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Author |
: Chester S. L. Dunning |
Publisher |
: Penn State Press |
Total Pages |
: 682 |
Release |
: 2010-11-01 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0271043717 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780271043715 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (17 Downloads) |
Synopsis Russia's First Civil War by : Chester S. L. Dunning
He shows that serfs did not actively participate in the civil war and that the abolition of serfdom was never a rebel goal. Instead, most rebels were petty gentry, professional soldiers, townsmen, and cossacks who were united in fierce opposition to tsars they believed to be illegitimate usurpers.".
Author |
: Chester S. L. Dunning |
Publisher |
: Penn State Press |
Total Pages |
: 356 |
Release |
: 2010-11-01 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0271045132 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780271045139 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (32 Downloads) |
Synopsis Short History of Russia's First Civil War by : Chester S. L. Dunning
This book is the first major post-Marxist reassessment of the Time of Troubles.
Author |
: Chester S.L. Dunning |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 0 |
Release |
: 2022 |
ISBN-10 |
: OCLC:1351211299 |
ISBN-13 |
: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (99 Downloads) |
Synopsis Russia's First Civil War by : Chester S.L. Dunning
Author |
: Donald J. Raleigh |
Publisher |
: Princeton University Press |
Total Pages |
: 459 |
Release |
: 2021-05-11 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781400843749 |
ISBN-13 |
: 140084374X |
Rating |
: 4/5 (49 Downloads) |
Synopsis Experiencing Russia's Civil War by : Donald J. Raleigh
This book is the only comprehensive history of the total experience of the Russian Civil War. Focusing on the key Volga city of Saratov and the surrounding region, Donald Raleigh is the first historian to fully show how the experience of civil war embedded itself into both the people's and the state's outlook and behavior. He demonstrates how and why the programs and ideals that had propelled the Bolsheviks into power were so quickly lost and the repressive Soviet party-state was born. Experiencing Russia's Civil War is based on exhaustive use of previously classified local and central archives. It is also bold and ambitious in its breadth of thematic coverage, dealing with all aspects of the war experience from institutional evolution and demographics to survival strategies. Complicating our understanding of this formative period, Raleigh provides compelling evidence that many features of the Soviet system that we associate with the Stalin era were already adumbrated and practiced by the early 1920s, as Bolshevism became closed to real alternatives. Raleigh interprets this as the consequence of a complex dynamic shaped by Russia's political tradition and culture, Bolshevik ideology, and dire political, economic, and military crises starting with World War I and strongly reinforced by the indelible, mythologized experience of survival in the Civil War. Fluidly written, replete with new information, and always engaged with important questions, this is history finely wrought.
Author |
: Laura Engelstein |
Publisher |
: Oxford University Press |
Total Pages |
: 866 |
Release |
: 2018 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780199794218 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0199794219 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (18 Downloads) |
Synopsis Russia in Flames by : Laura Engelstein
Laura Engelstein, one of the greatest scholars of Russian history, has written a searing and defining account of the Russian Revolution, the fall of the old order, and the creation of the Soviet state.
Author |
: Jon Smele |
Publisher |
: Oxford University Press |
Total Pages |
: 460 |
Release |
: 2015 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780190233044 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0190233044 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (44 Downloads) |
Synopsis The "Russian" Civil Wars, 1916-1926 by : Jon Smele
"This volume offers a comprehensive and original analysis and reconceptualisation of the compendium of struggles that wracked the collapsing Tsarist empire and the emergent USSR, profoundly affecting the history of the twentieth century. The reverberations of those decade-long wars echo to the present day--not despite, but because of the collapse of the Soviet Union, which re-opened many old wounds, from the Baltic to the Caucasus. Contemporary memorialising and 'de-memorialising' of these wars, therefore form part of the book's focus, but at its heart lie the struggles between various Russian political and military forces which sought to inherit and preserve, or even expand, the territory of the tsars, overlain with examinations of the attempts of many non-Russian national and religious groups to divide the former empire. The reasons why some of the latter were successful (Poland and Finland, for example), while others (Ukraine, Georgia and the Muslim Basmachi) were not, are as much the author's concern as are explanations as to why the chief victors of the 'Russian' Civil Wars were the Bolsheviks. Tellingly, the work begins and ends with battles in Central Asia--a theatre of the 'Russian' Civil Wars that was closer to Mumbai than it was to Moscow"--Publisher description.
Author |
: Jonathan D. Smele |
Publisher |
: Rowman & Littlefield |
Total Pages |
: 1471 |
Release |
: 2015-11-19 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781442252813 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1442252812 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (13 Downloads) |
Synopsis Historical Dictionary of the Russian Civil Wars, 1916-1926 by : Jonathan D. Smele
This book is a detailed reference of the twentieth century struggles that were waged across and beyond the decaying Russian Empire at the end of the First World War, as tsarism and democratic alternatives to it collapsed and the world’s first Communist state, the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, was born. At the same time, it is a necessary corrective to studies that have viewed events of the time as a unitary “Russian Civil War” that sprang from the Russian Revolution of 1917. Instead, it contributes to the ongoing process of integrating the civil wars into a “continuum of crises” that wracked the Russian Empire and its would-be successor states across a prolonged period. The Historical Dictionary of the Russian Civil Wars, 1916-1926 covers the history of this period through a chronology, an introductory essay, appendixes, and an extensive bibliography. The dictionary section has almost 2,000 cross-referenced entries on individuals, political and governmental institutions and political parties, and military formations and concepts, as well as religion, art, film, propaganda, uniforms, and weaponry. This book is an excellent access point for students, researchers, and anyone wanting to know more about the Russian Civil War.
