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March 1917 de Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

March 1917

Autor Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Traducere de Marian Schwartz
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 15 noi 2019

Ce se întâmplă cu fibra unei națiuni atunci când autoritatea se topește sub ochii mulțimii, iar cei chemați să conducă se dovedesc incapabili să stăpânească haosul? În March 1917, primul volum din cel de-al treilea „nod” al monumentalei serii The Red Wheel, descoperim nu doar o cronică istorică, ci o autopsie psihologică a unei prăbușiri iminente. Notăm cu interes felul în care Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn reușește să comprime destinul unui imperiu în doar câteva zile, între 8 și 12 martie, capturând momentul precis în care revoltele pentru pâine din Petrograd se transformă într-o mutinie care va schimba cursul istoriei mondiale. Putem afirma că forța narativă a lui Tolstoi combinată cu rigoarea documentară a unui istoric precum Rex A. Wade — autorul volumului The Russian Revolution, 1917 — prinde aici un glas propriu, unul marcat de experiența directă a suferinței sub regimul care s-a născut din acest haos. Spre deosebire de tonul mai așezat din August 1914 sau de tensiunea mocnită din November 1916: A Novel, acest volum are un ritm febril. Structura este una polifonică și experimentală: intercalarea scenariilor cinematografice și a titlurilor de presă autentice oferă cititorului senzația de martor ocular. Urmărim peste cincizeci de personaje, de la împăratul Nikolai al II-lea, izolat la cartierul general, până la soldații care își ucid ofițerii, totul organizat riguros pe zile, așa cum indică și cuprinsul care urmărește progresia implacabilă a săptămânii fatidice. Este o operă care, asemenea lucrării The Gulag Archipelago (Abridged Edition), caută să scoată la lumină adevărul istoric îngropat sub decenii de propagandă.

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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780268106850
ISBN-10: 0268106851
Pagini: 728
Dimensiuni: 161 x 240 x 47 mm
Greutate: 1.38 kg
Editura: University of Notre Dame Press

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Recomandăm această carte cititorilor care doresc să înțeleagă mecanismele intime ale unei revoluții, dincolo de datele seci ale manualelor. Veți câștiga o perspectivă unică asupra modului în care indecizia politică și furia socială pot dezintegra un stat în mai puțin de o săptămână. Este o lectură esențială pentru pasionații de istorie rusă și beletristică clasică, oferind o experiență imersivă într-un moment de cotitură al modernității.

Despre autor

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (1918–2008) a fost un romancier, istoric și filozof rus, laureat al Premiului Nobel pentru Literatură, a cărui viață a fost marcată de disidența împotriva regimului comunist. Fost căpitan în Armata Roșie, a petrecut opt ani în Gulag pentru criticarea lui Stalin, experiență ce a stat la baza capodoperelor sale One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich și The Gulag Archipelago (Abridged Edition). După expulzarea din URSS în 1974, s-a stabilit în Occident, unde a finalizat proiectul The Red Wheel, considerat de el însuși miza întregii sale cariere literare, o încercare de a explica rădăcinile catastrofei rusești din secolul XX.

Descriere scurtă

The Red Wheel is Nobel Prize-winner Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn's multivolume epic work about the Russian Revolution. He spent decades writing about just four of the most important periods, or nodes." This is the first time that the monumental March 1917--the third node--has been translated into English. It tells the story of the Russian Revolution itself, during which the Imperial government melts in the face of the mob, and the giants of the opposition also prove incapable of controlling the course of events.
The action of Book 2 (of four) of March 1917 is set during March 13-15, 1917, the Russian Revolution's turbulent second week. The revolution has already won inside the capital, Petrograd. News of the revolution flashes across all Russia through the telegraph system of the Ministry of Roads and Railways. But this is wartime, and the real power is with the army. At Emperor Nikolai II's order, the Supreme Command sends troops to suppress the revolution in Petrograd. Meanwhile, victory speeches ring out at Petrograd's Tauride Palace. Inside, two parallel power structures emerge: the Provisional Government and the Executive Committee of the Petrograd Soviet of Workers' and Soldiers' Deputies, which sends out its famous Order No. 1, presaging the destruction of the army. The troops sent to suppress the Petrograd revolution are halted by the army's own top commanders. The Emperor is detained and abdicates, and his ministers are jailed and sent to the Peter and Paul Fortress. This sweeping, historical novel is a must-read for Solzhenitsyn's many fans, as well as those interested in twentieth-century history, Russian history and literature, and military history.

Recenzii

"As the great Solzhenitsyn scholar Georges Nivat has written, Solzhenitsyn is the author of two great 'literary cathedrals,' The Gulag Archipelago and The Red Wheel. The first is the definitive exposé of ideological despotism and all of its murderous works. The Red Wheel is the definitive account of how the forces of revolutionary nihilism came to triumph in the first place. It is a sprawling and fascinating mix of philosophical and moral discernment, literary inventiveness, and historical insight that sometimes strains the novelistic form, but is also one of the great works of moral and political instruction of the twentieth century." —Daniel J. Mahoney, co-editor of The Solzhenitsyn Reader: New and Essential Writings
 

"The Red Wheel, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn’s epic of World War I and the Russian revolution, belongs to the Russian tradition of vast, densely plotted novels of love and war set during a time of social upheaval. An extended act of author-to-nation communication, this multivolume saga poses the question, 'Where did we go wrong?' and answers it in human and political terms, but with a mystical twist that is unlike anything else in Solzhenitsyn. This translation beautifully conveys the distinctive flavor of Solzhenitsyn’s prose, with its preternatural concreteness of description, moments of surreal estrangement, and meticulous detailing of the nuances of human relationships in the shadow of encroaching chaos. The novel’s reliable, unreliable, and even mendacious character voices, its streams-of-consciousness, and its experimental flourishes possess the same vividness and freshness as they do in Russian. Think Anna Karenina and Doctor Zhivago, with Dostoevsky’s Demons thrown in for good measure." —Richard Tempest, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
 
