https://www.newstatesman.com/culture/2013/01/what-am-i-fighting-george-orwell-arthur-koestlers-darkness-noon
By George Orwell. "Darkness at Noon" (1940) dramatises the Moscow show trials and Stalin's "Great Purge" of Old Bolsheviks. In his review for the New Statesman, Orwell praised Koestler's "inner knowledge of totalitarian methods": "The common people," argues the Party operative Ivanov, "cannot grasp 'deviation' is a