| Description |
1 online resource (xix, 452 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations, maps |
| Contents |
Book Cover; Half-Title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Illustrations; Abbreviations and acronyms; Preface; Acknowledgments; 1 Prelude to terror; 2 Revolution and red terror; 3 Counterrevolution; 4 The white terror begins; 5 Rodomontade and girls with diamonds; 6 White terror on the magistral; 7 The white collapse begins; 8 Red onslaught; 9 White-Japanese resurgence, panic and disaster; 10 Götterdämmerung; 11 Diaspora, manchurian revival and legacy; Appendix 1; Appendix 2; Appendix 3; Glossary; Notes; Select bibliography; Index |
| Summary |
This is the gripping story of a forgotten Russia in turmoil, when the line between government and organized crime blurred into a chaotic continuum of kleptocracy, vengeance and sadism. It tells the tale of how, in the last days of 1917, a fugitive Cossack captain brashly led seven cohorts into a mutinous garrison at Manchuli, a squalid bordertown on Russia's frontier with Manchuria. The garrison had gone Red, revolted against its officers, and become a dangerous, ill-disciplined mob. Nevertheless, Cossack Captain Grigori Semionov cleverly harangued the garrison into laying dow |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 402-440) and index |
| Notes |
English |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
HISTORY.
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Protest movements
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| SUBJECT |
Siberia (Russia) -- History -- Revolution, 1917-1921 -- Protest movements
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Russian Far East (Russia) -- History -- 1917-1921. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85125704
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| Subject |
Russia (Federation) -- Russian Far East
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Russia (Federation) -- Siberia
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
0203341864 |
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9780203341865 |
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1280291370 |
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9781280291371 |
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9786610291373 |
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6610291373 |
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1135765952 |
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9781135765958 |
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