Author |
: Damien Wright |
Publisher |
: Helion and Company |
Total Pages |
: 578 |
Release |
: 2017-07-27 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781913118112 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1913118118 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (12 Downloads) |
Synopsis Churchill's Secret War With Lenin by : Damien Wright
An account of the little-known involvement of Royal Marines as they engaged the new Bolsheviks immediately after the Russian Revolution. After three years of great loss and suffering on the Eastern Front, Imperial Russia was in crisis and on the verge of revolution. In November 1917, Lenin’s Bolsheviks (later known as “Soviets”) seized power, signed a peace treaty with the Central Powers and brutally murdered Tsar Nicholas (British King George’s first cousin) and his children so there could be no return to the old order. As Russia fractured into loyalist “White” and revolutionary “Red” factions, the British government became increasingly drawn into the escalating Russian Civil War after hundreds of thousands of German troops transferred from the Eastern Front to France were used in the 1918 “Spring Offensive” which threatened Paris. What began with the landing of a small number of Royal Marines at Murmansk in March 1918 to protect Allied-donated war stores quickly escalated with the British government actively pursuing an undeclared war against the Bolsheviks on several fronts in support of British trained and equipped “White Russian” Allies. At the height of British military intervention in mid-1919, British troops were fighting the Soviets far into the Russian interior in the Baltic, North Russia, Siberia, Caspian and Crimea simultaneously. The full range of weapons in the British arsenal were deployed including the most modern aircraft, tanks and even poison gas. British forces were also drawn into peripheral conflicts against “White” Finnish troops in North Russia and the German “Iron Division” in the Baltic. It remains a little-known fact that the last British troops killed by the German Army in the First World War were killed in the Baltic in late 1919, nor that the last Canadian and Australian soldiers to die in the First World War suffered their fate in North Russia in 1919 many months after the Armistice. Despite the award of five Victoria Crosses (including one posthumous) and the loss of hundreds of British and Commonwealth soldiers, sailors and airmen, most of whom remain buried in Russia, the campaign remains virtually unknown in Britain today. After withdrawal of all British forces in mid-1920, the British government attempted to cover up its military involvement in Russia by classifying all official documents. By the time files relating to the campaign were quietly released decades later there was little public interest. Few people in Britain today know that their nation ever fought a war against the Soviet Union. The culmination of more than 15 years of painstaking and exhaustive research with access to many previously classified official documents, unpublished diaries, manuscripts and personal accounts, author Damien Wright has written the first comprehensive campaign history of British and Commonwealth military intervention in the Russian Civil War 1918-20. “Allied intervention in the Russian Civil War remains forgotten. Wright’s book addresses that oversight, interspersing the broader story with personal accounts of participants.” —Military History Magazine
Author |
: W. Bruce Lincoln |
Publisher |
: Da Capo Press |
Total Pages |
: 640 |
Release |
: 1999-05-07 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0306809095 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780306809095 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (95 Downloads) |
Synopsis Red Victory by : W. Bruce Lincoln
Shortly after withdrawing from World War I, Russia descended into a bitter civil war unprecedented for its savagery: epidemics, battles, mass executions, forced labor, and famine claimed millions of lives. From 1918 to 1921, through great cities and tiny villages, across untouched forests and vast frozen wasteland, the Bolshevik "Reds" fought the anti-Communist Whites and their Allies (fourteen foreign countries contributed weapons, money, and troops—including 20,000 American soldiers). This landmark history re-creates the epic conflict that transformed Russia from the Empire of the Tsars into the Empire of the Commissars, while never losing sight of the horrifying human cost.
Author |
: Marlene Laruelle |
Publisher |
: Bloomsbury Publishing |
Total Pages |
: 169 |
Release |
: 2020-11-12 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781350149984 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1350149985 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (84 Downloads) |
Synopsis Memory Politics and the Russian Civil War by : Marlene Laruelle
In examining the re-emergence of Russia's White Movement, Memory Politics and the Russian Civil War gets to the heart of the rich 20th-century memory debates going on in Putin's Russia today. The Kremlin has been giving preference to a Soviet-lite nostalgia that denounces the 1917 Bolshevik revolution but celebrates the birth of a powerful Soviet Union able to bring the country to the forefront of the international scene after the victory in World War II. Yet in parallel, another historical narrative has gradually consolidated on the Russian public scene, one that favours the opposite camp, namely the White movement and the pro-tsarist groups defeated in the early 1920s. This book offers the first comprehensive exploration of this 'White Revenge', looking at the different actors who promote a White and pro-Romanov rehabilitation agenda in the political, ideological and cultural arenas and what this historical agenda might mean for Russia, both today and tomorrow.