November 1916: A Novel: The Red Wheel II
In time for the centenary of the beginning of the Russian Revolution, a new edition of the Russian Nobelist's major work

The month of November 1916 in Russia was outwardly quiet—the proverbial calm before the storm—but beneath the placid surface, society seethed fiercely.

In Petrograd, as St. Petersburg was then known, luxury-store windows are still brightly lit; the Duma debates the monarchy, the course of war, and clashing paths to reform; the workers in the miserable munitions factories veer toward sedition.

At the front, all is stalemate, while in the countryside sullen anxiety among hard-pressed farmers is rapidly replacing patriotism.

In Zurich, Lenin, with the smallest of all revolutionary groups, plots his sinister logistical miracle.

With masterly and moving empathy, through the eyes of both historical and fictional protagonists, Solzhenitsyn unforgettably transports us to that time and place—the last of pre-Soviet Russia.

November 1916 is the second volume in Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn's multipart work, The Red Wheel. This volume concentrates on a historical turning point, or "knot," as the wheel rolls inexorably toward revolution.

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November 1916: A Novel: The Red Wheel II
In time for the centenary of the beginning of the Russian Revolution, a new edition of the Russian Nobelist's major work

The month of November 1916 in Russia was outwardly quiet—the proverbial calm before the storm—but beneath the placid surface, society seethed fiercely.

In Petrograd, as St. Petersburg was then known, luxury-store windows are still brightly lit; the Duma debates the monarchy, the course of war, and clashing paths to reform; the workers in the miserable munitions factories veer toward sedition.

At the front, all is stalemate, while in the countryside sullen anxiety among hard-pressed farmers is rapidly replacing patriotism.

In Zurich, Lenin, with the smallest of all revolutionary groups, plots his sinister logistical miracle.

With masterly and moving empathy, through the eyes of both historical and fictional protagonists, Solzhenitsyn unforgettably transports us to that time and place—the last of pre-Soviet Russia.

November 1916 is the second volume in Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn's multipart work, The Red Wheel. This volume concentrates on a historical turning point, or "knot," as the wheel rolls inexorably toward revolution.

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In time for the centenary of the beginning of the Russian Revolution, a new edition of the Russian Nobelist's major work

The month of November 1916 in Russia was outwardly quiet—the proverbial calm before the storm—but beneath the placid surface, society seethed fiercely.

In Petrograd, as St. Petersburg was then known, luxury-store windows are still brightly lit; the Duma debates the monarchy, the course of war, and clashing paths to reform; the workers in the miserable munitions factories veer toward sedition.

At the front, all is stalemate, while in the countryside sullen anxiety among hard-pressed farmers is rapidly replacing patriotism.

In Zurich, Lenin, with the smallest of all revolutionary groups, plots his sinister logistical miracle.

With masterly and moving empathy, through the eyes of both historical and fictional protagonists, Solzhenitsyn unforgettably transports us to that time and place—the last of pre-Soviet Russia.

November 1916 is the second volume in Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn's multipart work, The Red Wheel. This volume concentrates on a historical turning point, or "knot," as the wheel rolls inexorably toward revolution.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780374534707
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Publication date: 08/19/2014
Series: FSG Classics , #2
Edition description: Reprint
Pages: 1040
Product dimensions: 6.10(w) x 9.40(h) x 1.90(d)

About the Author

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, winner of the 1970 Nobel Prize in Literature, was born in 1918. In February 1945, while he was captain of a reconnaissance battery of the Soviet Army, he was arrested and sentenced to an eight-year term in a labor camp and permanent internal exile, which was cut short by Khrushchev's reforms, allowing him to return from Kazakhstan to Central Russia in 1956. Although permitted to publish One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich in 1962—which remained his only full-length work to have appeared in his homeland until 1990—Solzhenitsyn was by 1969 expelled from the Writers' Union. The publication in the West of his other novels and, in particular, of The Gulag Archipelago, brought retaliation from the authorities. In 1974, Solzhenitsyn was arrested, stripped of his Soviet citizenship, and forcibly flown to Frankfurt. Solzhenitsyn and his wife and children moved to the United States in 1976. In September 1991, the Soviet government dismissed treason charges against him; Solzhenitsyn returned to Russia in 1994. He died in Moscow in 2008.

Table of Contents

Chapter 13
Chapter 27
Chapter 320
Chapter 432
Chapter 540
Chapter 650
Chapter 7(Origins of the Kadets)57
Chapter 881
Chapter 991
Chapter 1097
Chapter 11107
Chapter 12116
Chapter 13125
Chapter 14140
Chapter 15(From the notebooks of Fyodor Kovynev)158
Chapter 16173
Chapter 17183
Chapter 18195
Chapter 19(Society, the government, and the Tsar in 1915)206
Chapter 20267
Document No. 1November 1916. To the Petersburg Proletariat284
Chapter 21284
Chapter 22300
Chapter 23319
Chapter 24328
Chapter 25334
Chapter 26346
Chapter 27367
Chapter 28380
Chapter 29390
Chapter 30398
Chapter 31408
Chapter 32425
Chapter 33436
Chapter 34443
Chapter 35457
Chapter 36474
Chapter 37480
Chapter 38497
Chapter 39509
Chapter 40519
Chapter 41(Aleksandr Guchkov)534
Chapter 42560
Chapter 43574
Chapter 44586
Chapter 45602
Chapter 46619
Chapter 47635
Chapter 48646
Chapter 49661
Chapter 50669
Document No. 2Emperor and Empress: extracts from their correspondence679
Chapter 51680
Chapter 52685
Chapter 53693
Chapter 54696
Chapter 55700
Chapter 56716
Document No. 3A student handbill727
Chapter 57728
Chapter 58734
Chapter 59741
Document No. 4Prince Lvov to Rodzyanko748
Chapter 60748
Chapter 61758
Chapter 62(The Progressive Bloc)766
Chapter 63790
Chapter 64837
Chapter 65(The State Duma, 14 November)864
Chapter 66883
Chapter 67894
Chapter 68901
Chapter 69914
Chapter 70929
Chapter 71(The State Duma, 16-17 November)937
Document No. 5A circular telegram from Sturmer955
Chapter 72955
Chapter 73970
Chapter 74977
Chapter 75984
Index of Names1001
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