Russia in flames : war, revolution, civil war, 1914-1921 /
In 1913, the Romanov dynasty celebrated its tercentenary, three centuries of autocratic rule over one of the world's mightiest and most expansive empires. Four years later, the monarchy lay in ruins and a brutal struggle had begun to fill the vacuum of power. The Russian Revolution utterly resh...
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New York :
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Table of Contents:
- Author's Note
- Part I: Last Years of the Old Empire, 1904-1914
- Part II: The Great War : Imperial Self-Destruction
- The Great War Begins
- Germans, Jews, Armenians
- Tearing Themselves Apart
- Conflict and Collapse
- Part III: 1917 : Contest for Control
- Five Days that Shook the World
- The Provisional Government and the War
- August-September : From Putsch to Coup
- Bolshevik October
- Death of the Constituent Assembly
- Politics from Below
- Part IV: Sovereign Claims
- The Peace that Wasn't
- Treason and Terror
- Finland's Civil War
- Baltic Entanglements
- Ukrainian Drama, Act I
- Colonial Repercussions
- Part V: War Within
- The Unquiet Don
- Foreign Bodies
- Trotsky Arms, Siberia Mobilizes
- Kolchak : the Wild East
- Ukraine, Act II
- War Against the Cossacks
- Miracle on the Vistula
- War Against the Jews : 1919-1920
- The Last Page
- War Against the Peasants
- Part VI: Victory and Retreat
- The Proletariat in the Proletarian Dictatorship
- The Revolution Turns Against Itself
- Conclusion.