Boris Kustodiev, The Bolshevik, 1920, Oil on canvas, The State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow. The turn of the wheel Purchase this and other timeless New Criterion essays in our hard-copy reprint series. With the publication of the first book of April 1917, we have arrived at the fourth and final “node” of Solzhenitsyn’s literary and historical masterwork The Red Wheel.1 The four books of March 1917 are now behind us.