https://bwdlibraries.spydus.co.uk/cgi-bin/spydus.exe/ENQ/WPAC/ALLENQ?QRY=GENSU%3A%20(SOVIET%20%2B%20UNION%20%2B%20HISTORY%20%2B%20REVOLUTION%20%2B%201917%20%2B%201921)&QRYTEXT=Subject%3A%20Soviet%20Union%20--%20History%20--%20Revolution%2C%201917-1921%20(Keywords)&SETLVL=SET&SORTS=MAIN.CREATED_DATE.DESC%5DMAIN.CREATED_TIME.DESC&NRECS=20 Spydus Search Results en © 2022 Civica Pty Limited. All rights reserved. https://bwdlibraries.spydus.co.uk/cgi-bin/spydus.exe/ENQ/WPAC/BIBENQ?SETLVL=&BRN=3414422 Between 1917 and 1921 a devastating struggle took place in Russia following the collapse of the Tsarist empire. Many regard this savage civil war as the most influential event of the modern era. An incompatible White alliance of moderate socialists and reactionary monarchists stood little chance against Trotsky's Red Army and Lenin's single-minded Communist dictatorship. Terror begat terror, which in turn led to even greater cruelty with man's inhumanity to man, woman and child. The struggle became a world war by proxy as Churchill deployed weaponry and troops from the British empire, while armed forces from the United States, France, Italy, Japan, Poland and Czechoslovakia played rival parts. Antony Beevor assembles the complete picture in a gripping narrative that conveys the conflict through the eyes of everyone from the worker on the streets of Petrograd to the cavalry officer on the battlefield. Between 1917 and 1921 a devastating struggle took place in Russia following the collapse of the Tsarist empire. Many regard this savage civil war as the most influential event of the modern era. An incompatible White alliance of moderate socialists and reactionary monarchists stood little chance against Trotsky's Red Army and Lenin's single-minded Communist dictatorship. Terror begat terror, which in turn led to even greater cruelty with man's inhumanity to man, woman and child. The struggle became a world war by proxy as Churchill deployed weaponry and troops from the British empire, while armed forces from the United States, France, Italy, Japan, Poland and Czechoslovakia played rival parts. Antony Beevor assembles the complete picture in a gripping narrative that conveys the conflict through the eyes of everyone from the worker on the streets of Petrograd to the cavalry officer on the battlefield.<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Author: </span>Beevor, Antony, 1946-<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Published: </span>London : Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2023.<br />576 pages : illustrations (black and white), maps (black and white) ; 20 cm<br /><br />Darwen Library - (Blackburn Libraries) - Adult Non-Fiction - 947.0841 - History - Available - 30303018949315<br /> https://bwdlibraries.spydus.co.uk/cgi-bin/spydus.exe/ENQ/WPAC/BIBENQ?SETLVL=&BRN=3243417 Between 1917 and 1921 a devastating struggle took place in Russia following the collapse of the Tsarist empire. Many regard this savage civil war as the most influential event of the modern era. An incompatible White alliance of moderate socialists and reactionary monarchists stood little chance against Trotsky's Red Army and Lenin's single-minded Communist dictatorship. Terror begat terror, which in turn led to even greater cruelty with man's inhumanity to man, woman and child. The struggle became a world war by proxy as Churchill deployed weaponry and troops from the British empire, while armed forces from the United States, France, Italy, Japan, Poland and Czechoslovakia played rival parts. Antony Beevor assembles the complete picture in a gripping narrative that conveys the conflict through the eyes of everyone from the worker on the streets of Petrograd to the cavalry officer on the battlefield. Between 1917 and 1921 a devastating struggle took place in Russia following the collapse of the Tsarist empire. Many regard this savage civil war as the most influential event of the modern era. An incompatible White alliance of moderate socialists and reactionary monarchists stood little chance against Trotsky's Red Army and Lenin's single-minded Communist dictatorship. Terror begat terror, which in turn led to even greater cruelty with man's inhumanity to man, woman and child. The struggle became a world war by proxy as Churchill deployed weaponry and troops from the British empire, while armed forces from the United States, France, Italy, Japan, Poland and Czechoslovakia played rival parts. Antony Beevor assembles the complete picture in a gripping narrative that conveys the conflict through the eyes of everyone from the worker on the streets of Petrograd to the cavalry officer on the battlefield.<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Author: </span>Beevor, Antony, 1946-<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Published: </span>London : Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2022.<br />576 pages : illustrations (black and white), maps (black and white) ; 24 cm<br /><br />Blackburn Library - (Blackburn Libraries) - Adult Non-Fiction - 947.0841 - History - Onloan - Due: 07 May 2024 - 30303018915746<br /> https://bwdlibraries.spydus.co.uk/cgi-bin/spydus.exe/ENQ/WPAC/BIBENQ?SETLVL=&BRN=1471979 The war to end all wars, people said in 1918. Not for long. By 1919, White Russians were fighting Bolshevik Reds for control of their country, and Winston Churchill (then Secretary of State for War) wanted to see communism 'strangled in its cradle'. So a volunteer R.A.F. squadron, flying Sopwith Camels, went there to duff up the Reds. 'There's a splendid little war going on', a British staff officer told them. 'You'll like it'. Looked like fun. But the war was neither splendid nor little. It was big and it was brutal, a grim conflict of attrition, marked by incompetence and corruption. Before it ended, the squadron wished that both sides would lose. If that was a joke, nobody was laughing. 