Remembering a forgotten war
Subtitle: civil war in eastern European Russia and Siberia, 1918-1920
By: Serge P. Petroff.
Series: East European monographs ;; no. 560
Publisher: East European Monographs; distributed by Columbia University Press
Published: 2000
Place of publication: Boulder; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 344
Subjects: Soviet Union -- History -- Revolution, 1917-1921; Siberia, Eastern (Russia) -- History -- 20th century; Czechoslovakia -- History -- 1918-1938; Soviet Union -- History -- Revolution, 1917-1921
Description: "The Russian Revolution triggered a vicious civil war that engulfed most of the collapsed Russian Empire. Remembering a Forgotten War is dedicated to the events that took place east of the Volga river.".

"Using Soviet, Russian emigre, Czech and Western sources, the book traces the course of the Russian Civil War in Eastern European Russia and Siberia from its inception in May 1918 when the Czechoslovak Legion first raised the flag of rebellion against the Bolshevik regime and plunged Eastern European Russia and Siberia into a massive civil war.

The book encompasses the major political, economic and military aspects of that war, and is the first work to contain meaningful biographical portraits of the war's principal protagonists.".

"The book offers an account that encompasses all of the principal components of the war, including the struggle for dominance between the left and right factions of the anti-Bolshevik forces, the nature and efficiency of White and Red propaganda and, for the first time in English, details of the major military engagements and a full account of the Russian gold reserve that was seized by the Whites in Kazan.

Carefully documented, the book also presents an analysis of why the Whites lost the civil war, and a commentary on what happened to the principal participants after it."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 323-339) and index.
Table of contents: title: Acknowledgments; title: Note on dates, transliteration, and geographic names; title: Preface; title: Armed uprising; title: Alarm in Moscow and confusion abroad; title: Early promise; title: Civil war within the civil war; title: Dictatorship prevails; title: Behind the front lines; title: Taste of victory; title: False optimism; title: Beginning of the end; title: Betrayal and flight; title: Conclusion; title: Epilogue; title: Selected chronology; title: Appendices; title: Maps; title: Notes; title: Bibliography; title: Index.