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Red victory : a history of the Russian Civil War / W. Bruce Lincoln.

Lincoln, W. Bruce. (Author).

Summary:

A chronicle of the Russian Civil War, from 1918 to 1921.

Record details

ISBN: 0671631667
ISBN: 9780671631666
Physical Description: 637 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, color maps ; 24 cm
Publisher: New York : Simon and Schuster, [1989]
Copyright: ©1989

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Formatted Contents Note:

Pt. 1. 1918: Prologue -- The hungry spring -- The fighting begins -- "The expropriation of the expropriators" -- First days of terror -- The allies intervene -- pt. 2. 1919: Denikin and the Cossacks -- Siberia's supreme ruler -- The Petrograd front -- The Ukraine in ferment -- In the red heart of Russia -- pt. 3. 1920: The struggle to survive -- "Give us Warsaw!" -- The end of the Whites -- Victory's bitter fruit -- The Kronstadt uprising -- Epilogue: The revolution consumes its makers.