'A Splendid Little War' tests the pilots' gallows humour in a world of armoured trains and elegant barons, gruesome religious sects and anarchist guerillas, unreliable allies and pitiless enemies. The war to end all wars, people said in 1918. Not for long. By 1919, White Russians were fighting Bolshevik Reds for control of their country, and Winston Churchill (then Secretary of State for War) wanted to see communism 'strangled in its cradle'. So a volunteer R.A.F. squadron, flying Sopwith Camels, went there to duff up the Reds. 'There's a splendid little war going on', a British staff officer told them. 'You'll like it'. Looked like fun. But the war was neither splendid nor little. It was big and it was brutal, a grim conflict of attrition, marked by incompetence and corruption. Before it ended, the squadron wished that both sides would lose. If that was a joke, nobody was laughing. 'A Splendid Little War' tests the pilots' gallows humour in a world of armoured trains and elegant barons, gruesome religious sects and anarchist guerillas, unreliable allies and pitiless enemies.<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Author: </span>Robinson, Derek, 1932 April 12-<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Published: </span>Long Preston : Magna, 2013.<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Published: </span>Long Preston : Magna, 2013.<br />480 pages (large print) : map.<br />R.F.C quartet<br /><br />Roman Road Library - (Blackburn Libraries) - Adult Fiction Large Print - F - General - Available - 30303014959904<br /> https://bwdlibraries.spydus.co.uk/cgi-bin/spydus.exe/ENQ/WPAC/BIBENQ?SETLVL=&BRN=844988 This account of the main political events of the period, gives special attention to the February and October revolutions. It explains the tensions within society that led to the popular upheavals of 1917, and shows what had become of these social movements by the end of the Civil War period. This account of the main political events of the period, gives special attention to the February and October revolutions. It explains the tensions within society that led to the popular upheavals of 1917, and shows what had become of these social movements by the end of the Civil War period.<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Author: </span>White, James D.<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Published: </span>London : Edward Arnold, 1994.<br />viii, 312p. : ill., maps ; 24cm.<br /><br />Blackburn Library - Basement stack - (Blackburn Libraries) - Adult Non-Fiction - 947.0841 Basement - General - Available - 30303013188125<br /> https://bwdlibraries.spydus.co.uk/cgi-bin/spydus.exe/ENQ/WPAC/BIBENQ?SETLVL=&BRN=800467 Destroys the myth of benevolent "Grandfather Lenin", showing how political violence and diplomatic double-dealing were part and parcel of the Soviet system from its outset in 1917. The old idea that Lenin created the communist system and Stalin took it to its extreme is shown to be flawed. Destroys the myth of benevolent "Grandfather Lenin", showing how political violence and diplomatic double-dealing were part and parcel of the Soviet system from its outset in 1917. The old idea that Lenin created the communist system and Stalin took it to its extreme is shown to be flawed.<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Author: </span>Volkogonov, Dmitriĭ Antonovich<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Published: </span>London : HarperCollins, 1994.<br />xxxix,529p.,[32]p. of plates : ill., 1facsim., 1map, ports. ; 24cm.<br /><br />Blackburn Library - Basement stack - (Blackburn Libraries) - Adult Non-Fiction - B/LEN Basement - Biography - Available - 30303013348851<br /> https://bwdlibraries.spydus.co.uk/cgi-bin/spydus.exe/ENQ/WPAC/BIBENQ?SETLVL=&BRN=536613 The story of Yuri Zhivago, physician and poet, is both a panoramic, epic portrait of a country in the throes of the most radical revolution in history, and an intense love story. The story of Yuri Zhivago, physician and poet, is both a panoramic, epic portrait of a country in the throes of the most radical revolution in history, and an intense love story.<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Author: </span>Pasternak, Boris, 1890-1960<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Published: </span>London : Vintage, 2002.<br />510 p. ; 20 cm.<br /><br />Mill Hill Library - (Blackburn Libraries) - Adult Fiction - F - General / From Page to Screen - Available - 30303018652356<br /> https://bwdlibraries.spydus.co.uk/cgi-bin/spydus.exe/ENQ/WPAC/BIBENQ?SETLVL=&BRN=98516 From the author of 'Schindler's Ark', the dramatic story of a Russian revolutionary's exile in Australia and his return to fight alongside Lenin in 1917. From the author of 'Schindler's Ark', the dramatic story of a Russian revolutionary's exile in Australia and his return to fight alongside Lenin in 1917.<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Author: </span>Keneally, Thomas, 1935-<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Published: </span>London : Sceptre, 2009.<br />388 p.<br /><br />Darwen Library - (Blackburn Libraries) - Adult Fiction - F - General - Available - 30303014480927<br /> https://bwdlibraries.spydus.co.uk/cgi-bin/spydus.exe/ENQ/WPAC/BIBENQ?SETLVL=&BRN=37028 'White Blood' is a compelling historical thriller set in Russia on the brink of the Revolution. 'White Blood' is a compelling historical thriller set in Russia on the brink of the Revolution.<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Author: </span>Fleming, James, 1944-<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Published: </span>London : Vintage, 2007.<br />361 p. ; 20 cm.<br /><br />Roman Road Library - (Blackburn Libraries) - Adult Fiction - F - General - Available - 30303015480058<br />