Behind the Front Lines of the Civil War: Political Parties and Social Movements in Russia, 1918-1922

Countering the powerful myth that the civil war in Russia was largely between the Whites and the Reds, Vladimir Brovkin views the struggle as a multifaceted social and political process. Brovkin focuses not so much on armies and governments as on the interaction of state institutions, political parties, and social movements on both Red and Whit