Captives of Revolution: The Socialist Revolutionaries and the Bolshevik Dictatorship, 1918–1923

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ISBN 13: 978-0-8229-4403-4 ISBN 10: 0-8229-4403-0 9 7 8 0 8 2 2 9 4 4 0 3 4 RUSSIAN HISTORY “Lucid and persuasive, Captives of Revolution explains brilliantly the weakness of the anti-Bolshevik opposition and the resultant Bolshevik victory in the Russian Civil War.” —Jonathan Daly, University of Illinois at Chicago “A carefully researched and nuanced portrait of the complex and dynamic political environment of revolution and civil war in Russia, one that is exceptionally well written and insightful for students and specialists alike.” —Erik Landis, Oxford Brookes University “A convincing new account of the Russian Civil War, placing the Socialist Revolutionaries at the center of political and military developments, and effectively conveying the complexity of the dilemmas they faced in trying to defend the revolution from Bolshevik usurpation. In this perceptive historical analysis, Smith reveals the idealistic but doomed efforts of the Socialist Revolutionaries to expose the fantastic fictions at the heart of Bolshevik revolutionary discourse.” —Cathy A. Frierson, University of New Hampshire PIT T SERIES IN RUS SIAN AND EAST EUROPEAN STUDIES University of Pittsburgh Press www.upress.pitt.edu ...