Midnight in the century
Serge, Victor, 1890-19472015
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In 1933, Victor Serge was arrested by Stalin's police, interrogated, and held in solitary confinement for more than eighty days. Released, he spent two years in exile in remote Orenburg. These experiences were the inspiration for this searching novel about revolutionaries living in the shadow of Stalin's betrayal of the revolution. Among the exiles gathered in the town of Chenor, or Black-Waters, are the granite-faced Old Bolshevik Ryzhik, stoic yet gentle Varvara, and Rodion, a young, self-educated worker who is trying to make sense of the world and history. They struggle in the unlikely company of Russian Orthodox Old Believers who are also suffering for their faith. Against unbelievable odds, the young Rodion will escape captivity and find a new life in the wild.
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New York : New York Review Books, 2015.
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240 pages ; 21 cm.
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Translated from the French by Richard Greeman.
ISBN:
9781590177709 (pbk)
Dewey class:
AF
LC class:
PQ2637.E49
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EnglishFrench
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4139188
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