num_pages: 857
description: Expanded by Solzhenitsyn to almost twice the length of the original edition, this novel reconstructs the assassination of tsarist Prime Minister Pyotr Stolupin and the outbreak of the First World War
language: English
title: August 1914
titlecomplete: August 1914 (Krasnoe Koleso, 1)
characters: Colonel Vorotyntsev, Vladimir Lenin
genres: 20th Century, Literature, Classics, World War I, Russian Literature, Russia, War, Historical Fiction, Fiction, Russian History
ratings_count: 2619
places: Battle of Tannenberg in East Prussia
series: The Red Wheel
publisher: Farrar Straus & Giroux