SOLZHENITSYN, ALEKSANDR
In March 1917, Book 4 the willing and unwilling participants of the Russian Revolution try to make sense of their next steps amidst unraveling chaos.One of the masterpieces of world literature, The Red Wheel is Nobel prize-winner Aleksandr Solzhenitsyns multivolume epic work about the Russian Revolution told in the form of a historical novel. March 1917-the third node-chronicles the mayhem, day by day, of the Russian Revolution. Book 4 presents, for the first time in English, the conclusion of this four-volume revolutionary saga.The action of Book 4 is set during March 23-31, 1917. Book 4 portrays a cast of thousands in motion and agitation as every stratum of Russian society-the army on the front lines, the countryside, the Volga merchants, the Don Cossacks, the Orthodox Church-is racked by the confusing new reality. Soldiers start to fraternize across trenches with the enemy. The Grand Duke Nikolai Nikolaevich, the emperors uncle, arrives at military headquarters to assume the supreme command but is promptly dismissed by the new Provisional Gover
