Solzhenitsyns historical epic on the 1917 russian revolution, his chief. August 1914 is a historical novel examining the causes for the decline of 19th century aristocratic russia to a 20th century russia of socialist experimentation. Download august 1914 by aleksandr isaevich solzhenit. Read alexander solzhenitsyn online, read in mobile or kindle.
It is arguably the authors chef doeuvre and was described by solzhenitsyn as the chief artistic design of my life. Aleksandr solzhenitsyn was a russian novelist, historian, and winner of the 1970 nobel prize in literature. August 1914, historical novel by aleksandr solzhenitsyn, published as avgust chetyrnadtsatogo in paris in 1971. Each volume concentrates on a historical turning point, or knot, as the wheel rolls on.
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