Open Daily: 10am - 10pm | Alley door pickup 10am - 7pm 3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
612-822-4611

  • Open Daily: 10am - 10pm
    Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm

    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

Open Daily: 10am - 10pm | Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm
3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
612-822-4611
An Anti-Bolshevik Alternative: The White Movement and the Civil War in the Russian North

An Anti-Bolshevik Alternative: The White Movement and the Civil War in the Russian North

Novikova, Liudmila

Hardcover

General World HistoryRussian HistorySocial Movements

ISBN10: 0299317404
ISBN13: 9780299317409
Publisher: Univ Of Wisconsin Pr
Published: Jun 26 2018
Pages: 344
Weight: 1.36
Height: 0.90 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.10
Language: English
The traditional narrative of the Russian Civil War is one of revolution against counterrevolution, Bolshevik Reds against Tsarist Whites. Liudmila Novikova convincingly demonstrates, however, that the struggle was not between a Communist future and a Tsarist past; instead, it was a bloody fight among diverse factions of a modernizing postrevolutionary state. Focusing on the sparsely populated Arkhangelsk region in northern Russia, she shows that the anti-Bolshevik government there, which held out from 1918 to early 1920, was a revolutionary alternative bolstered by broad popular support.

Novikova draws on declassified archives and sources in both Russia and the West to reveal the White movement in the north as a complex social and political phenomenon with a distinct regional context. She documents the politics of the Northern Government and its relations with the British and American forces who had occupied the ports of Murmansk and Arkhangelsk at the end of World War I. As the civil war continued, the increasing involvement of the local population transformed the conflict into a ferocious people's war until remaining White forces under General Yevgeny Miller evacuated the region in February 1920.

Also in

Russian History

View All