In the Middle of the Century

"In the Middle of the Century" is Sergei Alexandrovich Snegov’s confession-like book, containing practically eighteen years he spent in prisons, camps, and exile. Sergei Alexandrovich was arrested in 1936 in Leningrad, and as a particularly important criminal he was taken to Moscow—onto Lubyanka, the most famous political prison of the Soviet Union.

The investigation lasted ten long months. In 1937, the Military Collegium of the Supreme Court of the USSR sentenced Snegov to ten years in prison on charges of anti-Soviet activity, terrorism, and creating a counterrevolutionary organization. He served one year in Vologda, a year and a half in Solovki, and then the rest of his term in Norilsk.

About the people his fate put in his path, about friendship, betrayal, courage, and the strength of faith—Sergei Alexandrovich Snegov tells with exceptional openness in this book.