March 1917: The Red Wheel, Node III, Book 3 is the third installment in Node III of Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn’s masterpiece series, The Red Wheel. The third node tells the story of the Russian Revolution itself, recounting these events day-by-day in the form of a historical novel. Book 3 is set during March 16–22, 1917 and depicts the spread of the revolution from Petrograd toward Moscow and the provinces.
In March 1917, Book 3, the forces of revolutionary disintegration advance from Petrograd all the way to the front lines of World War I, presaging Russia’s collapse. VoegelinView calls this tome “a magisterial depiction of the long, slow collapse of the Tsarist regime in which everybody gets a voice, but nobody feels that he or she can prevent the worst of it. Eerily prescient for the binary confusions of the present.”
The new paperback edition is available for purchase on the Notre Dame Press website.
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (1918–2008), Nobel Prize laureate in literature, was a Soviet political prisoner from 1945 to 1953. His story One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich (1962) made him famous, and The Gulag Archipelago (1973) further unmasked Communism and played a critical role in its eventual defeat. Solzhenitsyn was exiled to the West in 1974. He ultimately published dozens of plays, poems, novels, and works of history, nonfiction, and memoir, including In the First Circle, Cancer Ward, The Red Wheel epic, The Oak and the Calf, Between Two Millstones, Book 1 (University of Notre Dame Press, 2018), and Between Two Millstones, Book 2 (University of Notre Dame Press 2020).
Marian Schwartz is a prizewinning translator of classic and contemporary Russian literature, including works by Leo Tolstoy, Nina Berberova, Olga Slavnikova, and Leonid Yuzefovich.
Learn More:
Watch:
• Book Trailer: MARCH 1917: THE RED WHEEL, NODE III, BOOK 3
Read:
• An Excerpt from “March 1917: The Red Wheel, Node III, Book 3” by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
• “What Solzhenitsyn Understood” Featured in “The New York Review of Books”
• THE RED WHEEL virtual map