by Alexei Tolstoy, Alexei Tolstoi
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 trilogy: "It's time to begin...
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