Wednesday, September 6, 2023

RUSSIA REVOLUTION AND CIVIL WAR 1917-1921 -Antony Beevor


 





















Another very good read from Beevor. I didn't know that it took nearly 5 years before the Bolsheviks took total control and that the US, Britain and Japan were all involved.

The slaughter and cruelty was horrendous, the white Russians were actually worse than the Bolsheviks during the civil war but as we know the 'Reds' made mass slaughter their own in the following 70 years.

As always very readable .



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