Evan Mawdsley

The Russian Civil War

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'The best book ever written on the Russian Civil War … a first-rate work of scholarly synthesis' — Robert McNeal
'a miracle of concision, clarity and completeness' — Michael Malancon
'abounds in controversial judgements, ably backed and well documented' — D.A. Longley
The Russian Civil War of 1917–1920, out of which the Soviet Union was born, was one of the most significant events of the twentieth century. The collapse of the Tsarist regime and the failure of the Kerensky Provisional Government nearly led to the complete disintegration of the Russian state. This book, however, is not simply the story of that collapse and the rebellion that accompanied it, but of the painful and costly reconstruction of Russian power under a Soviet regime. Evan Mawdsley's lucid account of this vast and complex subject explains in detail the power struggles and political manoeuvres of the war, providing a balanced analysis of why the Communists were victors. This edition includes illustrations, a new preface and an extensively updated bibliography.
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611 printed pages
Copyright owner
Bookwire
Original publication
2011
Publication year
2011
Publisher
Birlinn
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  • Sanzhar Zhautykovshared an impression8 years ago
    👍Worth reading

    Well written book. Easy to read language, covers all aspects of civil war in Russia. Useful to understand one holistic picture of what was happening during this period an on all fronts. Does not have the biases of Russian sources as written by British author.

    Definitely recommend to read.

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  • Sanzhar Zhautykovhas quoted8 years ago
    Another ephemeral pan-Turkic government, set up in Orenburg by intellectuals of the Alash-Orda party, was suppressed at about the same time. In any event, the Moslem population was fragmented. Nearly all the Kazakhs were nomads. In Turkestan the population was scattered among separate oases.
  • Sanzhar Zhautykovhas quoted8 years ago
    Tashkent had had another, smaller, front, to the northeast in Semirechie; the main town, Vernyi (Alma-Ata), was 500 miles from Tashkent, and Soviet power was threatened by the small Semirechie Cossack Host. The remains of Kolchak’s southern armies withdrew here, after a 350-mile desert march, when their Siberian line of retreat was cut in late 1919. In the following spring Soviet forces took the region; the White survivors fled over the border to China, where 12,000 were interned in terrible conditions. Dutov, the Orenburg ataman and one of the first to rise against Soviet power in 1917–1918, was killed there in February 1921.

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