‘General Slashchov’ [Rev. on: Ganin A. V. White General and Red Military Specialist Yakov Slashchov-Krymsky. Moscow, 2021]
Journal: Modern History of Russia
Year: 2023

The article describes the work prepared by the Moscow historian A. V. Ganin, the first scholarly biography of Ya. A. Slashchov, one of the most famous figures of the White movement in Southern Russia, a talented general and a prolific memoirist, the author of classic notes on the defense of the Crimea in 1920 and his relationship with the White dictator, General P. N. Wrangel. Slashchov is an exceptionally bright and charismatic figure, and evaluations of his activities are diametrically opposed