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

• Autore: Bisher Jamie <1956->
• Pubblicazione: London, : Routledge, 2005
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (551 p.)
• Disciplina: 957.0841
• Soggetto geografico: Russia History; Siberia (Russia) History Revolution, 1917-1921 Protest movements; Russian Far East (Russia) History 1917-1921
• 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
• Titolo autorizzato: White terror
• ISBN: 1-135-76595-2; 1-280-29137-0; 9786610291373; 0-203-34186-4
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910808214603321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II