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The Russian Civil War was one of the most fateful of the 20th
century's military conflicts, a bloody three-year struggle whose
outcome saw the establishment of a totalitarian communist regime
within the former Russian Empire. As such, it commands the
attention of the military specialist and layman alike as we mark
the one hundredth anniversary of the war's end. This work is the
third volume of the three-volume Soviet official history of the
Russian Civil War, which appeared during 1928-1930, just before the
imposition of Stalinist orthodoxy. While the preceding volumes
focused on the minutiae of the Red Army's organizational
development and military art, this volume provides an in-depth
description and analysis of the of the civil war's major operations
along the numerous fronts, from the North Caucasus, the Don and
Volga rivers, the White Sea area, the Baltic States and Ukraine, as
well as Siberia and Poland. It also offers a well-argued case for
the political reasons behind the Bolsheviks' military strategy and
eventual success against their White opponents. And while it is a
certainly a partisan document with a definite political bias, it is
at the same time a straightforward military history that manages to
avoid many of the hoary myths that later came to dominate the
subject. As such, it is easily the most objective account of the
struggle to emerge from the Soviet Union before the collapse of the
communist system in 1991.
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