Red Advance, White Defeat by Peter Kenez
Second edition with an updated bibliography. This volume is the sequel to RED ATACK, WHITE RESISTANCE by Peter Kenez. 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.
Kenez, Peter: - Peter Kenez is Professor of History at the University of California, Santa Cruz. He is the author of A History of the Soviet Union from the Beginning to the End (1999); Varieties of Fear (1995); Cinema and Soviet Society (1992); The Birth of the Propaganda State (1985); Civil War in South Russia, 1918 (1971); and Civil War in South Russia, 1919-1920 (1976). He is the editor, with Abbott Gleason and Richard Stites, of Bolshevik Culture: Experiment and Order in the Russian Revolution (1989).
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| ISBN 13 | 9780974493459 |
| ISBN 10 | 0974493457 |
| Title | Red Advance, White Defeat |
| Author | Peter Kenez |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | New Academia Publishing, LLC |
| Year published | 2008-07-01 |
| Number of pages | 408 |
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