Baron Roman Fedorovich von Ungern-Sternberg (1885–1921) was a Baltic German aristocrat and tsarist military officer who fought against the Bolsheviks in Eastern Siberia during the Russian Civil War. From there he established himself as the de facto warlord of Outer Mongolia, the base for a fantastical plan to restore the Russian and Chinese empires, which then ended with his capture and execution by the Red Army as the war drew to a close.
In The Baron’s Cloak, Willard Sunderland tells the epic story of the Russian Empire’s final decades through the arc of the Baron’s life, which spanned the vast reaches of Eurasia. Tracking Ungern’s movements, he transits through the Empire’s multinational borderlands, where the country bumped up against three other doomed empires, the Habsburg, Ottoman, and Qing, and where the violence unleashed by war, revolution, and imperial collapse was particularly vicious. In compulsively readable prose that draws on wide-ranging research in multiple languages, Sunderland re-creates Ungern’s far-flung life and uses it to tell a compelling and original tale of imperial success and failure in a momentous time.
Sunderland visited the many sites that shaped Ungern’s experience, from Austria and Estonia to Mongolia and China, and these travels help give the book its arresting geographical feel. In the early chapters, where direct evidence of Ungern’s activities is sparse, he evokes peoples and places as Ungern would have experienced them, carefully tracing the accumulation of influences that ultimately came together to propel the better documented, more notorious phase of his career.
Recurring throughout Sunderland’s magisterial account is a specific artifact: the Baron’s cloak, an essential part of the cross-cultural uniform Ungern chose for himself by the time of his Mongolian campaign: an orangey-gold Mongolian kaftan embroidered in the Khalkha fashion yet outfitted with tsarist-style epaulettes on the shoulders. Like his cloak, Ungern was an imperial product. He lived across the Russian Empire, combined its contrasting cultures, fought its wars, and was molded by its greatest institutions and most volatile frontiers. By the time of his trial and execution mere months before the decree that created the USSR, he had become a profoundly contradictory figure, reflecting both the empire’s potential as a multinational society and its ultimately irresolvable limitations.
Автор: Edited by Rex A. Wade Название: Revolutionary Russia ISBN: 0415307481 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780415307482 Издательство: Taylor&Francis Рейтинг: Цена: 39800.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: This collection presents the major recent writings on the Russian Revolution and its context. It brings together key texts to illustrate new interpretive approaches and covers the central topics and themes.
Автор: Lara Douds, James Harris, Peter Whitewood Название: The Fate of the Bolshevik Revolution: Illiberal Liberation, 1917-41 ISBN: 1350117900 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781350117907 Издательство: Bloomsbury Academic Рейтинг: Цена: 95040.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: How did a regime that promised utopian-style freedom end up delivering terror and tyranny? For some, the Bolsheviks were totalitarian and the descent was inevitable; for others, Stalin was responsible; for others still, this period in Russian history was a microcosm of the Cold War. The Fate of the Bolshevik Revolution reasons that these arguments are too simplistic. Rather, the journey from Bolshevik liberation to totalitarianism was riddled with unsuccessful experiments, compromises, confusion, panic, self-interest and over-optimism. As this book reveals, the emergence (and persistence) of the Bolshevik dictatorship was, in fact, the complicated product of a failed democratic transition.Drawing on long-ignored archival sources and original research, this fascinating volume brings together an international team of leading scholars to reconsider one of the most important and controversial questions of 20th-century history: how to explain the rise of the repressive Stalinist dictatorship.
Автор: Frankel Название: Revolution in Russia ISBN: 0521405858 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780521405850 Издательство: Cambridge Academ Рейтинг: Цена: 53850.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: Nineteen specialists, from different generations, countries, and schools of thought, re-examine key issues in the 1917 Russian Revolution. They explore the unfolding crisis from different angles, describing the developments in specific locations and organisations, as well as emphasising Lenin as the leader of the Bolshevik party of the emergent Soviet state.
Автор: Abramovitch Название: The Soviet Revolution ISBN: 1138224758 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781138224759 Издательство: Taylor&Francis Рейтинг: Цена: 34700.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание:
This history, originally published in 1962, by the then lone remaining figure in the leadership of the Russian Social Democratic Party, is an important contribution to the understanding of the Soviet October Revolution of 1917. It covers in detail the period from the February revolution of 1917 until the outbreak of the Second World War, passing through the phases of the October Revolution, the Peace of Brest-Litovsk, the Civil War, the struggle for the leadership of the party and the triumph of Stalin.
Автор: Lukasz Adamski, Bartlomiej Gajos Название: Circles of the Russian Revolution: Internal and International Consequences of the Year 1917 in Russia ISBN: 1138385123 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781138385122 Издательство: Taylor&Francis Рейтинг: Цена: 122490.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: This volume provides the English-speaking reader with little-known perspectives of Central and Eastern European historians on the topic of the Russian Revolution.
