{"product_id":"behind-the-front-lines-of-the-civil-war-political-parties-and-social-movements-in-russia-19181922-9780691604732","title":"Behind the Front Lines of the Civil War","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCountering 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\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgments  Abbreviations  Introduction   The Civil War and the Communist Myth  Western Myths  Historical Approaches  The Road to Civil War    1. The \"New Course\" That Failed (December 1918-April 1919)   Causes of Legalization  Legalization of the Opposition Parties  Lenin and Martov  Menshevik Policy Proposals  Legalization of the PSR  Debate on the Cheka  The End of the \"New Course\"    2. On the Internal Front: Enemies among the Workers   Strikes in Moscow  Strikes in Petrograd  Trouble in the Provinces  Strikes in Sormovo and Tver  Rebellions and Mutinies in Orel Province  The Astrakhan Tragedy    3. The White Tide   The White Tide in the East  Red Terror in the Urals  Peasant Rebellions on the Volga  The Whites' Breakthrough in the South  Decossackization  Makhno, Grigoriev, Zelenvi, and Others  Peasant Attitudes in Ukraine  Red Army Soldiers' Attitudes  The Three Blows to the Reds  Red Terror in Ukraine    4. On the Internal Front: The Greens   The Historical Setting  Policies of the Bolshevik Government  Requisition Detachments  Local Government in the Countryside  Peasant Attitudes  The Greens  The Greens Organization and Tactics  Bolshevik Antidesertion Measures  Peasant Uprisings    5. What Is to Be Done? Soviet Parties Face the Challenge of the Whites   The Menshevik Assessment of the Situation  The Right Mensheviks  The SRs and the White Threat  Fighting on All the Fronts    6. The Red Tide   Collapse of the Whites in the East  Collapse of the Whites in the South  The Fragmentation of Society    7. The End of Legal Opposition   The Mensheviks' New Platform  Successes and Perils  The Left SR Factions  The Balancing Act Breaks Down: The Affair with the British Delegation  Other Foreign Delegations  The Cheka Assault on the Opposition Parties    8. Workers under Militarized Labor   Theater of the Absurd  The Militarization of Labor  The Workers' Economic Situation  Workers' Responses  Elections  Strikes    9. The Green Tide   Bolshevik Intentions  Razverstka and Other Obligations  The Collection of Tribute  Informal, Invisible Peasant Government  Peasant Perceptions  Peasant Resistance: Central Russia    10. The Peasant War in Ukraine and Cossack Lands   Bolshevik Agrarian Policy in Ukraine  Occupation Policies in the Don Host and Kuban  Peasant Rebels: Ukraine  Don and Kuban Resistance  Subjugation  A Reign of Red Terror in Kuban    11. Sovietization of the Countryside: Tambov, Saratov, Tobolsk   Tambov  Lower Volga  The Urals and Siberia  Suppression    Epilogue: Regime in Crisis, 1921  Conclusion: Identity, Allegiance, and Participation in the Russian Civil War   Chronology of the Civil War  External and Internal Fronts  The White Movement  The Kadets  The Party of Socialist Revolutionaries  The Mensheviks  The Bolsheviks  The Greens  Scope of the Peasant War  Character of the Peasant War  Military Victory  Who Won? Who Lost?  Legacy    Bibliography  Index","brand":"Princeton University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49403943289175,"sku":"9780691604732","price":58.5,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780691604732.jpg?v=1730484956","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/behind-the-front-lines-of-the-civil-war-political-parties-and-social-movements-in-russia-19181922-9780691604732","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}