{"product_id":"midnight-in-the-century-paperback-by-victor-serge-translated-from-the-french-and-with-an-introduction-by-richard-greeman","title":"Midnight in the Century Paperback by Victor Serge, translated from the French and with an introduction by Richard Greeman","description":"\u003cbody\u003e\n                            \n                                \n                                    \u003ch2\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eProduct Details\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/h2\u003e\n                                    \u003cul\u003e\n                                        \u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublisher\u003c\/strong\u003e: \u003cb\u003eNYRB Classics\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cb\u003e(2014-12-16)\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n                                        \u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eLanguage\u003c\/strong\u003e: \u003cstrong\u003eEnglish\u003c\/strong\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n                                        \u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePaperback\u003c\/strong\u003e: \u003cstrong\u003e240\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003cb\u003epages\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n                                        \u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eISBN-13\u003c\/strong\u003e: \u003cstrong\u003e9781590177709\u003c\/strong\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n                                        \u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eItem Weight\u003c\/strong\u003e: \u003cstrong\u003e249.48\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003cb\u003egrams\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n                                        \u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions\u003c\/strong\u003e: \u003cstrong\u003e7.99 x 5.15 x 0.53\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003cb\u003ecm\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n                                    \u003c\/ul\u003e\n                                    \u003cbr\u003e\n                                    \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn 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 \u003ci\u003eMidnight in the Century\u003c\/i\u003e, Serge’s searching novel about revolutionaries living in the shadow of Stalin’s betrayal of the revolution. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 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. \u003c\/p\u003e\n                                    \u003ch3\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\n                                    \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eVictor Serge\u003c\/b\u003e (1890–1947) was born Victor Lvovich Kibalchich to Russian anti-tsarist exiles, impoverished intellectuals living “by chance” in Brussels. A precocious anarchist firebrand, young Victor was sentenced to five years in a French penitentiary in 1912. Expelled to Spain in 1917, he participated in an anarcho-syndicalist uprising before leaving to join the Revolution in Russia. Detained for more than a year in a French concentration camp, Serge arrived in St. Petersburg early in 1919 and joined the Bolsheviks, serving in the press services of the Communist International. An outspoken critic of Stalin, Serge was expelled from the Party and briefly arrested in 1928. Henceforth an “unperson,” he completed three novels (\u003ci\u003eMen in Prison\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eBirth of Our Power\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eConquered City\u003c\/i\u003e) and a history (\u003ci\u003eYear One of the Russian Revolution\u003c\/i\u003e), all published in Paris. Arrested again in Russia and deported to Central Asia in 1933, he was allowed to leave the USSR in 1936 after international protests by militants and prominent writers like André Gide and Romain Rolland. Using his insider’s knowledge, Serge published a stream of impassioned, documented exposés of Stalin’s Moscow show trials and machinations in Spain, which went largely unheeded. Stateless, penniless, hounded by Stalinist agents, Serge lived in precarious exile in Brussels, Paris, Vichy France, and Mexico City, where he died in 1947. His classic \u003ci\u003eMemoirs of a Revolutionary\u003c\/i\u003e and his great last novels, \u003ci\u003eUnforgiving Years\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Case of Comrade Tulayev\u003c\/i\u003e (both available as NYRB Classics), were written “for the desk drawer” and published posthumously.  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e Richard Greeman\u003c\/b\u003e has translated and written the introductions for five of Serge’s novels (including \u003ci\u003eUnforgiving Years\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eConquered City\u003c\/i\u003e, both available as NYRB Classics). A veteran socialist and co-founder of the Praxis Center and Victor Serge Library in Moscow, Greeman is the author of the Web site \u003ci\u003eThe Invisible International\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n                                \n                            \n                            \u003c\/body\u003e","brand":"Best Bookstore","offers":[{"title":"New","offer_id":45445299830945,"sku":"BBSNIJ9781590177709","price":25.99,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0525\/2084\/5473\/files\/9781590177709.jpg?v=1764220365","url":"https:\/\/www.bestbookstore.ca\/products\/midnight-in-the-century-paperback-by-victor-serge-translated-from-the-french-and-with-an-introduction-by-richard-greeman","provider":"Best Book Store","version":"1.0","type":"link"}