Red and white
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Red and white
14.99 €
11.99 €
The Civil War ended a hundred years ago, but the passions over it have not subsided and are unlikely to subside in the foreseeable future. Making sense of the social catastrophe that befell them, each of the warring camps has produced its own historical narrative and its own cast of heroes. Today, almost all of them - both white and red - have lost their romantic halo: both opposing sides have demonstrated rare cruelty in this conflict. Oleg Budnitsky's book is dedicated to the heroes of the Civil War on both sides: it consists of biographical sketches of the leaders of the Red and White, collective portraits of the most famous military units of both, of "snapshots" of the Red Army in 1918 and the "white Crimea" in the fall of 1920, when the Russian Vendee was living its last days. The author contrasts the superficial view and demonization/romanticization of these historical personalities with an analysis of the motives and logic of the actions of key historical figures, an attempt to see them as living people, forced to make difficult political and moral choices, as well as to reap the fruits of their deeds and crimes. Oleg Budnitsky - Doctor of Historical Sciences, Professor, Director of the Institute of Soviet and Post-Soviet History at the National Research University Higher School of Economics, author of numerous studies on the history of the twentieth century.
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