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Book/Printed Material Essays on the History of the Civil War of 1917-1920.

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Title

  • Essays on the History of the Civil War of 1917-1920.

Summary

  • Essays on the History of the Civil War of 1917-1920 is an early history of the civil war that followed the Bolshevik Revolution of 1917. The book was written by Anatolii Anishev, a researcher at the Tolmachev Military-Political Academy in Leningrad (present-day Saint Petersburg), and published in Leningrad in 1925. In his introduction, Anishev notes that archival sources relating to the war were in poor condition and that almost no monographs existed. This forced him to rely on articles in White Russian magazines and newspapers, which were biased and unreliable. Many documents produced by the revolutionary side were also biased and overly optimistic. In view of these limitations, Anishev states that his goal is to provide a framework for a more authoritative history to be written in the future. He focuses on highlighting what he sees as the four main stages of the revolution and its aftermath. Stage one, October 1917--March 1918, was marked by the Bolshevik overthrow of the government, formation of the dictatorship of the proletariat, and the signing of the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk ending Russian participation in World War I. Stage two, April--May 1918, saw the emergence of counterrevolution in the south and the offensive by the Czechoslovak legion that swept away Bolshevik control in large parts of Russia. Stage three, June--November 1918, was the high point of war communism, as the alliance of the proletariat and the peasants struggled against the counterrevolution and as starvation spread in the villages. Stage four, November 1918--spring 1920, was marked by the fight of the proletariat, in alliance with the serednyaks (middle-income peasants), against counterrevolution led by the landlords. This final stage saw the elimination of three key White Russian commanders: Admiral Alexander Vasilyevich Kolchak, who had established a dictatorial reactionary government in Siberia and who was executed; and Nikolai Nikolayevich Yudenich and Anton Ivanovich Denikin, White Russian generals who fled Russia and went into exile. The book is preserved in the State Public Historical Library of Russia.

Names

  • Anatolii, Anishev Author.

Created / Published

  • [place of publication not identified] : Government Press, 1925.

Headings

  • -  Czech Republic
  • -  Germany
  • -  Russian Federation
  • -  Slovakia
  • -  Ukraine
  • -  1917 to 1920
  • -  Communism
  • -  Revolutionaries
  • -  Revolutions
  • -  Socialism
  • -  Soviet Union -- History -- Revolution, 1917-1921
  • -  World War, 1914-1918

Notes

  • -  Title devised, in English, by Library staff.
  • -  Original resource extent: 288 pages.
  • -  Original resource at: Boris Yeltsin Presidential Library.
  • -  Content in Russian.
  • -  Description based on data extracted from World Digital Library, which may be extracted from partner institutions.

Medium

  • 1 online resource.

Source Collection

  • World War I

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Library of Congress Control Number

  • 2021666632

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  • pdf
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Chicago citation style:

Anatolii, Anishev Author. Essays on the History of the Civil War of -1920. [place of publication not identified: Government Press, 1925] Pdf. https://www.loc.gov/item/2021666632/.

APA citation style:

Anatolii, A. A. (1925) Essays on the History of the Civil War of -1920. [place of publication not identified: Government Press] [Pdf] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/2021666632/.

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Anatolii, Anishev Author. Essays on the History of the Civil War of -1920. [place of publication not identified: Government Press, 1925] Pdf. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov/item/2021666632/>.