Will Nicoll

Reds against Whites

The decade of internecine carnage that followed the 1917 October revolution was one of the bitterest and — until Jonathan D. Smele’s latest book — most neglected periods of Russian history

  • The ‘Russian’ Civil Wars 1916–1926: Ten Years that Shook the World

    Jonathan D. Smele

    Hurst & Co, pp. 480

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