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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.
- Standardized Title:
- Provint͡sialʹnai͡a "kontrrevoli͡ut͡sii͡a". English
- Language:
- English
- Russian
- Subjects (All):
- 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.
- Genre:
- Electronic books.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (341 pages)
- Place of Publication:
- Madison, Wisconsin : The University of Wisconsin Press, [2018]
- Language Note:
- In English and Russian.
- 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 Yevgeny Miller evacuated the region in February 1920.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- 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.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9780299317430
- 0299317439
- OCLC:
- 1040032419
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