Behind the front lines of the civil war : political parties and social movements in Russia, 1918-1922 /

Brovkin, Vladimir N.,

Behind the front lines of the civil war : political parties and social movements in Russia, 1918-1922 / Vladimir N. Brovkin. - Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press, (c)1994. - 1 online resource (470 pages) : illustrations, maps. - Princeton Legacy Library .

Includes bibliographies and index.

Part 1: 1918-1919; Part 2: 1920-1921.

Countering the powerful myth that the civil war in Russia was largely between the ""Whites"" and the ""Reds, "" Vladimir Brovkin views the struggle as a multifaceted social and political process. Brovkin focuses not so much on armies and governments as on the interaction of state institutions, political parties, and social movements on both Red and White territories. In the process, he exposes the weaknesses of the various warring factions in a Russia plagued by strikes, mutinies, desertion, and rebellions. The Whites benefited from popular resistance to the Reds, and the Reds, from resistanc.



9781400872862


Electronic Books.

DK265 / .B445 1994