Collected works in 30 volumes. Volume 7-8. Red wheel. August of the 14th. Books 1-2

The seventh volume of the "collected works" A. Solzhenitsyn opens the historical epic in the four nodes "Red Wheel". Knot 1, "August of the fourteenth", consists of two books. Book One is dedicated to the Samson catastrophe - the environment and defeat of the Second Russian Army at the beginning of the First World War.
The eighth volume contains the end of August of the fourteenth - the first node of the historical epic "Red Wheel". It not only completes the show and analysis of the Samson catastrophe, but the artistic image of the reign of the last Emperor Nicholas the Second until the First World War is given and the figure of Prime Minister P. A. Stolypin, his labors, reform and tragic death are clearly represented