Автор: Reese Roger R. Название: The Imperial Russian Army in Peace, War, and Revolution, 1856-1917 ISBN: 0700628606 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780700628605 Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan) Рейтинг: Цена: 56840.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: In December 1917, nine months after the disintegration of the Russian monarchy, the army officer corps, one of the dynasty’s prime pillars, finally fell—a collapse that, in light of World War I and the Bolshevik Revolution, historians often treat as inevitable. The Imperial Russian Army in Peace, War, and Revolution, 1856–1917 contests this assumption. By expanding our view of the Imperial Russian Army to include the experience of the enlisted ranks, Roger R. Reese reveals that the soldier’s revolt in 1917 was more social revolution than anti-war movement—and a revolution based on social distinctions within the officer corps as well as between the ranks.Reese’s account begins in the aftermath of the Crimean War, when the emancipation of the serfs and consequent introduction of universal military service altered the composition of the officer corps as well as the relationship between officers and soldiers. More catalyst than cause, World War I exacerbated a pervasive discontent among soldiers at their ill treatment by officers, a condition that reached all the way back to the founding of the Russian army by Peter I. It was the officers’ refusal to change their behavior toward the soldiers and each other over a fifty-year period, Reese argues, capped by their attack on the Provisional Government in 1917, that fatally weakened the officer corps in advance of the Bolshevik seizure of power.As he details the evolution of Russian Imperial Army over that period, Reese explains its concrete workings—from the conscription and discipline of soldiers to the recruitment and education of officers to the operation of unit economies, honor courts, and wartime reserves. Marshaling newly available materials, his book corrects distortions in both Soviet and Western views of the events of 1917 and adds welcome nuance and depth to our understanding of a critical turning point in Russian history.
Автор: Myklebost Kari Aga, Nielsen Jens Petter, Rogatchev Название: The Russian Revolutions of 1917: The Northern Impact and Beyond ISBN: 1644690640 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781644690642 Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan) Рейтинг: Цена: 89630.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: Investigates the impact of the Russian Revolution in Norway and Sweden, and explores the High North - the Revolution and Civil War in Northern Russia and the radicalization of the workers` movement of Northern Norway. Representations of the Russian Revolution at exhibitions and on the big screen are also discussed.
Автор: Daborn John Название: Russia: Revolution and Counter-Revolution 1917-1924 ISBN: 0521367905 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780521367905 Издательство: Cambridge Academ Рейтинг: Цена: 22440.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: This series has been devised for students who have to evaluate primary sources as part of the A- and AS-level examinations. This selection of contemporary documents on the Russian Revolution covers the critical events between 1917-1924.
Автор: Douds Lara, Harris James, Whitewood Peter Название: The Fate of the Bolshevik Revolution: Illiberal Liberation, 1917-41 ISBN: 1350117897 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781350117891 Издательство: Bloomsbury Academic Рейтинг: Цена: 29560.00 T Наличие на складе: Невозможна поставка. Описание: How did a regime that promised utopian-style freedom end up delivering terror and tyranny? For some, the Bolsheviks were totalitarian and the descent was inevitable; for others, Stalin was responsible; for others still, this period in Russian history was a microcosm of the Cold War. The Fate of the Bolshevik Revolution reasons that these arguments are too simplistic. Rather, the journey from Bolshevik liberation to totalitarianism was riddled with unsuccessful experiments, compromises, confusion, panic, self-interest and over-optimism. As this book reveals, the emergence (and persistence) of the Bolshevik dictatorship was, in fact, the complicated product of a failed democratic transition.Drawing on long-ignored archival sources and original research, this fascinating volume brings together an international team of leading scholars to reconsider one of the most important and controversial questions of 20th-century history: how to explain the rise of the repressive Stalinist dictatorship.
Автор: Rogger Название: Russia in the Age of Modernisation and Revolution 1881 - 1917 ISBN: 1138140023 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781138140028 Издательство: Taylor&Francis Рейтинг: Цена: 148010.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: Hans Rogger`s study of Russia under the last two Tsars takes as its starting point what the Russians themselves saw as the central issue confronting their nation: the relationship between state and society, and its effects on politics, economics and class in these critical years.
Автор: Ian D. Armour Название: A History of Eastern Europe 1918 to the Present: Modernisation, Ideology and Nationality ISBN: 1472508610 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781472508614 Издательство: Bloomsbury Academic Рейтинг: Цена: 34840.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: Why is Eastern Europe still different from Western Europe, more than a quarter-century after the collapse of Communism? A History of Eastern Europe 1918 to the Present shows how the roots of this difference are based in Eastern Europe's tortured 20th century.
Eastern Europe emerged in 1918 as the 'lands between', new states whose weakness vis-a-vis Germany and Soviet Russia soon became obvious. The region was the main killing-field of the Second World War, which visited unimaginable horrors on its inhabitants before their 'liberation' by the Soviets in 1945. The imposition of Communist dictatorships on the region, ironically, only deepened Eastern Europe's backwardness. Even in the post-Communist period, its problems continue to make it a fertile breeding-ground for nationalism and political extremism.
A History of Eastern Europe 1918 to the Present explores the comparative backwardness of Eastern Europe and how this has driven strategies of modernisation; it looks at the ways in which the region has served as a giant test-tube for political experimentation and, in particular, at the enduring strength of nationalism, which since 1989 has re-emerged more virulent than ever.
This book in the essential textbook for any student of 20th-century Eastern Europe.
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