Part of a sequence of novels about the Russian Revolution carrying the overall title of The Red Wheel. The other titles in this series include October 1916 and Lenin in Zurich. Other books by Solzhenitsyn include The Gulag Archipelago.
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Part of a sequence of novels about the Russian Revolution carrying the overall title of The Red Wheel. The other titles in this series include October 1916 and Lenin in Zurich. Other books by Solzhenitsyn include The Gulag Archipelago.
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Map on endpapers. VG in VG DJ. "The general concept of this novel came to my mind in 1936, when I was just leaving secondary school. " This first part of. This major work, is set at the outbreak of the First World War, and its moral concern is to establish the responsibility for Russia's defeat in the battle of Tannenberg. Limiting itself to the first two weeks of the war, the novel describes the Russian offensive into East Prussia, which resulted in the encirclement and defeat of Gen. Samsonov's 2nd Army by Hindenburg. This disaster revealed the dry rot at the core of Tsarism and hastened its downfall. " Drawing of Solzhenitsyn by Karl W. Stuecklen on back of DJ. DJ price clipped and edge wear.