The Russian Civil WarThe Russian civil war was not simply a conflict between Red communists and White monarchists; rather, it involved a complex intertwining of military, social and political issues that were created or exacerbated by the Great War.
Table of Contents
1 Introduction
2 War as a Political Solution
2.1 “War to a Victorious Conclusion”: The sole Ideology of the Ruling Elite
2.2 “Turning an Imperialistic War into a Civil War”
2.3 The new Bolshevik Order: War as a Tabula Rasa
3 A War with Inverted Fronts
3.1 The Return of the World War in the East
3.2 Two Distinct War Experiences
3.3 The Hefty Legacy of the War’s Violence
4 The State and the Nation, from Collapse to Restoration
4.1 From Defeated Empire to the Communist Reunification of Russia
4.2 A Military Solution to the Eternal “Peasant Question”
4.3 The new Role of Propaganda in the War
