March 1917 by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Paperback Book 9780268106867

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyns March 1917 Book 2 covers three days of the February Revolution when the nation unraveled leading to the Bolshevik takeover eight months laterThe Red Wheel is Nobel Prizewinner Aleksandr Solzhenitsyns multivolume epic work about the Russian Revolution He spent decades writing about just four of the most important periods or quotnodesquot This is the first time that the monumental March 1917the third nodehas 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 eventsThe action of Book 2 of four of March 1917 is set during March 1315 1917 the Russian Revolutions 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 IIs order the Supreme Command sends troops to suppress the revolution in Petrograd Meanwhile victory speeches ring out at Petrograds Tauride Palace Inside...