Rostov In The Russian Civil War 1917 1920

Author : Brian Murphy
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 366 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2004-08-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9781134271283

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Rostov in the Russian Civil War, 1917-1920 by Brian Murphy Pdf

These documents were collected from the archives in Rostov-on-Don, and this book makes them available for the first time in print. Since becoming freely accessible Soviet archives have provided a rich source for understanding the hopes, fears and strivings of the Russians during the greatest crisis in their history. Both Reds and Whites realized Rostov's vital strategic importance, and the city changed hands six times between 1917 and 1920. These newly published personal stories fill out the social background to its complex mix of classes and nationalities. They convey the daily experience of life in the streets, and the perils faced by either side when changing fortunes forced them to escape across the River Don. Over the last century the slogans of the Revolution have become stale for us. But if we seek to understand the spirit of those years we must remember that these beliefs gave fresh hope to many individuals, presenting a cause for which they were prepared to endure great suffering, and even to sacrifice their lives. Perhaps the passionate enthusiasm of these revolutionaries may give us some insight into the psychology of young men and women who are called 'terrorists' today?

Author : Evan Mawdsley
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 412 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : History
ISBN : STANFORD:36105111038910

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The Russian Civil War by Evan Mawdsley Pdf

"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."--Page 4 of cover.

Author : Oleg Budnitskii
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 541 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2012-07-24
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780812208146

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Russian Jews Between the Reds and the Whites, 1917-1920 by Oleg Budnitskii Pdf

In the years following the Russian Revolution, a bitter civil war was waged between the Bolsheviks, with their Red Army of Workers and Peasants on the one side, and the various groups that constituted the anti-Bolshevik movement on the other. The major anti-Bolshevik force was the White Army, whose leadership consisted of former officers of the Russian imperial army. In the received—and simplified—version of this history, those Jews who were drawn into the political and military conflict were overwhelmingly affiliated with the Reds, while from the start, the Whites orchestrated campaigns of anti-Jewish violence, leading to the deaths of thousands of Jews in pogroms in the Ukraine and elsewhere. In Russian Jews Between the Reds and the Whites, 1917-1920, Oleg Budnitskii provides the first comprehensive historical account of the role of Jews in the Russian Civil War. According to Budnitskii, Jews were both victims and executioners, and while they were among the founders of the Soviet state, they also played an important role in the establishment of the anti-Bolshevik factions. He offers a far more nuanced picture of the policies of the White leadership toward the Jews than has been previously available, exploring such issues as the role of prominent Jewish politicians in the establishment of the White movement of southern Russia, the "Jewish Question" in the White ideology and its international aspects, and the attempts of the Russian Orthodox Church and White diplomacy to forestall the establishment of a Jewish state in Palestine. The relationship between the Jews and the Reds was no less complicated. Nearly all of the Jewish political parties severely disapproved of the Bolshevik coup, and the Red Army was hardly without sin when it came to pogroms against the Jews. Budnitskii offers a fresh assessment of the part played by Jews in the establishment of the Soviet state, of the turn in the policies of Jewish socialist parties after the first wave of mass pogroms and their efforts to attract Jews to the Red Army, of Bolshevik policies concerning the Jewish population, and of how these stances changed radically over the course of the Civil War.

Author : Peter Kenez
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 406 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 1977-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0520033469

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Civil War in South Russia, 1919-1920 by Peter Kenez Pdf

Author : Nik Cornish
Publisher : Casemate Publishers
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2012-07-19
Category : History
ISBN : 9781783038763

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The Russian Revolution by Nik Cornish Pdf

Often the drama of the October Revolution and the Bolshevik seizure of power overshadow the disastrous Russian-German war that preceded it and the extended, confusing, many-sided civil war between the Reds and the Whites that followed. But Nik Cornishs vivid photographic history gives equal coverage to each of these momentous events and shows how the Russian empire of the Romanovs was transformed into the Soviet dictatorship. Contemporary photographs show the leading characters in the drama Tsar Nicholas II, Kerensky, Lenin and Trotsky and other Bosheviks, and the White commanders Denikin, Kolchak, Wrangel and the rest. But they also record, in an unforgettable way, the ordinary people who were caught up in the surge of events civilian crowds on the city streets, peasant groups in the villages, the faces of common soldiers on all sides who fought on multiple fronts across Russia from Poland, the Baltic states and the White Sea to the Black Sea and Siberia. The scale of the conflict was remarkable, as was the intensity of the experience of those who took part and witnessed it, and this collection of historic photographs gives a poignant insight into the conditions of their time. It is a fascinating introduction to a period that saw a sea change in Russian history.

