March 1917

✍ Scribed by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

• Publisher: University of Notre Dame Press
• Year: 2019
• Tongue: en-US
• Weight: 791 KB
• Series: the Red Wheel, Node III 2
• Category: Fiction
• City: University of Notre Dame Press, 2019.
• ISBN: 0268106851

✦ Synopsis

The Red Wheel is Nobel Prize-winner Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn's multivolume epic work about the Russian Revolution. He spent decades writing about just four of the most important periods, or "nodes." This is the first time that the monumental March 1917--the third node--has been translated into English. It tells the story of the Russian Revolution itself, during which the Imperial government melts in the face of the mob, and the giants of the opposition also prove incapable of controlling the course of events.

The action of Book 2 (of four) of March 1917 is set during March 13-15, 1917, the Russian Revolution's turbulent second week. The revolution has already won inside the capital, Petrograd. News of the revolution flashes across all Russia through the telegraph system of the Ministry of Roads and Railways. But this is wartime, and the real power is with the army. At Emperor Nikolai II's order, the Supreme Command sends troops to...