Antony Beevor on the Russian revolution
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Starlin and the Red Army in Warsaw
Starling was an important figure from the point of view of what the future held. alliances that he made within the party wereactually what brought him to power during this period. He played a critical, but probablyrather disastrous role in the invasion of poland because starlin refused to follow orders. Starling only man to get away with it, i think, by sheer brass neck when he was summoned back to moscow to sort of explain and he was pushed sideways for a bit.
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