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Hardcover Red Victory: A History of the Russian Civil War Book

ISBN: 0671631667

ISBN13: 9780671631666

Red Victory: A History of the Russian Civil War

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Book Overview

Shortly after withdrawing from World War I, Russia descended into a bitter civil war unprecedented for its savagery: epidemics, battles, mass executions, forced labor, and famine claimed millions of lives. From 1918 to 1921, through great cities and tiny villages, across untouched forests and vast frozen wasteland, the Bolshevik "Reds" fought the anti-Communist Whites and their Allies (fourteen foreign countries contributed weapons, money, and troops--including 20,000 American soldiers). This landmark history re-creates the epic conflict that transformed Russia from the Empire of the Tsars into the Empire of the Commissars, while never losing sight of the horrifying human cost. This description may be from another edition of this product.

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Rated 5 stars
Excellent book about a difficult topic

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...

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Rated 5 stars
Very engaging history on a very complex subject

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),...

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Rated 5 stars
Good History

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

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Rated 5 stars
Best one volume history of the Russian Civil War

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...

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