File spoon-archives/anarchy-list.archive/anarchy-list_2000/anarchy-list.0004, message 703


Date: Mon, 24 Apr 2000 16:01:00 -0700 (PDT)
From: Jamal Hannah <jah-AT-iww.org>
Subject: Re: Russian Civil War


On Tue, 25 Apr 2000, Daniel Marley wrote:

> Hey all,
> 
> Despite my numerous efforts today, my History teacher simply didn't want us 
> to learn anything but the basics, so I kept asking if summarizing the civil 
> war as Reds x Whites wasn't too careless, since what she calls whites 
> includes (I think) lots of different counter-revolutionary factions. This 
> generalization could lead people to believe all conflicts were set due to 
> the Red Guard's defense of the Revolution, and (white) other forces against 
> them.
> 
> If anyone has a good link, article, book recommendation about the Russian 
> Civil War, I'd love to get it. Thanx in advance
> 
> Daniel

There is history on the Russian Civil War in the Encyclopedia Britannica.
Things to search for on the web are as follows:

Social Revolutionaries
Social Democrats
Bolsheviks
Russian Anarchists
General Denikin
General Kolchak
General Wrangel

I have some info about Russian Anarchism's history at this web site:
http://iww.org/~jah/russanar.html

Here is the Encyclopedia Britannica entry on the Russian Civil War:
http://www.britannica.com/bcom/eb/article/0/0,5716,66150+1+64482,00.html

 - Jamal


   

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