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 Midnight in the Century, Serge's 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. Surviving the dark winter night of the soul, he rediscovers the only real, and most radical, form of resistance: hope.
| ISBN: | 9781590177709 |
| Publication date: | 12th March 2015 |
| Author: | Victor Serge, Richard Greeman |
| Publisher: | New York Review Books |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 229 pages |
| Series: | New York Review Books Classics |
| Genres: |
Historical Fiction Narrative theme: Politics War, combat and military adventure fiction General Fiction |