{"product_id":"russia-revolution-and-civil-war-1917-1921-9780593493878","title":"Russia: Revolution and Civil War, 1917-1921","description":"\u003cb\u003e\"Riveting . . . There is a wealth of new information here that adds considerable texture and nuance to his story and helps to set \u003ci\u003eRussia \u003c\/i\u003eapart from previous works.\"\u003ci\u003e--The Wall Street Journal\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAn epic new account of the conflict that reshaped Eastern Europe and set the stage for the rest of the twentieth century. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eBetween 1917 and 1921 a devastating struggle took place in Russia following the collapse of the Tsarist empire. The doomed White alliance of moderate socialists and reactionary monarchists stood little chance against Trotsky's Red Army and the single-minded Communist dictatorship under Lenin. In the savage civil war that followed, terror begat terror, which in turn led to ever greater cruelty with man's inhumanity to man, woman and child. The struggle became a world war by proxy as Churchill deployed weaponry and troops from the British empire, while contingents from the United States, France, Italy, Japan, Poland, and Czechoslovakia played rival parts. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eUsing the most up to date scholarship and archival research, Antony Beevor assembles the complete picture in a gripping narrative that conveys the conflict through the eyes of everyone from the worker on the streets of Petrograd to the cavalry officer on the battlefield and the doctor in an improvised hospital.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAntony Beevor is the author of thirteen works of nonfiction, including \u003ci\u003eCrete \u003c\/i\u003e1941, which was awarded a Runciman Award; \u003ci\u003eStalingrad\u003c\/i\u003e, which won the first Samuel Johnson Prize, the Wolfson History Prize, and the Hawthornden Prize; and \u003ci\u003eD-Day\u003c\/i\u003e, which received the Prix Henry Malherbe in France and the RUSI Westminster Medal. Educated at the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst, Beevor served as a regular officer with the 11th Hussars, leaving the army after five years to write. He was knighted in 2017.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Viking","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50618358038802,"sku":"9780593493878","price":27.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_fc673e1f-4be1-4928-89da-e6530cb28fe3.jpg?v=1776157192","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/russia-revolution-and-civil-war-1917-1921-9780593493878","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}