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Record Nr.

UNINA9910808214603321

Autore

Bisher Jamie <1956->

Titolo

White terror [[electronic resource] ] : Cossack warlords of the Trans-Siberian / / Jamie Bisher

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London, : Routledge, 2005

ISBN

1-135-76595-2

1-280-29137-0

9786610291373

0-203-34186-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (551 p.)

Disciplina

957.0841

Soggetti

Russia History

Siberia (Russia) History Revolution, 1917-1921 Protest movements

Russian Far East (Russia) History 1917-1921

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

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

Sommario/riassunto

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