Second edition with an updated bibliography
Original title, Civil War in South
Russia, 1918
(University of California Press, 1971)
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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.
