Russia · Novel
Darkness at Noon
In an unnamed totalitarian state modelled on Stalin’s Soviet Union, former revolutionary Rubashov is imprisoned by the party he helped build. As interrogators demand a confession, he revisits the people he sacrificed to political certainty. Koestler’s novel examines conscience, loyalty and the machinery of repression.
Totalitarianism; Political repression; Soviet Union; Stalinism; Conscience; Imprisonment