Krasnoe koleso. Uzel 4: Aprel Semnadtsatogo. (ePub)

"Pascha (Easter) 1917. The meeting of Lenin at the Finland Station. Sevastopol miracle of Kolchak. The success of public speeches of Kerenskiy. A lot of episodes of narodopravstva in the army and in the rear. April 20, Lenin organizes the first Bolshevik trial of strength.
Shooting in the streets. Slogans: Away Milyukova!, Away the Provisional Government!
On the morning of April 21 - a gust defenseless volunteers from the intelligentsia to the streets to defend the power of the Red Guards, and those fired. The wounded, killed, noisy arguments and fights in the streets. Anxiety negotiations members of the Executive Committee and the Provisional Government - how to extinguish the conflict, but it does not subside the day.
Unexpected resistance to the Bolsheviks in Petrograd educated public has rearranged the plans of Lenin's put aside the civil war!"


Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn ( 11 December 1918 - 3 August 2008) was a Russian writer, dissident and activist. He helped to raise global awareness of the Gulag and the Soviet Union's forced labor camp system. While his writings were often suppressed, he wrote several books most notably The Gulag Archipelago and One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich, two of his best-known works. For the ethical force with which he has pursued the indispensable traditions of Russian literature,Solzhenitsyn was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1970. He was expelled from the Soviet Union in 1974 but returned to Russia in 1994 after the Soviet system had collapsed.