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The "Russian" Civil Wars, 1916-1926

Ten Years That Shook the World

By: Jonathan Smele

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The "Russian" Civil Wars, 1916-1926

Ten Years That Shook the World

By: Jonathan Smele

This volume offers a comprehensive and original analysis and reconceptualisation of the compendium of struggles that wracked the collapsing Tsarist empire and the emergent USSR, profoundly affecting the history of the twentieth century. Indeed, the reverberations of those decade-long wars echo to the present day - not despite, but because of the collapse of the Soviet Union, which re-opened many old wounds, from the Baltic to the Caucasus. Contemporary memorialising and 'de-memorialising' of these wars, therefore form part of the book's focus, but at its heart lie the struggles between various Russian political and military forces which sought to inherit and preserve, or even expand, the territory of the tsars, overlain with examinations of the attempts of many non-Russian national and religious groups to divide the former empire. The reasons why some of the latter were successful (Poland and Finland, for example), while others (Ukraine, Georgia and the Muslim Basmachi) were not, are as much the author's concern as are explanations as to why the chief victors of the 'Russian' Civil Wars were the Bolsheviks. Tellingly, the work begins and ends with battles in Central Asia - a theatre of the 'Russian' Civil Wars that was closer to Mumbai than it was to Moscow.

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The "Russian" Civil Wars, 1916-1926

Ten Years That Shook the World

By: Jonathan Smele

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Ten Years That Shook the World

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The Russian Revolution and Civil War 1917-1921

An Annotated Bibliography

By: Jonathan Smele

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The Russian Revolution and Civil War 1917-1921

An Annotated Bibliography

By: Jonathan Smele

The Russian Revolution and Civil War in the years 1917 to 1921 is one of the most widely studied periods in history. It is also somewhat inevitably one that has generated a huge flow of literature in the decades that have passed since the events themselves. However, until now, historians of the revolution have had no dedicated bibliography of the period and little claim to bibliographical control over the literature. The Russian Revolution and Civil War, 1917-1921offers for the first time a comprehensive bibliographical guide to this crucial and fascinating period of history. The Bibliography focuses on the key years of 1917 to 1921, starting with the February Revolution of 1917 and concluding with the 10th Party Congress of March 1921, and covers all the key events of the intervening years. As such it identifies these crucial years as something more than simply the creation of a communist state.

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1441119922

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Historical Dictionary of the Russian Civil Wars, 1916-1926

By: Jonathan D. Smele

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Historical Dictionary of the Russian Civil Wars, 1916-1926

By: Jonathan D. Smele

This book is a detailed reference of the twentieth century struggles that were waged across and beyond the decaying Russian Empire at the end of the First World War, as tsarism and democratic alternatives to it collapsed and the world’s first Communist state, the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, was born. At the same time, it is a necessary corrective to studies that have viewed events of the time as a unitary “Russian Civil War” that sprang from the Russian Revolution of 1917. Instead, it contributes to the ongoing process of integrating the civil wars into a “continuum of crises” that wracked the Russian Empire and its would-be successor states across a prolonged period. The Historical Dictionary of the Russian Civil Wars, 1916-1926 covers the history of this period through a chronology, an introductory essay, appendixes, and an extensive bibliography. The dictionary section has almost 2,000 cross-referenced entries on individuals, political and governmental institutions and political parties, and military formations and concepts, as well as religion, art, film, propaganda, uniforms, and weaponry. This book is an excellent access point for students, researchers, and anyone wanting to know more about the Russian Civil War.

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Rowman & Littlefield

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1442252812

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The Russian Revolution and Its Global Impact

A Short History with Documents

By: Jonathan Daly,Leonid Trofimov

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The Russian Revolution and Its Global Impact

A Short History with Documents

By: Jonathan Daly,Leonid Trofimov

On the centenary of the Russian Revolution, Jonathan Daly and Leonid Trofimov have reinvigorated the study of a turning point in world history. Instead of rehashing the internal dynamics of the Bolshevik takeover, the authors have carefully juxtaposed the international ambitions of the Bolsheviks with the Revolution’s reception around the world. Daly and Trofimov pair their lucid introductory essay with documents from Soviet officials, intellectuals in South America, W. E. B. Du Bois in the United States, and others, so readers will quickly realize how revolutionary ideas cross oceans and transcend geopolitical boundaries. This volume thus takes a topic once reserved for students of Russian history and places it in a world historical perspective; those interested in global history, European history, and, of course, those fascinated by events in Petrograd and Moscow will find ample sources of inspiration in this text. As the Russian Federation is now exerting its influence on a global scale, the time is ripe to consider the Russian Revolution in such broad terms." —Nigel Raab, Loyola Marymount University

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Hackett Publishing

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1624666264

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Historical Dictionary of the Russian Civil Wars, 1916-1926

By: Jonathan D. Smele

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Theory of Irregular War

By: Jonathan W. Hackett

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Theory of Irregular War

By: Jonathan W. Hackett

From Afghanistan to Angola, Indonesia to Iran, and Colombia to Congo, violent reactions erupt, states collapse, and militaries relentlessly pursue operations doomed to fail. And yet, no useful theory exists to explain this common tragedy. All over the world, people and states clash violently outside their established political systems, as unfulfilled demands of control and productivity bend the modern state to a breaking point. This book lays out how dysfunctional governments disrupt social orders, make territory insecure, and interfere with political-economic institutions. These give rise to a form of organized violence against the state known as irregular war. Research reveals why this frequent phenomenon is so poorly understood among conventional forces in those conflicts and the states who send their children to die in them.

