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An edition of Origins of the Russian Civil War (1995)

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Concentrating particularly on the months from February 1917 to November 1918, this major contribution to the distinguished Origins of Modern Wars series explores the origins and nature of the Civil War in Russia, against the background of a country in the turmoil of revolution and anarchy.

Conventionally, when writing about these events, historians have tended to focus on the struggle between the Bolshevik Reds, representing the new order, and the White generals, representing the old world. Geoffrey Swain challenges that oversimple view of the conflict, and reveals how complex were the motives of the groups who precipitated it.

Rather than a straightforward line-up of revolutionaries and counter-revolutionaries, he shows how the Russian Civil War in fact began as an internecine struggle between the Bolsheviks and their fellow socialists, the 'Green' Socialist Revolutionaries.

By the end of 1918, this struggle had been subsumed within the wider conflict of Reds and Whites; but as that ran its course, with the accelerating repulse of the miscellaneous White forces, the fighting between the Greens and the Bolsheviks broke out again, and was only ultimately ended with the trial of the Socialist Revolutionaries in 1922.

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The Origins of the Russian Civil War
Feb 05, 2015, Routledge
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Origins of the Russian Civil War
2013, Routledge
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Origins of the Russian Civil War
2013, Taylor & Francis Group
in English
Cover of: Origins of the Russian Civil War
Origins of the Russian Civil War
2013, Taylor & Francis Group
in English
Cover of: Origins of the Russian Civil War
Origins of the Russian Civil War
2013, Taylor & Francis Group
in English
Cover of: Origins of the Russian Civil War
Origins of the Russian Civil War
2013, Taylor & Francis Group
in English
Cover of: The origins of the Russian Civil War
The origins of the Russian Civil War
1996, Longman, Longman Publishing Group
in English
Cover of: Origins of the Russian Civil War
Origins of the Russian Civil War
1995, Longman, Longman Publishing Group
in English

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London
Series
Origins of modern wars

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Dewey Decimal Class
947.0841
Library of Congress
DK265 .S9 1996, DK265.S9 1996

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Pagination
xiv,296p. ;
Number of pages
296

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Open Library
OL22363886M
Internet Archive
originsofrussian0000swai
ISBN 10
0582059674
LCCN
95013287
OCLC/WorldCat
32237300
Library Thing
1671769
Goodreads
4647102

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