An anti-Bolshevik alternative : the White movement and the Civil War in the Russian north / Liudmila Novikova ; translated by Seth Bernstein.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Novikova, Li︠u︡dmila (Li︠u︡dmila Gennadʹevna), author.

Contributor:

Bernstein, Seth, translator.

Standardized Title:

Provin�t�sial�na�i�a "kontrrevol�i�u�t�si�i�a". English

Language:

English

Russian

Subjects (All):

Politics and government.

History.

Arkhangelʹskai︠a︡ gubernii︠a︡ (R.S.F.S.R.)--Politics and government--20th century.

Arkhangelʹskai︠a︡ gubernii︠a︡ (R.S.F.S.R.).

Soviet Union--History--Revolution, 1917-1921--Protest movements--Russia (Federation)--Arkhangelʹskai͡a gubernii͡a (R.S.F.S.R.).

Soviet Union.

Russia (Territory under White armies, 1918-1920)--History.

Russia (Territory under White armies, 1918-1920).

Russia (Territory under White armies, 1918-1920)--Politics and government.

Russia, Northern--History--Revolution, 1917-1921.

Russia, Northern.

Northern Russia.

Protest movements.

Russia (Federation)--Arkhangelʹskai︠a︡ gubernii︠a︡.

Russia--Territory under White armies, 1918-1920.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

xvi, 324 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Madison, Wisconsin : The University of Wisconsin Press, [2018]

Summary:

The traditional narrative of the Russian Civil War is one of revolution against counterrevolution, Bolshevik Reds against Tsarist Whites. Liudmila Novikova convincingly demonstrates, however, that the struggle was not between a Communist future and a Tsarist past; instead, it was a bloody fight among diverse factions of a modernizing postrevolutionary state. Focusing on the sparsely populated Arkhangelsk region in Northern Russia, she shows that the anti-Bolshevik government there, which held out from 1918 to early 1920, was a revolutionary alternative bolstered by broad popular support. Novikova draws on declassified archives and sources in both Russia and the West to reveal the White movement in the North as a complex social and political phenomenon with a distinct regional context. She documents the politics of the Northern Government and its relations with the British and American forces who had occupied the ports of Murmansk and Arkhangelsk at the end of World War I. As the civil war continued, the increasing involvement of the local population transformed the conflict into a ferocious "people's war" until remaining White forces under General Evgenii Miller evacuated the region in February 1920.

Contents:

1 The Arkhangelsk North at the Beginning of the Twentieth Century p. 10

2 The Revolutions of 1917 in the North and the Birth of the Anti-Bolshevik Movement p. 35

3 The Government of the Northern Region p. 66

4 The Allied Intervention in the North of Russia p. 101

5 The Politics of the Northern Government p. 122

6 The White Movement and the People's War p. 155

7 The Fall of the White North and the Sovietization of Arkhangelsk Province p. 188.

Notes:

Originally published as Provintsial'naia "kontrrevoliutsiia": Beloe dvizhenie i Grazhdanskaia voina na russkom Severe, 1917-1920, �2011 by L.G. Novikova and Novoe Literaturnoe Obozrenie, Moscow.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 291-313) and index.

ISBN:

9780299317409

0299317404

OCLC:

1006528910