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| publisher = [[YMCA Press]] |
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| release_date = [[1971]] |
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'''''August 1914''''' is a [[novel]] by Russian novelist [[Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn]] about [[Imperial Russia]]'s defeat |
'''''August 1914''''' is a [[novel]] by Russian novelist [[Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn]] about [[Imperial Russia]]'s defeat the battle of [[Battle of Tannenberg (1914)|Tannenberg]] in [[East Prussia]] (1914), an episode at arms known in Russian history as the ''Battle of the [[Masurian Lakes]]''. According to Sozhenitsyn's brief autobiography supplied by the author himself to the [[Nobel Prize]] committee, '''''August 1914''''' was finished by the late fall of 1970. |
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The novel is an unusual blend of fiction narrative and historiography pure and simple, and has given rise to extensive and often bitter controversy, both from the literary as well as from the historian's point of view. |
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The unprepared army's failures mirror those of the Tsarist regime. A famous, anthological episode in this earlier version of the novel is the passage narrating the state of mind and suicide of the Russian commander, general [[Samsonov]]. |
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In 1984 a new version of the novel, much expanded, was published, in a new English translation by H. T. Willetts. By this time Solzhenitsyn had been a resident of the [[USA]] for some years and was therefore able to publish chapters hitherto suppressed, as well as new parts written after extensive research at the library of the [[Hoover Institution]]. |
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These included chapters on [[Lenin]] which were also published separately as ''[[Lenin in Zurich]]''; several brilliant chapters dealing with the figure of P. A. [[Stolypin]], obviously very dear to the author, as well as with the background and personality of Stolypin's murderer, D. G. [[Bogrov]], and the suspected involvement of the [[Okhranka|Tsarist Secret Police]] in the Prime Minister's assassination. |
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At well over 800 pages, the novel constitutes just the beginning of the [[The Red Wheel|Red Wheel]] series, continued ten years later with ''[[November 1916]]''. |
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Revision as of 23:38, 10 September 2007
| Author | Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn |
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| Language | Russian |
| Series | The Red Wheel |
| Genre | Historical Novel |
| Publisher | YMCA Press |
Publication date | 1971; 1984 |
| Publication place | France |
| Media type | Print (Hardback) |
| Pages | 573 pp; 850+ pp (Second Version) |
August 1914 is a novel by Russian novelist Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn about Imperial Russia's defeat the battle of Tannenberg in East Prussia (1914), an episode at arms known in Russian history as the Battle of the Masurian Lakes. According to Sozhenitsyn's brief autobiography supplied by the author himself to the Nobel Prize committee, August 1914 was finished by the late fall of 1970.
The novel is an unusual blend of fiction narrative and historiography pure and simple, and has given rise to extensive and often bitter controversy, both from the literary as well as from the historian's point of view.
The unprepared army's failures mirror those of the Tsarist regime. A famous, anthological episode in this earlier version of the novel is the passage narrating the state of mind and suicide of the Russian commander, general Samsonov.
In 1984 a new version of the novel, much expanded, was published, in a new English translation by H. T. Willetts. By this time Solzhenitsyn had been a resident of the USA for some years and was therefore able to publish chapters hitherto suppressed, as well as new parts written after extensive research at the library of the Hoover Institution.
These included chapters on Lenin which were also published separately as Lenin in Zurich; several brilliant chapters dealing with the figure of P. A. Stolypin, obviously very dear to the author, as well as with the background and personality of Stolypin's murderer, D. G. Bogrov, and the suspected involvement of the Tsarist Secret Police in the Prime Minister's assassination.
At well over 800 pages, the novel constitutes just the beginning of the Red Wheel series, continued ten years later with November 1916.
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