02292cam a2200313 i 4500 22679212 20260617123518.0 220705s2022 nyuab b 001 0deng 9780593493878 (hardcover) 9780593493885 (ebook) 22679212 DLC eng rda DLC DLC DLC DK265 .B414 2022 Beevor, Antony, 1946- author. Russia : revolution and civil war, 1917-1921 / Antony Beevor. Revolution and civil war, 1917-1921 First North American edition. [New York, New York] : Viking, 2022 576 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm text txt rdacontent unmediated n rdamedia volume nc rdacarrier Includes bibliographical references (pages 510-562) and index. "An epic new account of the conflict that reshaped Eastern Europe and set the stage for the rest of the twentieth century. Between 1917 and 1921 a devastating struggle took place in Russia following the collapse of the Tsarist empire. The doomed White alliance of moderate socialists and reactionary monarchists stood little chance against Trotsky's Red Army and the single-minded Communist dictatorship under Lenin. In the savage civil war that followed, terror begat terror, which in turn led to ever greater cruelty with man's inhumanity to man, woman and child. The struggle became a world war by proxy as Churchill deployed weaponry and troops from the British empire, while contingents from the United States, France, Italy, Japan, Poland, and Czechoslovakia played rival parts. Using the most up to date scholarship and archival research, Antony Beevor assembles the complete picture in a gripping narrative that conveys the conflict through the eyes of everyone from the worker on the streets of Petrograd to the cavalry officer on the battlefield and the doctor in an improvised hospital"-- Soviet Union History Revolution, 1917-1921. 7 cbc orignew 1 ecip 20 y-gencatlg BK nseq 28076 28076 nseq 0 30879 WA_961_W WA_961_W 2026-05-11 0 22866 00022866 2026-05-11 00:00:00 2026-05-11 BK