy and power... A wonderful picture of revolution and revolutionaries... The power of the novel is in its portrayal of the men who are involved."
–Manchester Evening News
"Birth of Our Power is one of the finest romances of revolution ever written, and confirms Serge as an outstanding chronicler of his turbulent era.... As an epic, Birth of Our Power has lost none of its strength."
–Lawrence M. Bensky, New York Times