NOVEMBER 1916: A NOVEL

u003cpu003eu003cbu003eIn time for the centenary of the beginning of the Russian Revolution, a new edition of the Russian Nobelist's major worku003c/bu003eu003cbru003eu003cbru003eThe month of November 1916 in Russia was outwardly quiet—the proverbial calm before the storm—but beneath the placid surface, society seethed fiercely.u003cbru003e In Petrograd, as St. Petersburg was then known, luxury-store windows are still brightly lit; the Duma debates the monarchy, the course of war, and clashing paths to reform; the workers in the miserable munitions factories veer toward sedition.u003cbru003e At the front, all is stalemate, while in the countryside sullen anxiety among hard-pressed farmers is rapidly replacing patriotism.u003cbru003e In Zurich, Lenin, with the smallest of all revolutionary groups, plots his sinister logistical miracle.u003cbru003e With masterly and moving empathy, through the eyes of both historical and fictional protagonists, Solzhenitsyn unforgettably transports us to that time and place—the last of pre-Soviet Russia. u003ciu003eu003cbru003e November 1916u003c/iu003e is the second volume in Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn's multipart work, u003ciu003eThe Red Wheelu003c/iu003e. This volume concentrates on a historical turning point, or "knot," as the wheel rolls inexorably toward revolution.u003c/pu003e