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McFarland

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147665154X

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The Lockhart Plot

Love, Betrayal, Assassination and Counter-Revolution in Lenin's Russia

By: Jonathan Schneer

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The Lockhart Plot

Love, Betrayal, Assassination and Counter-Revolution in Lenin's Russia

By: Jonathan Schneer

This is the extraordinary story of the British plot in the summer of 1918 to overthrow the Bolshevik government in Russia, murder the Bolshevik leaders, and install a new government in Moscow that would re-open the war against the Germans on the Eastern Front. Conceived by the British envoy to the Bolsheviks, Robert Bruce Lockhart, a dashing, cynical, urbane 30-year-old Scot, and involving French, American, and Russian accomplices, the planultimately failed - which is why it has until now remained shrouded in mystery. It was a plot in which the fate of the Revolution and the future shape of world history were upfor grabs, and the story behind it is a thrilling one involving a game of cat and mouse with the Bolshevik secret police, the Cheka, as well as murder, attempted murder, and a passionate love affair between Lockhart and one of his Russian accomplices, the beautiful Russian aristocrat Moura von Benckendorff.

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Oxford University Press, USA

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0198852983

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Historical Dictionary of the Russian Revolution

By: Jonathan Davis

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Historical Dictionary of the Russian Revolution

By: Jonathan Davis

Historical Dictionary of the Russian Revolution focuses on the leading individuals, ideas, political parties and main events that were central to the transformation of Russia during the revolution. The time period runs from January 1917 through to the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk that took Russia out of the First World War in March 1918. It covers the main events, ideas, people and parties and takes the story of the revolution from the eve of the overthrowing of Tsar Nicholas II through to the Bolshevik seizure of power, the first six months of Leninist rule and the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk that ended Russia’s involvement in the First World War. Historical Dictionary of the Russian Revolution contains a chronology, an introduction, and an extensive bibliography. The dictionary section has over 200 cross-referenced entries on the revolutions, the First World War, political parties, ideologies and individuals, and the main events that defined the course of the Russian Revolution. This book is an excellent resource for students, researchers, and anyone wanting to know more about the Russian Revolution.

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1538139812

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Crime and Punishment in Russia

A Comparative History from Peter the Great to Vladimir Putin

By: Jonathan Daly

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Crime and Punishment in Russia

A Comparative History from Peter the Great to Vladimir Putin

By: Jonathan Daly

Crime and Punishment in Russia surveys the evolution of criminal justice in Russia during a span of more than 300 years, from the early modern era to the present day. Maps, organizational charts, a list of important dates, and a glossary help the reader to navigate key institutional, legal, political, and cultural developments in this evolution. The book approaches Russia both on its own terms and in light of changes in Europe and the wider West, to which Russia's rulers and educated elites continuously looked for legal models and inspiration. It examines the weak advancement of the rule of the law over the period and analyzes the contrasts and seeming contradictions of a society in which capital punishment was sharply restricted in the mid-1700s, while penal and administrative exile remained heavily applied until 1917 and even beyond. Daly also provides concise political, social, and economic contextual detail, showing how the story of crime and punishment fits into the broader narrative of modern Russian history. This is an important and useful book for all students of modern Russian history as well as of the history of crime and punishment in modern Europe.

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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1474224385

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The Russian Revolution and Civil War 1917-1921

An Annotated Bibliography

By: Jonathan Smele

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An Annotated Bibliography

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The "Russian" Civil Wars, 1916-1926

The "Russian" Civil Wars, 1916-1926

The "Russian" Civil Wars, 1916-1926

The "Russian" Civil Wars, 1916-1926

The Russian Revolution and Civil War 1917-1921

The Russian Revolution and Civil War 1917-1921

Historical Dictionary of the Russian Civil Wars, 1916-1926

Historical Dictionary of the Russian Civil Wars, 1916-1926

The Russian Revolution and Its Global Impact

The Russian Revolution and Its Global Impact

Historical Dictionary of the Russian Civil Wars, 1916-1926

Historical Dictionary of the Russian Civil Wars, 1916-1926

Theory of Irregular War

Theory of Irregular War

The Lockhart Plot

The Lockhart Plot

Historical Dictionary of the Russian Revolution

Historical Dictionary of the Russian Revolution

Crime and Punishment in Russia

Crime and Punishment in Russia

The Russian Revolution and Civil War 1917-1921

The Russian Revolution and Civil War 1917-1921

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