The Origins of the Russian Civil War

by Geoff Swain and Geoffrey Swain

Book Overview

Concentrating on the turbulent months from February 1917 to November 1918, Geoffrey Swain explores the origins of the Civil War against the wider background of revolutionary Russia. He examines the aims of the anti-Bolshevik insurgents themselves; but he also shows how far the fear of civil war governed the action of the Provisional Government, and even the plans of the Bolsheviks. If the war itself can seem a fairly straightforward line-up of...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0582059682
• ISBN13: 9780582059689
• Release Date: October 1995
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 310 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.5" x 8.5"