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August 1914
In this monumental narrative of the outbreak of World War I and the ill-fated Russian offensive into East Prussia, the author has written \"a dramatically new interpretation of Russian history.\" From the alternating viewpoints of all involved, August 1914 reconstructs the assassination of the tsarist prime minister Pyotr Stolypin, a crucial event in the years leading up to the Revolution of 1917. Stolypin, the sole voice of reason among the advisers to Tsar Nikolai II, died at the hands of the anarchist Dmitri Bogrov, and with him perished Russia's last hope for reform. The first \"knot\" in Solzhenitsyn's multipart epic, The Red Wheel, August 1914 is a major work from the Russian Nobelist, back in part for the centenary of World War I and of the beginnings of the Russian Revolution.
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March 1917
To commemorate the 100th anniversary of the Russian Revolution,
the University of Notre Dame Press is proud to publish Nobel
Prize-winner Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn's epic work March
1917 , Node III, Book 1, of The Red Wheel .
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.
March 1917 -the third node-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 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. In much the same
way as Homer's Iliad became the representative account of
the Greek world and therefore the basis for Greek civilization,
these historical epics perform a parallel role for our modern
world.
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Filming the Unfilmable
This volume shares the fascinating story of the cinematic adaptation of one of the world's most influential novels. An all-encompassing account of the film's production and reception, the account is filled with little-known facts and valuable insight into Solzhenitsyn's complex relationship with filmmaking.
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