November 1916

November 1916Description 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,

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and its triumphant restoration and expansion

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highly acclaimed “Regular Army” division

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and by mid-1917 the first wave of the American Expeditionary Force arrives in Europe

trench warfare did not win the war for one side or lose it for the other

with millions dead and no imaginable end to the conflict