Conquered City (New York Review Books Classics)

Conquered City (New York Review Books Classics)
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1919â€“1920: St. Petersburg, city of the czars, has fallen to the Revolution. Camped out in the splendid palaces of the former regime, the cityâ€™s new masters seek to cement their control, even as the counterrevolutionary White Army regroups. Conquered City, Victor Sergeâ€™s most unrelenting narrative, is structured like a detective story, one in which the new political regime tracks down and eliminates its enemiesâ€”the spies, speculators, andÂ traitors hidden among the mass of common people.Â

Conquered City is about terror: the Red Terror and the White Terror. But mainly about the Red, the Communists who have dared to pick up the weapons of powerâ€”police, guns, jails, spies, treacheryâ€”in the doomed gamble that by wielding them righteously, they can put an end to the need for terror, perhaps forever. Conquered City is their tragedy and testament.
Country USA
Brand New York Review of Books
Manufacturer NYRB Classics
Binding Paperback
Color Blue
ReleaseDate 2011-01-11
UnitCount 1
EANs 9781590173664

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