Description: ALEKSANDR SOLZENHITSYN THE RED WHEEL A narrative in discrete periods of time THE BODLEY HEAD LONDON 1989 DESCRIPTION Book measures 240mm x 160mm approximately. vi + 816pp. Hardback book with dust jacket. CONDITION Book is strong and tight. Dust jacket is in very good condition with just the most minor of small creases to top edges. Internally, the pages are all in good clean condition throughout. Please always refer to photo images for a clearer indication of condition. We are always happy to provide further photo images if required. INTERESTING Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn (1918 to 2008) was a Russian writer and prominent Soviet dissident who helped to raise global awareness of political repression in the Soviet Union, especially the Gulag prison system. Solzhenitsyn was born into a family that defied the Soviet anti-religious campaign in the 1920s and remained devout members of the Russian Orthodox Church. However, Solzhenitsyn initially lost his faith in Christianity, became an atheist, and embraced Marxism–Leninism. While serving as a captain in the Red Army during World War II, Solzhenitsyn was arrested and sentenced to eight years in the Gulag and then internal exile for criticizing Soviet leader Joseph Stalin in a private letter. As a result of his experience in prison and the camps, he gradually became a philosophically minded Eastern Orthodox Christian. Solzhenitsyn was released and exonerated. He pursued writing novels about repression in the Soviet Union and his experiences. The Red Wheel is Solzhenitsyn’s multivolume epic on the revolutionary cataclysm of 1917 that ushered in the Soviet regime and the events leading up to the revolution. It is arguably the author’s chef d’oeuvre and was described by Solzhenitsyn as “the chief artistic design of my life.” Solzhenitsyn argued that the Russian revolutions of 1917 were the central event of the twentieth century—the decisive turning point from which so many of its other evils flowed. The destinies of not only Russia, but also Europe and the wider world, were irreversibly shaped by the events described in this work. They are well worth the supreme effort of historical recovery to which Solzhenitsyn devoted central decades of his life. The Red Wheel is a unique work – a “novel” that contains many chapters of “dramatized history” as well as carefully researched and detail-filled chapters on Tsar Nicholas II, Prime Minister Pyotr Stolypin, Lenin in Zurich and in Petrograd, and the Duma and the principal political groupings (Octobrists, Kadets, and assorted revolutionaries) in Russia on the eve of the revolutions of 1917.
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