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UNINA9910808214603321 |
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Autore |
Bisher Jamie <1956-> |
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Titolo |
White terror [[electronic resource] ] : Cossack warlords of the Trans-Siberian / / Jamie Bisher |
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London, : Routledge, 2005 |
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ISBN |
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1-135-76595-2 |
1-280-29137-0 |
9786610291373 |
0-203-34186-4 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (551 p.) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Russia History |
Siberia (Russia) History Revolution, 1917-1921 Protest movements |
Russian Far East (Russia) History 1917-1921 |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Book Cover; Half-Title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Illustrations; Abbreviations and acronyms; Preface; Acknowledgments; 1 Prelude to terror; 2 Revolution and red terror; 3 Counterrevolution; 4 The white terror begins; 5 Rodomontade and girls with diamonds; 6 White terror on the magistral; 7 The white collapse begins; 8 Red onslaught; 9 White-Japanese resurgence, panic and disaster; 10 Götterdämmerung; 11 Diaspora, manchurian revival and legacy; Appendix 1; Appendix 2; Appendix 3; Glossary; Notes; Select bibliography; Index |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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This is the gripping story of a forgotten Russia in turmoil, when the line between government and organized crime blurred into a chaotic continuum of kleptocracy, vengeance and sadism. It tells the tale of how, in the last days of 1917, a fugitive Cossack captain brashly led seven cohorts into a mutinous garrison at Manchuli, a squalid bordertown on Russia's frontier with Manchuria. The garrison had gone Red, revolted against its officers, and become a dangerous, ill-disciplined mob. Nevertheless, Cossack Captain Grigori Semionov cleverly harangued the garrison into laying dow |
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