Rusia

After the collapse of the tsarist empire, a devastating struggle took place in Russia between 1917 and 1921: an incompatible white alliance of moderate socialists and reactionary monarchists stood little chance against Trotsky's Red Army and Lenin's communist dictatorship. Terror begot terror, which in turn led to even greater cruelty on men, women and children. The fighting turned into a world war by proxy, as Churchill deployed weapons and troops from the British Empire, while the armed forces of the United States, France, Italy, Japan, Poland and Czechoslovakia played rival roles. Using the most up-to-date scholarship and archival research, Antony Beevor brings the whole picture together 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 in the field of war. battle or the woman doctor in a makeshift hospital.