November 1916 Photography In the first years of

In the first years of the twentieth century

toward the barbed wire and machine guns at the German front lines

tall and proud

and puts them face-to-face with the characters who made a lasting impact on the world

November 1916 Photography In the first years ofDescription by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Paperback The month of November 1916 in Russia was outwardly quietthe proverbial calm before the stormbut beneath the placid surface, society seethed fiercely. In Petrograd, as St. Petersburg was then known, luxury store windows are still brightly lit; the Duma debates the monarchy, the course of war, and clashing paths to reform; the workers in the miserable munitions factories veer toward sedition. At the front,