An Anti-Bolshevik Alternative: The White Movement and the Civil War in the Russian North

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Liudmila Novikova Seth Bernstein

An Anti-Bolshevik Alternative

The White Movement and the Civil War in the Russian North

Liudmila Novikova, Seth Bernstein

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English

University of Wisconsin Press
30 June 2018

European history; Russian Revolution; Marxism & Communism

The traditional narrative of the Russian Civil War is one of revolution against counterrevolution, Bolshevik Reds against Tsarist Whites. Liudmila Novikova convincingly demonstrates, however, that the struggle was not between a Communist future and a Tsarist past; instead, it was a bloody fight among diverse factions of a modernizing postrevolutionary state. Focusing on the sparsely populated Arkhangelsk region in northern Russia, she shows that the anti-Bolshevik government there, which held out from 1918 to early 1920, was a revolutionary alternative bolstered by broad popular support.

Novikova draws on declassified archives and sources in both Russia and the West to reveal the White movement in the north as a complex social and political phenomenon with a distinct regional context. She documents the politics of the Northern Government and its relations with the British and American forces who had occupied the ports of Murmansk and Arkhangelsk at the end of World War I. As the civil war continued, the increasing involvement of the local population transformed the conflict into a ferocious """"people's war"""" until remaining White forces under General Yevgeny Miller evacuated the region in February 1920.

By: Liudmila Novikova
Translated by: Seth Bernstein
Imprint: University of Wisconsin Press
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 229mm, Width: 152mm, Spine: 18mm
Weight: 608g
ISBN: 9780299317409
ISBN 10: 0299317404
Pages: 344
Publication Date: 30 June 2018
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Liudmila Novikova is the deputy director of the International Center for the History and Sociology of World War II and Its Consequences at the Higher School of Economics in Moscow. She is the coeditor of two books, including Russia's Revolution in Regional Perspective. Seth Bernstein is an assistant professor of history at the Higher School of Economics in Moscow. He is the author of Raised under Stalin: Young Communists and the Defense of Socialism and the translator of Alexander Vatlin's Agents of Terror: Ordinary Men and Extraordinary Violence in Stalin's Secret Police.

Reviews for An Anti-Bolshevik Alternative: The White Movement and the Civil War in the Russian North

The White movement in North Russia had a character of its own, reflecting the particulars and peculiarities of the region, as this excellent new study reveals. --Revolutionary Russia Novikova's treatment of the Russian Civil War is both original and compelling. It will be an agenda-setting book in the literature on the period. Wonderfully written and well argued, it should appeal to those with interests in Russian history and twentieth-century history more broadly. --Peter I. Holquist, author of Making War, Forging Revolution