revolution and civil war, 1917-1921 Beevor, Antony 1946- creator author. text bibliography biography nyu New York, New York] Viking 2022 First North American edition. monographic eng

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576 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm "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"-- Antony Beevor. Includes bibliographical references (pages 510-562) and index. Soviet Union History Revolution, 1917-1921 DK265 .B414 2022 9780593493878 DLC 220705 20260617123518.0 22679212 eng