1st Edition

The Origins of the Russian Civil War

By Geoffrey Swain Copyright 1996
310 Pages
by Routledge

312 Pages
by Routledge

312 Pages
by Routledge

Concentrating on the turbulent months from February 1917 to November 1918, Geoffrey Swain explores the origins of the Civil War against the wider background of revolutionary Russia. He examines the aims of the anti-Bolshevik insurgents themselves; but he also shows how far the fear of civil war governed the action of the Provisional Government, and even the plans of the Bolsheviks. If the war... Read more
Editor's Foreword.
Preface.
Introduction.
1. The Failed White Counter-revolution.
2. Lenin Risks a Red-Green Civil War.
3. Peace for Renewed Civil War.
4. The British and the Patriotic Socialists.
5. Defending the Socialist Fatherland.
6. The Start of the Red-Green Civil War.
7. Disunity in the Green Camp
8. Green Directory, White Counter-revolution.
Conclusion.
Glossary.
Bibliography.
Index.


Biography

Geoffrey Swain