Russia Under the Bolshevik Regime

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Why the Red Army won; birth of the Volunteer Army; the rise of the Whites in Siberia; slow emergence of the Red Army; the Moscow Centers; origins of the Directory; Denikin’s early moves; Kolchak Supreme Ruler; Kolchak’s policies.

2    The Civil War: The (1919–1920)

Creation of the Red Army; its morale and discipline; Allied policies; Britain’s role; French intervention; Kolchak’s offensive; Denikin’s campaigns in early 1919; Red counteroffensive in the East; Denikin orders drive on Moscow; the Whites, Poland and Finland; the “Greens”; Britain reassesses her involvement in Russia; Trotsky tries to resign; Anti-Jewish pogroms in the Ukraine, 1918–20; the end of Kolchak; the end of the National Center: the Whites approach Moscow; Iudenich attacks Petrograd and suffers defeat; the Reds crush Denikin; Wrangel; an assessment of the Civil War; its costs.

3    The Red Empire

The non-Russian population; the nationality question emerges in 1917; separatism after October; the Ukraine; Bolshevik reconquest of Muslim areas; the reconquest of the Caucasus.

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