 

"There is no doubt that The Red Wheel is one of the masterpieces of world literature, made all the more precious by its relevance to the tragic era through which contemporary history has passed. Moreover, the impulse of revolutionary and apocalyptic violence associated with the age of ideology has still not ebbed. We remain confronted by the fragility of historical existence, in which it is possible for whole societies to choose death rather than life. To have the University of Notre Dame Press become the publisher of the greatest historical-literary analysis of the revolutionary upheaval is a signal development." —David Walsh, Catholic University of America
 

"In his ambitious multivolume work The Red Wheel (Krasnoe Koleso), Solzhenitsyn strove to give a partly historical and partly literary picture of the revolutionary year 1917. Several of these volumes have been translated into English, but the present volume appears in English for the first time. The translation is very well done and ought to give the reader a better understanding of the highly complex events that shook Russia exactly a century ago." —Richard Pipes, emeritus, Harvard University
 

“'Many readers know that Solzhenitsyn was unjustly imprisoned by the communist regime and wrote about the camps, which are the result of the [Russian] revolution, but few know that Solzhenitsyn in fact dedicated his life to studying the revolution itself, and its causes,' said Stephan Solzhenitsyn. 'You might say that he caught the last train of departing memory. He was able to interview some of the last living participants of those fateful days in 1917, and of the Russian civil war that followed.'" —The Guardian

"Histories tend to collapse events into a single narrative; Solzhenitsyn insists on plurality. He explodes the Russian Revolution back into myriad voices and parts, disarrayed and chaotic, detailed and tumultuous. . .  the book is as immersive as binge-worthy television, no little thanks to this excellent translation that renders its prose as masterful in English as it was in Russian. In March 1917, Solzhenitsyn attempts the impossible and succeeds, evoking a fully formed world through episodic narratives that insist on the prosaic integrity of every life, from tsars to peasants. What emerges is a rich history that’s truly greater than the sum of its parts." —Foreword Reviews

"March 1917, node III, gives a sketch of the events in St. Petersburg that culminated in the overthrow of the Tsar. Most striking in this segment is the ineptitude of Russia’s ruling class. Although a decent man, Tsar Nicholas was slow to make decisions, fearful of talented people, and incapable of resolving difficult issues. The ministers who exercised executive power were appointed by the Tsar and therefore lacked energy or ability. . . . Solzhenitsyn’s art allows readers to grasp one of the pivotal episodes in history." —James Pontuso, Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation Blog

"The latest Solzhenitsyn book to appear in English, March 1917, focuses on the great turning point of Russian, indeed world, history: the Russian Revolution. . . . Almost moment by moment, we follow historical and fictional characters from March 8 to March 11, 1917, as chaos unfolds. Although the Kadets think that history must fulfill a story known in advance, Solzhenitsyn shows us a mass of discrepant incidents that fit no coherent narrative." —The New Criterion
"The Red Wheel and The Gulag Archipelago have been called Solzhenitsyn’s two 'cathedrals.' You cannot fully understand the horrors of communism and the history of the 20th century without reading them." —New York Journal of Books
"[I]n the volume translated by Marian Schwartz, March 1917: The Red Wheel, Node III, Book I, the wheel turns. The Russian Revolution begins, and the chapters become shorter, the rhythm no longer adagio but staccato. Solzhenitsyn doesn’t much care about the literary modernism of Western Europe, but he does imitate the kinetic pace of 20th century cinema. . . . In The Red Wheel, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn produced a masterpiece, and proved himself a worthy companion of Dostoevsky and rival of Tolstoy." —Law and Liberty
"The February revolution, in Solzhenitsyn’s considered judgment, was a disaster of the first order and not a welcome, democratic eruption in a country ill-prepared for democracy. A reader of March 1917 (Node III of The Red Wheel . . .) would be hard put to quarrel with Solzhenitsyn’s judgment. As this great work of history and literature attests, February indeed was the root of all the evils to come and not a brief shining display of Russian democracy. . . . This action-packed account, beautifully translated by Marian Schwartz, tells the story of one moment in which the failure of good men to act made all the difference in the world." —National Review
 

Notă biografică

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (1918–2008) is widely acknowledged as one of the most important figures—and perhaps the most important writer—of the last century. A Soviet political prisoner from 1945 to 1953, he set himself firmly against the anti-human Soviet system, and all anti-human ideologies, from that time forward. His novel One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich (1962) made him famous, and The Gulag Archipelago, published to worldwide acclaim in 1973, further unmasked communism and played a critical role in its eventual defeat. Solzhenitsyn won the Nobel Prize in 1970 and was exiled to the West in 1974. He ultimately published dozens of plays, poems, novels, and works of history, nonfiction, and memoir, including Cancer Ward, In the First Circle, and The Oak and the Calf (a memoir that is continued in Between the Millstones). Few authors have so decisively shaped minds, hearts, and world events as did Solzhenitsyn.
 

Cuprins

1. 16 MARCH, Friday
2. 17 MARCH, Saturday
3. 18 MARCH, Sunday
4. 19 MARCH, Monday
5. 20 MARCH, Tuesday
6. 21 MARCH, Wednesday
7. 22 MARCH, Thursday