Second edition with an updated bibliography
Original title, Civil War in South
Russia, 1919-1920
(University of California Press, 1977)
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FROM THE BOOK
Praise
“The republication of Professor Kenez's classic volumes is to
be warmly welcomed. Based on copious archival research and a close reading
of published memoirs and mixing careful narrative with judicious analysis,
they still provide the definitive history of the anti-Bolshevik movement in
South Russia. Their original publication
provided an inspiration for a generation of scholars of the Russian Civil
War; the new edition will certainly inspire another. The armchair historian
too, as well as all those interested in the fate of contemporary Russia,
will find much to admire and much to ponder upon in this well told tale of
one of the most bloody and tragic episodes in recent European history.”
- Jonathan D.
Smele, University
of London.
“The profession will be delighted to learn that this classic
study of the Russian Civil War (1917-21) on its most crucial battleground
is again available. Kenez’s work was the first in any language to cut
through the rhetoric of partisan memory and historiography in order to present
a complicated and balanced view of both sides. While demythologizing Soviet
historical explanations, Kenez is especially keen in displaying the
enormous variety of the “White,” or anti-Communist, movement and analyzing
the causes of its defeat.”
- Richard Stites, Georgetown University.
