The very best known prose work with the winner of the 1980 Nobel Prize for Literature examines the moral and intellectual conflicts faced by women and men living under totalitarianism of the left or right.Written in the early 1950s, when Eastern Europe was in the grip of Stalinism and several Western intellectuals placed their hopes in the brand new order from the East, this classic function reveals in exciting detail the often beguiling allure of totalitarian rule to folks of all political beliefs and its own frightening effects in the minds of those who accept it.