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" White terror : "
Jamie Bisher.
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BL
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1001524
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b755894
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Bisher, Jamie,1956-
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White terror : : Cossack warlords of the Trans-Siberian /\ Jamie Bisher.
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London ;New York :: Routledge,, 2005.
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1 online resource (xix, 452 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates) :: illustrations, maps
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0203341864
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: 1280291370
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: 6610291373
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: 9780203341865
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: 9781280291371
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: 9786610291373
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0714656909
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 402-440) and index.
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| Contents
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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
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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.
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HISTORY.
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Protest movements.
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Russian Far East (Russia), History, 1917-1921.
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Siberia (Russia), History, Revolution, 1917-1921, Protest movements.
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Russia (Federation), Russian Far East.
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Russia (Federation), Siberia.
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957.08/41
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DK265.8.S5B57 2005eb
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