March 1917 Audiobook Libro.fm

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The Red Wheel is Solzhenitsyns 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 nodesAugust 1914 and November 1916focus on Russias crises and recovery on revolutionary terrorism and its suppression on the missed opportunity of Pyotr Stolypins reforms and how the surge of patriotism in August 1914 soured as Russia bled in World War I

March 1917the third nodetells 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 absorbing narrative tells the stories of more than fifty characters during the days when the Russian Empire begins to crumble The antiTsarist 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

In much the same way as Homers 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