Title: The Bloody White Baron
Description: Roman Ungern von Sternberg was a Baltic aristocrat, a violent, headstrong youth posted to the wilds of Siberia and Mongolia before the First World War. After the Bolshevik Revolution, the Baron - now in command of a lethally effective rabble of cavalrymen - conquered Mongolia, the last time in history a country was seized by an army mounted on horses. He was a Kurtz-like figure, slaughtering everyone he suspected of irreligion or of being a Jew. And his is a story that rehearses later horrors in Russia and elsewhere.
Subjects: Bolshevik revolution, Buddhism, Lamaism, Military History, Generals, Biography, History, Generals, biography, Mongolia, history, Soviet union, history, revolution, 1917-1921, New York Times reviewed, Russia (federation), biography
Places: Russia, Soviet Union, Mongolia, China
People: Baron Roman von Ungern-Sternberg, the Bogd Khan
Time periods: 1885-1921
LC classification: DS