The Russell Cawthorn Collection
The Great War 1914-1918, and Associated Conflicts Official Histories Russian
RCC8158
The Russian Civil War, 1918-1921 An Operational Strategic Sketch of the Red Army's Combat Operations
ISBN
9781952715044
Purchase Price
£29.99 (new)
Date Purchased
September 10, 2023
Publisher
Casemate Academic (2020, Philadelphia & Oxford)
Notes
This book was originally published as "Grazhdanskaya Voina 1918 - 1921. Operativno Boyevykh Deistveii Krasnoi Armii" (Moscow-Leningrad: Gosudarstvennoye Voyemoye Izdatelstvo, 1930). Richard Harrison was both the translator and editor of this version, as here. The original editors were A.S. Bubnov, .S.S Kamenev, M.N. Tukhachevski, and R.P. Eideman. The book is the third of the three volume set published in 1928 to 1930 under the above title. This is still, despite its advanced age, the best and most objective Russian language treatment of the Civil War published under the Soviet regime. The first two volumes of the set are on, first, the Red Army's Combat Life, and secondly, the Red Army's Military Art. These would be of very little interest to the huge majority of military historians, as it is this volume which is the important one, and thus a great addition to the Collection. Nothing very much is known about the original Russian authors, save that they were part of the early Bolshevik Movement. Of the four, three were later executed during Stalin's military purge of 1927 - 1938, while the fourth (Kamenev) had the good fortune to die of natural causes in 1936, although he was posthumously denounced as "an enemy of the people",
9781952715044
Purchase Price
£29.99 (new)
Date Purchased
September 10, 2023
Publisher
Casemate Academic (2020, Philadelphia & Oxford)
Notes
This book was originally published as "Grazhdanskaya Voina 1918 - 1921. Operativno Boyevykh Deistveii Krasnoi Armii" (Moscow-Leningrad: Gosudarstvennoye Voyemoye Izdatelstvo, 1930). Richard Harrison was both the translator and editor of this version, as here. The original editors were A.S. Bubnov, .S.S Kamenev, M.N. Tukhachevski, and R.P. Eideman. The book is the third of the three volume set published in 1928 to 1930 under the above title. This is still, despite its advanced age, the best and most objective Russian language treatment of the Civil War published under the Soviet regime. The first two volumes of the set are on, first, the Red Army's Combat Life, and secondly, the Red Army's Military Art. These would be of very little interest to the huge majority of military historians, as it is this volume which is the important one, and thus a great addition to the Collection. Nothing very much is known about the original Russian authors, save that they were part of the early Bolshevik Movement. Of the four, three were later executed during Stalin's military purge of 1927 - 1938, while the fourth (Kamenev) had the good fortune to die of natural causes in 1936, although he was posthumously denounced as "an enemy of the people",
