The Russian revolution: 1917-1924. 2

584 Pages·1987·40.407 MB·English

by  Chamberlin, William Henry

THE RUSSIAN REVOLUTION
STALIN
THE
RUSSIAN REVOLUTION
1917-1921
BY
WILLIAM HENRY CHAMBERLIN
VOLUME TWO
WITH A SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY OF
RECENT WORKS ON THE CIVIL WAR
BY DIANE KOENKER
PRINCETON UNIVERSITY PRESS
PRINCETON, NEW JERSEY
Published by Princeton University Press, 41 William Street, Princeton, New Jersey 08540
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Copyright © 1935 by The Macmillan Company
Selected bibliography © 1987 by Princeton University Press
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Reissued with a new introduction, February, 1952
First Princeton Paperback printing, 1987
LCC 87-3719
ISBN 0-691-05493-2
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CONTENTS
CHAPTER PAGE
XX THE CLASH WITH THE CZECHS AND THE DEM-
OCRATIC COUNTERREVOLUTION 1
XXI THE REVOLUTION ARMS ITSELF 25
XXII THE MOST CRITICAL PERIOD 42
XXIII TERROR, RED AND WHITE 66
XXIV THE END OF THE TSARIST FAMILY 84
XXV WAR COMMUNISM 96
XXVI THE TURN OF THE TIDE AND THE GERMAN REV-
OLUTION 118
XXVII DENIKIN AND THE COSSACK VENDEE 134
XXVIII ALLIED INTERVENTION 150
XXIX THE RISE AND FALL OF KOLCHAK 173
XXX THE NEW REVOLUTIONARY OFFENSIVE 206
XXXI UKRAINA, WHIRLPOOL OF PEASANT ANARCHISM 221
XXXII "RUSSIA SHALL BE GREAT, UNITED, UNDIVIDED" 242
XXXIII THE DECISIVE CAMPAIGNS OF THE CIVIL WAR 267
XXXIV MASS LABOR CONSCRIPTION; WAR WITH POLAND 291
XXXV THE LAST STAND OF THE WHITES 318
XXXVI THE REVOLUTION AND DAILY LIFE 335
XXXVII THE COMMUNIST PARTY: ORGANIZER OF VICTORY 359
XXXVIII THE DRIVE FOR WORLD REVOLUTION 378
XXXIX MINOR THEATRES OF REVOLUTION AND CIVIL
WAR 398
XL THE CRISIS OF WAR COMMUNISM: KRONSTADT
AND NEP 430
XLI THE REVOLUTION IN RETROSPECT 451
APPENDIX
Documents of the Revolution, June 9, 1918-March 23, 1921 465
BIBLIOGRAPHY 505
CHRONOLOGICAL TABLE 525
INDEX 535

ILLUSTRATIONS
Stalin Frontispiece
Facing
Original text of the decree creating the Red Army 26
Red sailors of the Black Sea Fleet under the command of the partisan
leader Mokrovsov 122
Red troops near Kazan in the summer of 1918 122
"Brothers," by P. Skala 136
A Red Army cart used in the civil war 136
Atamans Semyenov and Kalmikov, two leaders of the White Cossacks 178
A group of Ural Red partisans 178
Nestor Makhno, anarchist guerrilla leader of the Ukrainian peasants,
with members of his staff 226
Peasants greeting a White general with bread and salt 226
Stalin and Voroshilov 248
General Denikin reviewing his troops in the summer of 1919 248
Stalin reviewing the first cavalry army in 1919 270
The Soviet President, M. I. Kalinin, listening to the representations
of peasants in a Ukrainian village in 1920 270
General Sergei Budenny 286
The military Revolutionary War Council and the commanding offi
cers of the First Cavalry Army 294
Lenin addressing troops departing for the Polish front 294
General Baron Peter Wrangel 320
Civil war in Crimea in 1920 320
Intervention in the North in 1918 400
The presidium of the Congress of Peoples of the East held in Baku
in the summer of 1920 400
VU

MAPS
PAGE
German-Austrian occupation of Russia in 1918 9
The broken front between the Red Forces and the Checho-Slovaks
and the White Russian Forces in the summer of 1918 11
Denikin's line at the time of his furthest advance 147
Advance of the Red Armies against Kolchak in the summer of 1919 193
Advance of the White Armies in the Donetz Basin and sea terri
tory in the summer of 1919 243
Map of the Petrograd Region, illustrating the campaign of Yudenitch 273
Line of the front before the beginning of the Soviet-Polish campaign 299
Map of the Polish theatre of war, showing the decisive battle around
Warsaw 312
Wrangel's descents in the Kuban territory in the summer of 1920 326
The Perekop operations against Wrangel 331
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