The Russian Civil War : primary sources /
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| Author / Creator: | Murphy, Brian, 1923- |
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| Imprint: | New York : St. Martin's Press, 2000. |
| Description: | xviii, 274 p. : maps ; 23 cm. |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/4369183 |
Table of Contents:
- Preface
- Introduction
- Conflicting views of the post-revolutionary struggle
- Core and periphery: the conduct of the war
- The Red Army: dilemmas of recruitment
- Reasons for success: the hand of historical inevitability
- 1. 1918: Germans Rout Reds
- Yield nothing to the Germans
- Don Soviet Republic
- Nominal roll
- Individual appointments
- Disorders in Don Territory
- Nizhne-Chirskaya uprising (led by Rastegayev)
- Anti-Soviet rebellion, Salsk
- Paromonov miners
- Reds retreat in Ukraine
- Food Shortages
- Kornilov killed: Denikin heads Volunteer Army
- Deceiving the Germans
- 2. 1919: Whites
- White agents' instructions
- Establishments for artillery, medical, communications, armoured cars
- Shell Workshop in Taganrog
- Pay
- Housing
- Hygiene in Novocherkassk
- Conscription
- Supplies
- Finance
- Czechs
- Leather and winter clothing
- 3. 1919: Red strategy
- Situation reports
- Commissars versus commanders
- Military intelligence reports
- Cheka reports
- Personnel
- Supplies: January to June 1919
- Supplies: June 1919 to April 1921
- Large numbers of deserters
- Greens
- Bryansk rebellion
- 4. 1919: Who will win?
- Policy towards Cossacks
- February to May 1919
- June 1919
- Future policy for the Don
- Colonel Mironov and the Donburo
- Makarov reports to Cossack Section of VTsIK
- Makarov's letter to Lenin
- Petrograd: evacuate or fight in streets?
- Measures to combat Mamontov raid
- Voronezh: Whites demand surrender
- Beloborodov: importance of cavalry
- 5. Sergeant Budyonny
- Fact and myth
- Voroshilov and RVS defend 1st Cavalry
- 1919: Budyonny attacked commissar Chernov
- 1920: Red Army take Rostov
- Cheka report on South Russia
- Cavalry take transport: Sokolnikov and Mironov cannot control
- Stalin and Ordzhonikidze protect Budyonny
- May: campaign against the Poles
- August: Zhilinsky criticizes 1st Cavalry
- August: 1st Cavalry versus Zhilinsky
- Stiffen political reliability
- September: Makhno's influence; commissar murdered
- October: moving to fight Vrangel; pogroms in Ukraine
- Measures to restore order
- Budyonny argues against Frunze's plan
- Trotsky: Budyonny to obey Frunze
- November: 1st Cavalry refuse to receive delegations
- December: reinvigorate the Communist Party
- Appendix I. Glossary and Abbreviations
- Appendix II. Some Persons Mentioned
- Select Bibliography
- Maps
- (1). River Don and River Volga
- (2). Kuban' and Black Sea
- (3). Ukraine to Polish border
- Index
