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Cosa accadde in Russia nel 2017, dopo che Lenin e i suoi ebbero preso il potere? La fine della Rivoluzione non significò anche la fine degli scontri, anzi segnò l'inizio di una lunga guerra civile destinata a protrarsi fino al 1921, che vide la popolazione divisa tra i bolscevichi (i Rossi) e i controrivoluzionari (i Bianchi), appoggiati dalle forze armate di quattordici potenze straniere e da una dozzina di gruppi nazionali in lotta per l'indipendenza. Dopo le disastrose sconfitte subite dal Paese nella Grande Guerra e le due rivoluzioni del '17, questi ulteriori quattro anni di conflitto furono per la popolazione un periodo di enormi sofferenze, atrocità, epidemie e carestie, che ebbero durature conseguenze sul piano demografico, sociale ed economico. Un'immane tragedia che in queste pagine Lincoln racconta con equilibrio e competenza, ricostruendo gli scenari e tratteggiando i protagonisti - da Trockij a Stalin a Majakovskij - di una delle più aspre guerre intestine dei tempi moderni.
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- Pagine: 776
- Data di uscita: 30-04-2018
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I have no time to write much now. My main feeling concerning this history of the Russian Civil War is that history seems to be mainly an ongoing story of war, crusades, massacres, genocide, famine, disease, and disaster on top of terrible hardship and suffering--and the loss of all hope. After read
Lincoln’s history details the power grabs, the bloodshed, and the horrific events that follow “the euphoria of 1917, when the Revolution had flourished and men and women had worked in common to build a world free of bureaucracy, coercion, and state control" (504). The book does a good job situating Leggi tutto
Quite good. This is the concluding volume of a trilogy by the same author, which documents the transition from Tsarist Russia to the Soviet Union; the other volumes being In war's dark shadow: The Russians before the Great War and Passage Through Armageddon: The Russians in War & Revolution 1914-18 . Leggi tutto
This sucked! I want some good history on the Russian Civil War. You can get tons and tons of stuff on the Revolution- the Civil War that came after, which arguably shaped the Soviet Union much more than the revolution did, is much harder to find books about. This one is supposed to be a standard, so Leggi tutto
In a word: dazzling. Fuller review soon.
Soviet Russia history is my jam. Particularly the early Bolshevik stuff. The tactics, the politics, drama, it all comes together into an interesting soup that’s as exciting as it is disheartening. But, what I’m not as well-versed on is the Russian Civil war. I’m aware it happened, and was aware of s Leggi tutto
This book is a good history of a complicated subject. The Russian Civil War was a complex conflict that was fought on many fronts with little coordination between the various White forces. To make the situation more complicated were the various wars for national independence from Russia. Estonia, La Leggi tutto
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