White Siberia
Subtitle: The Politics of Civil War
Publisher: McGill-Queen's University Press
Published: March 1996
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 261
ISBN-13: 9780773513495
Subjects: Russia - History - 1917 To 1991; Politics/International Relations; Asian / Middle Eastern history: from c 1900 -; Civil war; First World War, 1914-1918; Inter-war period, 1918-1939; POLITICS & GOVERNMENT; Siberia
Description: In this detailed analysis of the anti-Bolshevik movement in Siberia during the Russian Revolution and Civil War, N. G. O. Pereira argues that the White counter-revolution failed in Siberia because of the political weakness of the anti-Soviet governments vying for power in the region and their policies toward the Siberian peasantry.

He highlights similarities and differences among the constitutional programs and ideologies, paying particular attention to the Kolchak government as the chief anti-Bolshevik force in the region.

Through his analysis of the conflict, Pereira attempts to determine whether parliamentary democracy stood any real chance under the extraordinary circumstances or whether it was, as the Bolsheviks alleged, merely window-dressing hiding the real agenda of military counter-revolution and restoration of the ancien regime.