April 1917: The Red Wheel, Node IV, Book 1

April 1917, Book 1, captures the division and helplessness of Russia’s first Revolutionary rulers, paving the way for the victory of the ruthless Bolsheviks later that year.

One of the masterpieces of world literature, The Red Wheel is Nobel prize–winner Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn’s multivolume epic work about the Russian Revolution told in the form of a historical novel. April 1917—the fourth node—shows the intractable divisions that would lead Russia to catastrophic Communist dictatorship and ...