Author : Simon Pirani
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2008-03-03
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781134075508

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The Russian Revolution in Retreat, 1920–24 by Simon Pirani Pdf

The Russian revolution of 1917 was a defining event of the twentieth century, and its achievements and failures remain controversial in the twenty-first. This book focuses on the retreat from the revolution’s aims in 1920–24, after the civil war and at the start of the New Economic Policy – and specifically, on the turbulent relationship between the working class and the Communist Party in those years. It is based on extensive original research of the actions and reactions of the party leadership and ranks, of dissidents and members of other parties, and of trade union activists and ordinary factory workers. It discusses working-class collective action before, during and after the crisis of 1921, when the Bolsheviks were confronted by the revolt at the Kronshtadt naval base and other protest movements. This book argues that the working class was politically expropriated by the Bolshevik party, as democratic bodies such as soviets and factory committees were deprived of decision-making power; it examines how the new Soviet ruling class began to take shape. It shows how some worker activists concluded that the principles of 1917 had been betrayed, while others accepted a social contract, under which workers were assured of improvements in living standards in exchange for increased labour discipline and productivity, and a surrender of political power to the party.

Author : Jonathan Smele
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 646 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2006-06-15
Category : History
ISBN : 0826490670

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The Russian Revolution and Civil War 1917-1921 by Jonathan Smele Pdf

The Russian Revolution and Civil War in the years 1917 to 1921 is one of the most widely studied periods in history. This work offers a bibliographical guide to this crucial period of history, and includes key works in the major West European languages (French, German, Italian, Spanish, Dutch, Danish and others).

Author : Brian Murphy
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 223 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2004-08-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9781134271290

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Rostov in the Russian Civil War, 1917-1920 by Brian Murphy Pdf

The documents in this book were collected from the archives in Rostov-on-Don, and appear here for the first time in print, with commentary from the author.

Author : David Scott Foglesong
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 780 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Soviet Union
ISBN : UCAL:C3366355

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America's Secret War Against Bolshevism by David Scott Foglesong Pdf

Author : Rex A. Wade
Publisher : Greenwood
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015049983722

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The Bolshevik Revolution and Russian Civil War by Rex A. Wade Pdf

Examines the Bolshevik Revolution and the Russian Civil War through narrative history and analysis, biographies, and primary documents; also includes a glossary, an annotated bibliography, and a time line.

Author : Peter Kenez
Publisher : New Academia Publishing/ The Spring
Page : 418 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015064881322

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Red Advance, White Defeat by Peter Kenez Pdf

Second edition with an updated bibliography. This volume is the sequel to RED ATTACK, WHITE RESISTANCE by Peter Kenez. "The republication of Professor Kenez's classic volumes is to be warmly welcomed. Based on copious archival research and a close reading of published memoirs and mixing careful narrative with judicious analysis, they still provide the definitive history of the anti-Bolshevik movement in South Russia. Their original publication provided an inspiration for a generation of scholars of the Russian Civil War; the new edition will certainly inspire another. The armchair historian too, as well as all those interested in the fate of contemporary Russia, will find much to admire and much to ponder upon in this well told tale of one of the most bloody and tragic episodes in recent European history." - Jonathan D. Smele, University of London. "The profession will be delighted to learn that this classic study of the Russian Civil War (1917-21) on its most crucial battleground is again available. Kenez's work was the first in any language to cut through the rhetoric of partisan memory and historiography in order to present a complicated and balanced view of both sides. While demythologizing Soviet historical explanations, Kenez is especially keen in displaying the enormous variety of the "White," or anti-Communist, movement and analyzing the causes of its defeat." - Richard Stites, Georgetown University.

Author : Orlando Figes
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 440 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015018636665

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Peasant Russia, Civil War by Orlando Figes Pdf

Based upon research from various Soviet archives, this work reconstructs the revolutionary experience of the peasantry in the crucial Volga region. The book examines the peasantry's relations with the Reds and the Whites in depth and illustrates the effects of the civil war.

Author : Anatol Shmelev
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2021
Category : Electronic books
ISBN : 0817924280

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In the Wake of Empire by Anatol Shmelev Pdf

"An examination of Russia's place in international affairs in the years after the fall of the Russian Empire, when the anti-Bolshevik "Whites" fought to maintain a "Great, United Russia.""--

Author : Jonathan D. Smele
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 1471 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2015-11-19
Category : History
ISBN : 9781442252813

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Historical Dictionary of the Russian Civil Wars, 1916-1926 by Jonathan D. Smele Pdf

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 : Evan Mawdsley
Publisher : Birlinn
Page : 510 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2011-07-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9780857901231

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The Russian Civil War by Evan Mawdsley Pdf

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. '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