Antony Beevor on the Russian revolution
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The Trouble With the Whites
The trouble with the whites was that they were, when one talks of the whites, mostly former generals and commanders from the first world war. But there were also the socialist revolutionaries who are poor by the appall by the dictatorship which had been created in petrograd. They made an uneasy alliance with groups of white officers in that particular area. And so as a result, there was almost continual war. E briefly referred to the involvement of international powers in this conflict. Were they sincere? Did they just erthey not need to be involved at all?
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