Sonnenfinsternis - Arthur Koestler (1940)

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Darkness at Noon (German: Sonnenfinsternis) is a novel by Hungarian-born British novelist Arthur Koestler, first published in 1940. His best-known work is the story of Rubashov, an old Bolshevik who is arrested, imprisoned, and tried for treason against the government he helped create.
The novel is set in 1939 during the Stalinist Great Purge and the Moscow show trials. Despite being based on real events, the novel names neither Russia nor the Soviets, and tends to use generic terms to describe people and organizations: for example, the Soviet government is referred to as "the Party" and Nazi Germany as "the Dictatorship." Joseph Stalin is represented by "Number One", a menacing dictator. The novel expresses the author's disillusionment with the Bolshevik ideology of the Soviet Union at the beginning of World War II.
In 1998, the Modern Library ranked Darkness at Noon number eight on its list of the 100 best English-language novels of the 20th century, even though Koestler wrote it in German.
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Fiction, History, Moscow Trials, Moscow, Russia, 1936-1937, Political prisoners, Totalitarianism, Revolution, 1917-1921, Russia, Soviet Union, fiction, Fiction, historical, Fiction, legal, Moscow Trials (Russia: 1936-1937) fast (OCoLC)fst01709887, Fiction, historical, generalPlaces
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