Volume 19, Number 5 · October 5, 1972
In Dubious Battle
By Philip Rahv
August 1914
by Alexander Solzhenitsyn, translated by Michael Glenny
Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 622 pp., $10.00
Although this is a long novel, it is only the first volume of a work of many parts. In his brief Foreword the author tells us that the whole work 'may take as long as twenty years' to write and that he probably 'will not live to finish it.' We are obviously dealing here with an extremely ambitious project—an account in epical novelistic form of the events, including the October revolution and its aftermath, that have shaped Russia's destiny in the twentieth century.
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