num_pages: 384
description: The central place in Alexei Tolstoy's work is held by his books about the events of the Great October Revolution and the Civil War. His Ordeal (1919-1941) is a book about the Russian people as they forge their way to a new life, about the Russian intelligentsia which, as a result of a long "ordeal", found its place in society. Tolstoy himself wrote of the plan behind his "It's time to begin studying the Revolution, it's time for the artist to become a historian and a thinker... I not only acknowledge the Revolution - with such acknowledgement alone it would not be possible even to write a novel - I love its dark majesty, its world-wide scope. And that is the task of my novel - to create this majesty, this scope in all its complexity.
language: English
title: The Sisters
titlecomplete: The Sisters (The Ordeal, #1)
genres: Classics, Historical, Russia, Novels, Russian Literature, Historical Fiction, Literature, Fiction
ratings_count: 501
series: Хождение по мукам
publisher: Univ Pr of the Pacific