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Arthur Koestler's novel used by Jiang to explain why an old Bolshevik might confess before execution.
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Darkness at Noon
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A transcript-matched topic anchored by excerpts such as "...this is Arthur Kessler, and he wrote a book called Darkness at Noon, which is really one of the best books ever written, okay?..."
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The show-trial confessions are explained through revolutionary original sin: old Bolsheviks had sacrificed everything for the revolution, so they could accept self-sacrifice to cleanse and preserve it.
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"...this is Arthur Kessler, and he wrote a book called Darkness at Noon, which is really one of the best books ever written, okay?..."
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"And the argument here is, if you spend your entire life doing bad things, you're not going to admit this is all for nothing,..."
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