Experiencing Russia's Civil War: Politics, Society, and Revolutionary Culture in Saratov, 1917-1922

by Donald J. Raleigh

Book Overview

This book is the only comprehensive history of the total experience of the Russian Civil War. Focusing on the key Volga city of Saratov and the surrounding region, Donald Raleigh is the first historian to fully show how the experience of civil war embedded itself into both the people's and the state's outlook and behavior. He demonstrates how and why the programs and ideals that had propelled the Bolsheviks into power were so quickly lost and the...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0691113203
• ISBN13: 9780691113203
• Release Date: November 2002
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 464 Pages
• Weight: 0.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.2" x 9.2"