This account of the Russian Civil War, originally published in 1971, combines a vivid narrative of the military events with a biographical discussion of the White Generals, figures of the former Imperial Russian Army offices who led the separate campaigns against the Red Soviets - men such as Kornilov, Alekseev, Kolchak, Denikin, Wrangel, Yudenich and the Finnish Yudeniol Marshal Mannerheim. Despite their shared designation, the White Generals had no common programme. Their tragedy was that Lenin's dogmatism, intransigence and ruthlessness, all essential qualities in a country which had never known anything other than autocracy, were alien to their characters.
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The White Generals
An Account of the White Movement and the Russian Civil War
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Index
Abramov, Gen., 375, 376, 380
Admiralty (St Petersburg), 31, 318
Adrianople, xvi
Afghanistan, 62
Agar, Lieut. A., 302, 305–6
Alexander II (Tsar), 6
Alexander III (Tsar), 27
Alexandrovsk, 327, 367, 370, 372
Alekseev, Gen. M. V. (1857–1918), Chief of Staff, Imp. Army, 16; character, 19, 24; & Voluntary Organisations, 20; & Guchkov, 22–3; & the abdication, 28–36, 40; as C-in-C, 42–54; & Kornilov ‘revolt’; 83; forms White Army, 90, 93, 97–102; on the Don, 105–10; & Kuban Campaign, 114–24; 2nd Kuban Campaign, 174–88; strategy, 181–2, 187–8, 209; death, 190
Allies, 94, 97, 99, 100, 133, 161, 169, 170–3, 178, 192–5, 197, 200, 208, 213, 218–19, 224–5, 244–5, 250, 309, 313, 316; & Kolchak, 343–7; & Wrangel, 367, 374, 380–1, 385
American Civil War (comparison with), 11, 275
Angara, river, 311, 347
d’Anselme, Gen., 256–7
Antonov-Ovseenko, V. A., 97; attacks Don, 108, 111; on Lenin, 234
April Theses, 38
Archangel, 170, 196–208, 223, 228, 266, 347
Archangel Michael, League of, 67
Aristocracy, infected by liberalism, 28; passivity of, 130
Armistice (Nov. 1918), 173; effects, 192–5, 219–20, 250; & Baltic, 268–9
Astrakhan, 296
Astrakhan Cossacks, 160
...Table of contents
- Cover
- Half Title
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Dedication
- Table of Contents
- Maps
- Preface
- Prologue: The First White General
- 1917: The Origins of the Counter-Revolutions
- I The Imperial Russian Army before 1917
- II The Abdication
- III The Army and the Provisional Government
- IV The Kornilov Movement
- V Headquarters to the Don
- 1918: The Time of Troubles
- VI The Campaign through the Ice
- VII General Mannerheim and the Finnish Victory
- VIII Cossacks, Germans, Czechs and Allies
- IX Denikin and the Conquest of the Kuban
- X Northern Diversion
- XI Supreme Ruler of All the Russias
- 1919: Christmas in Moscow
- XII View from the Centre
- XIII Spring
- XIV Summer
- XV Autumn and Winter
- 1920: Failure
- XVI Defeat
- XVII Wrangel and the Crimean Bastion
- XVIII The Last Stand
- Epilogue: The Reckoning
- Select Bibliography
- Index
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