Red Victory: A History of the Russian Civil War

This is an immensely informative and enjoyable book. Lincoln is among the better narrative historians although he does interject some analyses as well. The book Red Victory is not only about the Russian Civil War but about the almost insurmountable obstacles...political, economic, and military...faced by Lenin and the Bolsheviks after their seizure of power. The Russian Civil War was a confusing chaotic affair with numerous... Read Full Review

Lincoln very engagingly takes the reader into the private memoirs of hundreds of principal characters, into the thinking of Lenin and Trotsky and Stalin, and into the changing and complex fabric of Russian life during its Civil War. Every page breathes the idea "revolution" as the cure-all in the Reds' minds for every ill in Russian society, while the Whites seem more bent on democracy or a dictatorship (like the tsarist days),... Read Full Review

This is a great look at a bloody moment in Russian history. Fascinating, exciting, and well written, this is how hisotry should be written.

This is an excellent and highly readable history of the Russian Civil War. It gives plenty of details about the campaigns, the personalities of the leaders, what conditions were like for both sides during the war and miscellaneous stories (my favorite was the episode of the purple ray in the Ukraine) without ever losing track of the big picture. I've read other books on the subject, but none of them told the story as... Read Full Review