The best historians and novelists--and Solzhenitsyn was first and foremost a novelist--narrate history through the eyes and ears of the participants who don't know the outcome of the events they are observing and participating in. In March 1917 , Solzhenitsyn presents events through the characters' perspectives and perceptions at the time, not in hindsight or years afterward. -- Asian Review of Books
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The best historians and novelists--and Solzhenitsyn was first and foremost a novelist--narrate history through the eyes and ears of the participants who don't know the outcome of the events they are observing and participating in. In March 1917 , Solzhenitsyn presents events through the characters' perspectives and perceptions at the time, not in hindsight or years afterward. -- Asian Review of Books
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