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Hardcover | 17 August 2000 | Edition Number 1

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Translated documents from Russian archives give fresh insight into the Russian civil war, a struggle whose outcome defined much of the history of our time. Areas covered include Soviet relations with the Don Cossacks, the problems of securing supplies for the Red Army, the issues of disloyalty of the two successful cavalry commanders, Colonel Mironov and Sergeant Budyonny as well as a selection of documents from White sources. Alongside those giving an overview of Soviet strategic planning, a good proportion of these documents come from much more humble sources allowing the reader to feel directly the emotions, the faith, the zeal - and sometimes the deceit - of people living through those crucial years.

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Preface	p. xi
Introduction	p. xiii
Conflicting views of the post-revolutionary struggle	p. xiii
Core and periphery: the conduct of the war	p. xiv
The Red Army: dilemmas of recruitment	p. xv
Reasons for success: the hand of historical inevitability	p. xvii
1918: Germans Rout Reds	p. 1
Yield nothing to the Germans	p. 1
Don Soviet Republic	p. 2
Nominal roll	p. 4
Individual appointments	p. 7
Disorders in Don Territory	p. 10
Nizhne-Chirskaya uprising (led by Rastegayev)	p. 14
Anti-Soviet rebellion, Salsk	p. 14
Paromonov miners	p. 15
Reds retreat in Ukraine	p. 16
Food Shortages	p. 19
Kornilov killed: Denikin heads Volunteer Army	p. 21
Deceiving the Germans	p. 23
1919: Whites	p. 26
White agents' instructions	p. 26
Establishments for artillery, medical, communications, armoured cars	p. 28
Shell Workshop in Taganrog	p. 34
Pay	p. 35
Housing	p. 35
Hygiene in Novocherkassk	p. 41
Conscription	p. 42
Supplies	p. 43
Finance	p. 46
Czechs	p. 50
Leather and winter clothing	p. 51
1919: Red strategy	p. 60
Situation reports	p. 60
Commissars versus commanders	p. 68
Military intelligence reports	p. 76
Cheka reports	p. 82
Personnel	p. 84
Supplies: January to June 1919	p. 86
Supplies: June 1919 to April 1921	p. 92
Large numbers of deserters	p. 97
Greens	p. 97
Bryansk rebellion	p. 104
1919: Who will win?	p. 106
Policy towards Cossacks	p. 106
February to May 1919	p. 106
June 1919	p. 116
Future policy for the Don	p. 123
Colonel Mironov and the Donburo	p. 134
Makarov reports to Cossack Section of VTsIK	p. 139
Makarov's letter to Lenin	p. 163
Petrograd: evacuate or fight in streets?	p. 164
Measures to combat Mamontov raid	p. 169
Voronezh: Whites demand surrender	p. 174
Beloborodov: importance of cavalry	p. 178
Sergeant Budyonny	p. 182
Fact and myth	p. 182
Voroshilov and RVS defend 1st Cavalry	p. 184
1919: Budyonny attacked commissar Chernov	p. 187
1920: Red Army take Rostov	p. 191
Cheka report on South Russia	p. 192
Cavalry take transport: Sokolnikov and Mironov cannot control	p. 195
Stalin and Ordzhonikidze protect Budyonny	p. 199
May: campaign against the Poles	p. 205
August: Zhilinsky criticizes 1st Cavalry	p. 207
August: 1st Cavalry versus Zhilinsky	p. 211
Stiffen political reliability	p. 218
September: Makhno's influence; commissar murdered	p. 218
October: moving to fight Vrangel; pogroms in Ukraine	p. 223
Measures to restore order	p. 225
Budyonny argues against Frunze's plan	p. 229
Trotsky: Budyonny to obey Frunze	p. 229
November: 1st Cavalry refuse to receive delegations	p. 234
December: reinvigorate the Communist Party	p. 235
Glossary and Abbreviations	p. 239
Some Persons Mentioned	p. 249
Select Bibliography	p. 256
Maps
River Don and River Volga	p. 260
Kuban' and Black Sea	p. 262
Ukraine to Polish border	p. 264
Index	p. 266
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