The White Generals: An Account of the White Movement and the Russian Civil War

The White Generals: An Account of the White Movement and the Russian Civil War
ISBN-10
1351805320
ISBN-13
9781351805322
Category
History
Pages
432
Language
English
Published
2017-03-31
Publisher
Routledge
Author
Richard Luckett

Description

This account of the Russian Civil War, originally published in 1971, combines a vivid narrative of the military events with a biographical discussion of the White Generals, figures of the former Imperial Russian Army offices who led the separate campaigns against the Red Soviets - men such as Kornilov, Alekseev, Kolchak, Denikin, Wrangel, Yudenich and the Finnish Yudeniol Marshal Mannerheim. Despite their shared designation, the White Generals had no common programme. Their tragedy was that Lenin's dogmatism, intransigence and ruthlessness, all essential qualities in a country which had never known anything other than autocracy, were alien to their characters.

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