The Origins of the Russian Civil War (Origins Of Modern Wars)
by Geoffrey Swain
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Concentrating on the turbulent months from February 1917 to November 1918, Geoffrey Swain explores the origins of the Civil War against the wider background of revolutionary Russia. He examines the aims of the anti-Bolshevik insurgents themselves; but he also shows how far the fear of civil war governed the action of the Provisional Government, and even the plans of the Bolsheviks. If the war itself can seem a fairly straightforward line-up of revolutionaries and counter-revolutionaries, show more this study reveals how complex were the motives of the people who precipitated it. show lessTags
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Geoffrey Swain is Honorary Professor Emeritus and former Nove Chair in Russian and East European Studies at the University of Glasgow, UK.
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- Russian Civil War
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- History, Nonfiction, General Nonfiction
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- 947.084 — History & geography History of Europe Eastern European Counties and Russia Russian & Slavic History by Period 1855- 1917-1953 ; Communist period
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- DK265 .S9 — History of Europe, Asia, Africa and Oceania Russia. Soviet Union. Former Soviet Republics – Poland History of Russia. Soviet Union. Former Soviet Republics History Revolution, 1917-1921
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