White terror : Cossack warlords of the Trans-Siberian / Jamie Bisher.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bisher, Jamie, 1956-

Contributor:

Sabin W. Colton, Jr., Memorial Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Siberia (Russia)--History--Revolution, 1917-1921--Protest movements.

Siberia (Russia).

Russian Far East (Russia)--History--1917-1921.

Russian Far East (Russia).

Physical Description:

xix, 452 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Routledge, 2005.

Contents:

1 Prelude to terror: Creation - November 1917 1

Battleground of the Gods 1

Frontier Siberia 8

Russia's Asian neighbors and the Iron Road 13

Mongolia and the Tournament of Shadows 19

Ensign Grigorii Mikhailovich Semenov 23

Semenov in the Great War 26

Commissar Semenov 32

Bolshevik coups across Siberia 37

2 Revolution and Red Terror: November 1917-May 1918 40

Revolutionary days in Dauria and Harbin 40

Semenov's eight-man Counterrevolution 42

First offensive 46

Recruiting Mongols 48

Red Takeover and Terror 49

Harbin - the Paris and Gomorrah of the Orient 53

Strategic ambitions and the Austro-German threat 56

Bullets, guns and money 59

Japanese advisors, internationalists and the April offensive 60

Kolchak and Semenov 66

Lazo's May Counteroffensive and the Kolchak-Semenov meeting 70

3 Counterrevolution: May-October 1918 75

Czechoslovakian saviors 75

July defeat and new foreign assistance 77

Battles for Lake Baikal 81

Anarchist locusts descend upon Chita 84

Semenov's third offensive: the conquest of Transbaikalia 85

Czech liberation - or occupation? - of Vladivostok and Nikolsk-Ussuriisk 90

Internationalists and interventionists 91

Russian Railway Service Corps 94

Ataman Kalmykov 96

Allied liberation of Khabarovsk 98

Blagoveshchensk - the last Red Bastion 101

4 The White Terror begins: October 1918-December 1918 104

Semenov's realm 104

Chita 106

Semenov's army 109

Provisional Siberian Government and the 5th Corps 113

Semenov, Incorproated 115

Reactionary backlash 116

Kalmykov's Khabarovsk 118

White nightmare in Blagoveshchensk 120

Japanese Siberia 122

Death trains 125

The Ataman versus the Supreme Ruler 127

Gloomy Omsk at its peak 131

Attempt on the Ataman's life 132

5 Rodomontade and girls with diamonds: January-April 1919 134

Likin, diamond-studded mistresses and Jewish Cossacks 134

Rodomontade, martinets and sadists 138

Crime, punishment and the Shumov-Natsvalov affair 140

White hell in Kalmykov's wild, wild east 143

Allies and the atamans 146

Serbian mercenaries and Slavic legions 151

Foreign voluntary organizations 152

Spring and White victory in the air 153

Inter-Allied Railway Agreement 155

6 White Terror on the Magistral: May-September 1919 157

War on the rails 157

Semenov's armored train division 159

Strategic railway resources 162

Reign of terror on the rails 163

Red partisans of Transbaikalia 166

Face-off at Verkhne-Udinsk 170

Semenov's golden days in Chita 174

OMO interference on the rails 177

Trouble on the Chinese Eastern 180

Refugees 182

Killing fields 183

Dreams of a Pan-Mongolian empire 188

7 The White collapse begins: Summer 1919-January 1920 192

A black summer for Siberian Whites 192

Partisan growth in the Russian Far East 194

Atamans' plot against the Americans 196

Battle of Khada-Bulak 199

The Ataman versus Lieutenant Ryan 201

The fall of Omsk 202

Gajda's plot against the Whites 203

Panic on the Trans-Siberian 205

Battle of Irkutsk 208

A treasonous White commander and murders on Baikal 213

8 Red onslaught: January-April 1920 216

New Year in White Siberia 216

Selenga River valley and Verkhne-Udinsk 219

Counter-counterrevolution in Vladivostok and Nikolsk 223

Semenov and the Americans 225

Kalmykov's Waterloo 230

White breakdown in Transbaikalia, Red liberation in Irkutsk 232

Firesales, strikes, mutinies, collaboration and a coup 238

9 White-Japanese resurgence, panic and disaster: April-December 1920 243

Massacre at Nikolaevsk and the Japanese offensive 243

Frontline Transbaikalia 249

The Hailar incident 251

Forging a Japanese-Mongol buffer state 255

Red panic, Lazo's fiery martyrdom and White panic 258

The fall of White Transbaikalia 261

10 Gotterdammerung: October 1920-November 1922 266

Ungern-Shternberg's liberation of Mongolia (October 1920-January 1921) 266

White Gotterdammerung in Mongolia (January-September 1921) 274

Ataman's exile and White Russia's last spasms (October 1920-November 1922) 282

11 Diaspora, Manchurian revival and legacy: June 1921 to the present day 286

White diaspora and ambush by New York lawyers (January 1921-June 1922) 286

Red dawn (1922-1930s) 292

Semenov in Dairen (1922-39) 295

Semenov, godfather of Manchukuo's Reactionary Whites (1939-45) 306

Appendix 1 The Magistral 314

Appendix 2 Cadre and Staff 317

Appendix 3 Proclamations of the Atamans 319

Proclamation of the Temporary Government of Transbaikal Territory, May 1918 319

Proclamation of Ataman Kalmykov in Grodekovo District, July 1918 319.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 402-440) and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Sabin W. Colton, Jr., Memorial Fund.

ISBN:

0714656909

OCLC:

55511509