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\"Here is the story of a child born at the dawn of a social movement. At first the protests were in small villages and at universities. But then they spread. People drew sustenance from other social movements in other countries. And then the unthinkable happened. The protagonist in this fictionalized children's memoir is a witness and a participant, fearful sometimes, brave sometimes too, and when things change, this child who is now an adult is as surprised as anyone\"-- Provided by publisher.
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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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Beneath the citadel
Cassa, the orphaned daughter of rebels, and friends Alys, Evander, and Newt, fight back against the high council of Eldra, which has ruled for centuries based solely on ancient prophesies.
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Fear and Other Stories
Fear and Other Storiesis a translation from Yiddish to English of the collected stories of Chana Blankshteyn (~1860–1939), a woman who may be almost entirely forgotten now but was widely admired during her long and productive life. The mere existence of t
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City of bastards
Under the protection of the king in the capital of Lightspire, Tilla believes she is safe from the treasonous machinations of her father Lord Kent, but when her University roommate is murdered, Tilla finds herself deep in a plot involving religious cultists, bloodmages, and Western insurgents.
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March 1917
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 suppress the
revolution in Petrograd. Meanwhile, victory speeches ring out at
Petrograd's Tauride Palace. Inside, two parallel power structures
emerge: the Provisional Government and the Executive Committee of
the Petrograd Soviet of Workers' and Soldiers' Deputies, which
sends out its famous \"Order No. 1,\" presaging the destruction of
the army. The troops sent to suppress the Petrograd revolution are
halted by the army's own top commanders. The Emperor is detained
and abdicates, and his ministers are jailed and sent to the Peter
and Paul Fortress. This sweeping, historical novel is a must-read
for Solzhenitsyn's many fans, as well as those interested in
twentieth-century history, Russian history and literature, and
military history.
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The defiant
\"Alenna Shawcross and the rebels head off the wheel to start a revolution\"-- Provided by publisher.
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The Execution of Mayor Yin and Other Stories from the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution, Revised Edition
Praise for the first edition: ... in the great
tradition of Orwell and Solzhenitsyn; its true subject is the survival -- and
sometimes the defeat -- of the human spirit in its lonely quest for integrity.
-- Time The almost childlike directness of Chen's tales... is
captured in the very lightly revised translations of this new edition... Highly
recommended. -- Choice A classic of modern world literature, this
collection of stories provides a vivid and poignant eyewitness view of everyday life
in China during the Cultural Revolution. For this edition, Howard Goldblatt has
thoroughly revised the text and updated it to Pinyin romanization. In a new
introduction, Perry Link reflects on the book's significance in the post-Tiananmen
era. Twenty-five years after its first publication, The Execution of Mayor Yin has
lost none of its power to move the reader, and remains unmatched as a document of
the period.
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