During Stalin's purges, Nicholas Rubashov, an aging revolutionary, is imprisoned and psychologically tortured by the party he has devoted his life to. Under mounting pressure to confess to crimes he did not commit, Rubashov relives a career that embodies the ironies and betrayals of a revolutionary dictatorship that believes it is an instrument of liberation.
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ISBN: 9781476785554 (hc)
ISBN: 9781416540267 (pbk.)
Physical Description:ix, 273 p. ; 21 cm.print
Publisher:New York : Scribner, 2006, c1941.
General Note: Translated from the German.Top 100 novel