The Red Wheel is Solzhenitsyn's magnum opus about the Russian Revolution. Solzhenitsyn tells this story in the form of a meticulously researched historical novel, supplemented by newspaper headlines of the day, fragments of street action, cinematic screenplay, and historical overview. The first two nodes - August 1914 and November 1916 - focus on Russia's crises and recovery, on revolutionary terrorism and its suppression, on the missed opportunity...