The "Russian" Civil wars, 1916-1926 : ten years that shook the world / Jonathan D. Smele.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Smele, Jon, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Civil war--Soviet Union--History.

Civil war.

Social conflict--Soviet Union--History.

Social conflict.

Ethnic conflict--Soviet Union--History.

Ethnic conflict.

Soviet Union--History--Revolution, 1917-1921.

Soviet Union.

Soviet Union--History--1917-1936.

Soviet Union--History, Military.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (460 p.)

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2016.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This volume offers a comprehensive and original analysis and reconceptualization of the compendium of struggles that wracked the collapsing tsarist empire and the emergent USSR over a decade and that was to have a profound impact upon the history of the twentieth century.

Contents:

Cover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Notes for the Reader; Acknowledgements; Glossary, Acronyms, and Abbreviations; List of Maps; List of Photographs; Introduction: A World War Condensed; Russia's Century of Decline: From Alexander I to Nicholas the Last; End Days of Tsardom: Russia's War, August 1914-February 1917; 1. 1916-18: The Beginnings of the "Russian" Civil Wars; Impermanent Revolution and the Phony Civil War: March-August 1917; Civil War Unproclaimed, August 1917-January 1918; The "Russian" Civil Wars and their Antecedents

From World War to Civil War: Smoke and Mirrors2. 1918-19: The Triumphal March of Reaction; Opening Campaigns: Ukraine, the Don, and the Kuban; The Finnish Civil War; Compliance or Resistance? The Intervention of the Central Powers: Ukraine, the Baltic, and Transcaucasia; The Second Kuban Campaign of the Volunteer Army and the Don Rebellion; The Revolt of the Czechoslovak Legion and the Democratic Counter-Revolution; The Birth of the Red Army; 1918-19: Post-Armistice Campaigns in the Baltic and Ukraine; 3. 1919-20: White Thrusts, Red Ripostes; Kolchak's Spring Offensive

Denikin's Moscow OffensiveThe North West Army, the Landeswehr War, and the Siege of Petrograd; North Russia; The Collapse of the AFSR, October 1919-April 1920; 4. 1920-21: Battles in the Marchlands; Transcaucasian Campaigns; The Ukrainian-Polish, Soviet-Polish, Soviet-Belarussian, and Polish-Lithuanian Wars, and the wars against the Jews; Wrangel and the Crimea; 5. 1917-21: On the Internal Fronts; War Communism: Its Nature and its Consequences; Peasant Hostility to Soviet Rule: The Volga, the Urals, Tambov, and Western Siberia; The Makhnovshchina; Red Terror

The Trade Union Question and the Workers' OppositionWorker-Sailor Opposition to the Soviet State: Petrograd and Kronshtadt, February-March 1921; The New Economic Policy; The Demise of the Mensheviks and the PSR; On the Anti-Religious Front; The Famine of 1921-22; 6. 1921-26: The Ends of the "Russian" Civil Wars; Far Eastern Dying Embers; Civil Wars and Jihad in Central Asia; Conclusion: Red Victories, Red Defeats; Notes; Bibliography; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-19-061855-8

0-19-061321-1