Remembering a forgotten war

the long version

"The Russian Revolution triggered a vicious civil war that engulfed most of the collapsed Russian Empire. Remembering a Forgotten War is dedicated to the events that took place east of the Volga river.". "Using Soviet, Russian emigre, Czech and Western sources, the book traces the course of the Russian Civil War in Eastern European Russia and Siberia from its inception in May 1918 when the Czechoslovak Legion first raised the flag of rebellion against the Bolshevik regime and plunged Eastern European Russia and Siberia into a massive civil war. The book encompasses the major political, economic and military aspects of that war, and is the first work to contain meaningful biographical portraits of the war's principal protagonists.". "The book offers an account that encompasses all of the principal components of the war, including the struggle for dominance between the left and right factions of the anti-Bolshevik forces, the nature and efficiency of White and Red propaganda and, for the first time in English, details of the major military engagements and a full account of the Russian gold reserve that was seized by the Whites in Kazan. Carefully documented, the book also presents an analysis of why the Whites lost the civil war, and a commentary on what happened to the principal participants after it."--BOOK JACKET.