March 1917 : the Red Wheel, node III (8 March-31 March) / Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn ; translated by Marian Schwartz.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Solzhenit︠s︡yn, Aleksandr Isaevich, 1918-2008, author.

Contributor:

Schwartz, Marian, 1951- translator.

Solzhenit︠s︡yn, Aleksandr Isaevich, 1918-2008.

Series:

Center for Ethics and Culture Solzhenitsyn series

The Center for Ethics and Culture Solzhenitsyn Series

The red wheel : a narrative in discrete periods of time

Standardized Title:

Krasnoe koleso. Mart semnadt͡satogo. English

Language:

English

Russian

Subjects (All):

History.

Russia--History--February Revolution, 1917--Fiction.

Russia.

Genre:

Fiction.

History.

Physical Description:

<3> volumes : maps ; 25 cm.

Other Title:

Red Wheel, node III (8 March-31 March)

Place of Publication:

Notre Dame, Indiana : University of Notre Dame Press, [2017]-

Language Note:

Translated into English from the Russian.

Summary:

"The Red Wheel is Solzhenitsyn's magnum opus about the Russian Revolution. Solzhenitsyn tells this story in the form of a meticulously researched historical novel, supplemented by newspaper headlines of the day, fragments of street action, cinematic screenplay, and historical overview. The first two nodes, August 1914 and November 1916, focus on Russia's crises and recovery, on revolutionary terrorism and its suppression, on the missed opportunity of Pyotr Stolypin's reforms, and how the surge of patriotism in August 1914 soured as Russia bled in World War I. The third node, March 1917, tells the story of the Russian Revolution itself, during which not only does the Imperial government melt in the face of the mob, but the leaders of the opposition prove utterly incapable of controlling the course of events. The action of book 1 (of four) of March 1917 is set during March 8-12. The absorbing narrative tells the stories of more than fifty characters during the days when the Russian Empire begins to crumble. Bread riots in the capital, Petrograd, go unchecked at first, and the police are beaten and killed by mobs. Efforts to put down the violence using the army trigger a mutiny in the numerous reserve regiments housed in the city, who kill their officers and go and rampage. The anti-Tsarist bourgeois opposition, horrified by the violence, scrambles to declare that it is provisionally taking power, while socialists immediately create a Soviet alternative to undermine it. Meanwhile, Emperor Nikolai II is away at military headquarters and his wife Aleksandra is isolated outside Petrograd, caring for their sick children. Suddenly, the viability of the Russian state itself is called into question. The Red Wheel has been compared to Tolstoy's War and Peace, for each work aims to narrate the story of an era in a way that elevates its universal significance" -- Publisher's description.

Contents:

<Bk. 1. [Thursday, 8 March-Monday, 12 March]

Bk. 2. [Tuesday, 13 March-Thursday, 15 March]

Bk. 3. [Friday, 16 March-Thursday, 22 March]>

Notes:

Includes index.

Related Work:

Solzhenit︠s︡yn, Aleksandr Isaevich, 1918-2008. Mart semnadt︠s︡atogo. English

ISBN:

9780268102654

0268102651

9780268106850

0268106851

9780268201708

0268201706

OCLC:

1081039383

Publisher Number:

99988674540