Описание: 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. Indeed, 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.
Автор: Smele, Jonathan Название: Russian Revolution and Civil War ISBN: 0826456189 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780826456182 Издательство: Continuum Цена: 24750.00 р. Наличие на складе: Поставка под заказ.
Описание: This critically annotated bibliography has 6000 main entries - books, pamphlets, articles - in all the major West European languages, relating to the Russian Revolution and Civil War of 1917 to 1921. Several thousand further references and citations are included in the annotations. The book also has extensive cross-references and an author index. The comprehensive nature of this work, includes not only English-language items, but those in other West European languages. The broad geographical focus covers not only the political events in Russia and its capitals but also the separate revolutionary experiences of the non-Russian peoples of the former empire.
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