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Book, 1998
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Book, 1998
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The second in the Russian Nobel Laureate's four-volume series The Red Wheel, a Tolstoy-inspired and Tolstoy-sized novel of the months just before the Revolution. He portrays Petrograd luxury stores with windows brightly lit despite World War I; Duma debates about the monarchy, the course of the war, and the clashing paths to reform; and the increasing radicalization of workers in the munitions factories. He appends identifications of characters. Translated from Krasnoe koleso. Uzel II: Oktyabr shestnadtsatogo published by Voyennoye izdatelstvo, Moscow, in 1990. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or. A towering figure of world literature presents a intensely felt and panoramic look at the world of Imperial Russia in the days just before the cataclysmic Revolution that swept a world away forever. 12,500 first printing. Presents a panoramic look at the world of Imperial Russia in the days just before the cataclysmic Revolution that swept a world away forever
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